Recalls of contaminated foods in the U.S. are usually the result of a voluntary recall by the seller. ( Photo: Wikociewie/Wikimedia Commons) How Risky Foods Get Recalled and How to Shop and Cook Smarter Given the number of fresh foods shipped around the country, it’s no surprise that from time to time a hazardous one slips... News 12 Oct 2025 | 10:52
Apples are good for you! ( Photo: George Chernilevsky/Wikimedia Commons) Apples Are Woven Into Our Culture—And Taste Great Too! Everyone, it seems, loves the apple whether it was the Beatles naming their recording studio after it in 1968 or Steve Jobs,... News 02 Oct 2025 | 05:30
Bugs Bunny has spent a lifetime munching on his primary source of nutrition: carrots. So far as we know, his skin never turned yellow. ( Photo: Kogo/Wikimedia Commons) Carrots Are a Great Health Food (Just Don’t as Many as Bugs Bunny) Don’t tell the Looney Tunes cartoonists who have been drawing Bugs Bunny for decades, but if you eat too many carrots, the... News 13 Sep 2025 | 09:33
White rice is nutritionally weak, but most white rice is fortified with B vitamins and minerals. ( Photo: Anna Fordesiak/Wikimedia Commons) Rice Is Nice...for Your Waistline and It’s Cholesterol-Free Rice is the world’s third-most-produced cereal crop following corn and wheat, and with all its health benefits, there is... News 10 Aug 2025 | 03:11
Supermarkets are putting healthier food in easy reach of consumers. ( Photo: Erik Calonius/EPA/Wikimedia Commons) The Rise of Modern Supermarkets Puts Health Choices at Your Fingertips Supermarkets are actively responding to the demand for healthier choices from consumers, say industry officials. And some... News 18 Jul 2025 | 01:23
While water in plastic bottles is more convenient, New York City tap water is most likely purer, recent studies suggest. ( Photos: B Bart Flickr (right) Kritiaan (left)/Wikimedia Commons) Tap Is Tops When It Comes to NYC Drinking Water The Environmental Protection Agency has issued some good news for thirsty New Yorkers. Our tap water, the EPA said in a June... News 12 Jun 2025 | 05:14
A statue of Hippocrates, in the Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Before he died in 377 BCE, Hippocrates said food should be your medicine. Now a new study is trying to document that. ( Photo: Paul R. Burley/Wikimedia Commons) Food as Medicine: New Study Aims to Find Links That Can Aid Recovery from Heart Failure More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, declared, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine... News 09 Jun 2025 | 01:31
After 16 years in development, Del Monte last year introduced a new pineapple called Ruby Glow, which is red on the outside, with the same sweet fruit inside. Only 5,000 were available last year, and the cost was a sky-high $400. ( Photo: Fresh Del Monte) Pineapple: the Healthy Fruit that Is Still Being Reinvented The pineapple is a sunny summer treat, and, surprisingly for a fruit that has been around so long, there are big changes... Food & Drink 17 May 2025 | 03:01
What do you know? It’s the vinegar, not the pickles that count. ( Photo: Alexas_Fotos/Pixabay20) Pick a Pack of Pickles for a Picker Upper, But It’s the Vinegar That Counts If eating pickles peps you up, a small but intriguing study at Arizona State University suggested that what’s doing the job... News 01 Mar 2025 | 01:10
Get them while you can: Scientists worry that a fungus that wiped out an earlier line of bananas in the 1950s is once again threatening the survival of existing lines. But they think they have a cure this time. ( Photo: Dainis Graveris/Wikimedia Commons) Banana in Case It Goes Extinct The original banana, known as Gros Michel, AKA Big Mike, went extinct in the 1950s. And now scientists warn that some of... News 20 Feb 2025 | 05:09
Tender, juicy roast turkey - the main attraction - with old-fashioned gravy, cranberry sauce, smashed potatoes, baked green beans, and more offers quite a feast. But if you enjoy the food feast intelligently you can avoid the holiday weight gain. ( Photo: Ms Jones/Wikimedia Commons) Let’s Talk Turkey About Gobbling on Thanksgiving! Oh no, waist-watchers: here comes Thanksgiving dinner, the Big Kahuna of diet-busting meals! It is the unofficial beginning... News 25 Nov 2024 | 04:40
An estimated 157 million Americans use chewing or bubble game, according to statistics ( Photo: Jim McKluskey/Wikimedia Commons) Here’s Something to Chew On It’s hard to pop this bubble. Over 157.23 million Americans are predicted to chomp on $3.5 billion dollars’ worth of bubble... News 13 Sep 2024 | 04:00
Salt with a shaker. ( Kadri Damla/Wikimedia Commons) A Salty Story Like its crystals, salt is multifaceted. It’s a seasoning, a time-honored home remedy, and for some of us, a potential medical... News 06 Sep 2024 | 01:46
Oweston sting fish for sale at Tsukiji Fishmarket, Tokyo, Japan. ( Michael Maggs / Wikimedia Commons) Fish Facts, or Oil’s Well that Ends Well—Probably Dietary supplements are serious subjects. Case in point: Fish oil. By 1970, as the Mayo Clinic notes, nutritionists knew... News 26 Jul 2024 | 04:01
Bread of the whole grain variety is scoring high on the nutrition scale. Photo: Klaus Höpfner /Wikimedia Commons Bread Finally Getting the Respect It Deserves on the Nutrition Front The next time you put two slices of bread together for a sandwich, say a silent thank you to the Greeks and Egyptians. The... News 24 May 2024 | 02:07
