Burgers remain a top food item for many folks for a number of reasons—childhood cravings, financial value, quick satiety, and convenience when considering food options on the…
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How’d This Get on My Plate: Lunch
Lunch: the meal that is your “little slice of heaven” during your work day; the meal many of our parents packed up for us during our school…
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Fast Take: Ultraprocessed Foods and Mortality
Highlights Foods described as ultraprocessed contain high levels of refined carbohydrates, added sugar, saturated fats and sodium, and are low in dietary fiber. Ultraprocessed foods can also…
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Eyes on the Plant-based Food Prize
We’ve talked recently about the growing popularity of plant-based food diets. Plant-based diets encompass not only vegetarian and vegan diets, but also diets that focus on an…
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Fast Take: The EAT-Lancet Report on Sustainable Diets
Key Highlights Report states that feeding 10 billion people by the year 2050 with a healthy and sustainable diet will be impossible without changing eating habits, improving…
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How’d This Get on My Plate: Breakfast
Good ol’ breakfast—it’s the meal many of us eat to start off our days in a healthy way. There are many great options for our first meal…
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Taking Steps to Recycle Packaging Waste
I’ve come to the realization that we cannot live without packaging. But I do concern myself with where packaging goes after I have used it. Many of…
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Questions and Answers: Animal Antibiotics, Antimicrobial Resistance and Impact on Food Safety
For more than 50 years, veterinarians and producers have administered antibiotics to food animals, primarily poultry, swine, and cattle, mostly to fight or prevent animal diseases. The…
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Revisiting the Food Innovation Summit
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, families travel far and wide to be together and share a great meal. As we make our menu lists and prep…
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