25-Jan-2022

One third of the world's food is wasted each year, with around 7.6 million tonnes wasted in Australia alone. Harnessing this food waste is a major challenge that Murdoch research is working to address. If food waste was a country it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter, behind the ...

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NIH trial found experimental therapy also reduced most children’s sensitivity to peanut

25-Jan-2022

A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that giving peanut oral immunotherapy to highly peanut-allergic children ages 1 to 3 years safely desensitized most of them to peanut and induced remission of peanut allergy in one-fifth. The immunotherapy consisted of a daily ...

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6 tips on how to do it

25-Jan-2022

Beer makes you fat? "No!" says beer sommelier Tom von Bieren, "Beer contains relatively few calories. You just have to keep a few tips in mind, and it's even an incentive to slim down." The barley cold bowl has fewer calories than, for example, wine, apple juice and low-fat milk. There it makes ...

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24-Jan-2022

The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), America's largest grocery retailer, today announced its 2022 Food Trends Report, which predicts emerging food trends, consumer behaviors and popular items for the year ahead. This fourth-annual report centers on the continued dominance of at-home meals, powered by ...

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Snacking preferred over traditional mealtime for third consecutive year

24-Jan-2022

Mondelēz International today announced the launch of the third annual State of Snacking™ report, a global consumer trends study examining year-over-year insights on how consumers make snacking decisions. This year’s report shows mindfulness and well-being considerations are increasingly important ...

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24-Jan-2022

A greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet which had been assessed through an index made with biomarkers during a 20-year scientific monitoring is associated with a lower mortality in adults over 65. This is one of the main conclusions of a study led by Cristina Andrés-Lacueva, head of the ...

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Samantha Kleinberg tapped to analyze data from diverse populations to find causal relationships between diets and specific health outcomes

24-Jan-2022

A significant barrier to personalized nutrition is that when we learn the effects of a diet, we do not know to whom these results apply. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Stevens Institute of Technology AI expert Samantha Kleinberg will try to better understand the relationship ...

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The $8.23 million NIH grant will support an innovative personalized health study to predict individual responses to food and dietary patterns

24-Jan-2022

National nutrition guidance is on track to become much more individualized, thanks to research that will soon begin at theJean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging(HNRCA) at Tufts University, as part of a five-year national effort supported by the National Institutes of Health ...

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Iconic brand launches global platform to empower tens of millions of people's sense of belonging by 2025, helping them connect and have fun together

24-Jan-2022

M&M'S, a brand from the Mars, Incorporated portfolio, announces its global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong. The new brand purpose will further advocate for a diverse and inclusive society. For more than 80 years, M&M'S has been bringing people together through the ...

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Nutrition facts, ingredient lists, and allergens—all FDA-required information on food labels—are frequently absent when shoppers buy food online

21-Jan-2022

Online food retailers do not consistently display nutrition information on their websites—and U.S. laws are lagging behind in mandating the same labeling required for foods sold in brick-and-mortar stores, according to a new analysis by researchers from the NYU School of Global Public Health and ...

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