While we often recommend our safe food-handling practices like using clean utensils and storing foods properly to help reduce the risk of foodborne illness, we thought for this year’s…
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Safety
Sesame: The Next Major Food Allergen?
Ahh, sesame. We all know those pale, tiny seeds that sit on top of hamburger buns, speckling them with bursts of flavor and texture. But sesame is…
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Food Allergy or Intolerance: What’s the Difference?
You’ve started to experience stomach pain and discomfort every time you eat one of your favorite foods. One day you stop and ask yourself, “Wait, is this…
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Farmers’ Market Food Safety 101
With the ushering in of warmer weather and more sunny days come thoughts of fresh produce and access to many of our favorite fruits and vegetables from…
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Get the Lead Out
Spring is in the air—and so are the annual testing lab reports on everything from cars to washers and dryers and even lead in fruit juices. That…
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Food Allergies Throughout the Lifespan
Thirty-five years ago, the prevalence of food allergies was approximately one percent. Today, approximately 32 million Americans are living with food allergies. With these rising rates, it’s…
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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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Five Food Trends To Watch in 2019
Five Food Trends To Watch in 2019 Consumers Adopting an Origins-Focused Approach When Buying Food (Washington, D.C.) — While consumers cite broad aspects like taste, price and…
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What is Xylitol?
Highlights: Xylitol is a type of carbohydrate called a sugar alcohol, or polyol. Xylitol occurs naturally in many fruits and vegetables. It is also commercially produced from…
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