The best and worst meat replacements for your health, your wallet and the planet – new research
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Growing crops in the dark with “electro-agriculture” can revolutionize food production and free up over 90 percent of farmlands
In the future, photosynthesis could be replaced with electro-agriculture, a process that is four times more efficient and may do ...
Avocados are bad and vegans are just ridiculous — the excuses we make to keep eating meat
Do you use any excuses to avoid reducing your meat consumption?
One change could reduce our global emissions by 17% — but we won’t do it
Your jaw is the single most destructive force on this planet. We can make it better.
Most of the food British teens eat is ultra processed
Consumption of ultra-processed foods was highest in young teenagers and teens from deprived areas.
Scientists make ‘no-melt’ ice cream that stays solid for hours at room temperature
Scientists found that adding natural-occurring antioxidants dramatically reduces ice cream melting and dripping.
One in eight adults actually love a sour taste, study says
Some people have a special place in their hearts for sour foods, but until now their taste has been ignored ...
AI is starting to make coffee — and it’s really good at it
It's only natural that something like this would happen in Finland.
Living near pubs, bars, and fast-food restaurants is bad for your heart
Exposure to ready-to-eat food outlets seems to be linked to a higher risk of heart failure.
This fasting-like diet makes you biologically younger and prevents several diseases
It's not that expensive and only needs to be done 2 or 3 times yearly but has been shown to ...
Shifting to Healthier Eating Can Add a Decade to Your Life
We already know that food has a big impact on our lives — but this is something else.
This Halloween, do the right thing — fight food waste and eat your pumpkin
The scariest monster this Halloween is food waste.
Making plant proteins be meat-like and juicy with one simple ingredient: water
For environmentally-friendly nutrition, this could be an important breakthrough.
Who invented pizza? A trip down memory lane
Grab a slice!
How long can we survive without food or water?
This will vary a lot from person to person, but the ‘rule of three’ is generally valid: 3 days without ...
Why the White House wants nutrition labels on the front of packaging — and why this matters
The Biden administration is keen to pay more attention to the health impacts of food.
EU wastes much more food than all the food it imports, even amid soaring food prices
Campaigners ask to halve food waste by 2030 to tackle the climate crisis and improve food security.
Chinese astronauts grow rice and cress in space, on the Tiangong 1 station
More and more experiments show that food can be grown in space.
Most Americans overestimate how healthy their diets are; the most accurate are those with poor-quality diets
Such findings can help improve research into diet quality in the future, and give us all some food for thought.
We all tend to lie about our food consumption, regardless of how much we weigh
This could be due to multiple reasons and have wide consequences
Simple restaurant menu tweaks can encourage people to make more eco-friendly choices
Our food choices can make a big difference for climate change
Replacing one in five steaks with mycoprotein can halve deforestation by 2050
It's a very slight change for a huge payoff. It's also quite tasty!
What does it mean if your poop is green – do you need to see a doctor?
Many different factors can change your stool color, including diet, lifestyle, and health issues.
Compound droughts risk destabilizing the global food supply if we keep burning fossil fuels
Empty tables are a chilling prospect.
Facebook ads can be used to gauge cultural similarity between countries
Social media knows everything about us.
Shifting to a healthier diet can increase your lifespan by up to a decade
Many of these changes are also eco-friendly and save on cash.
Just one extra hour of sleep can help overweight people eat less
If you struggle with weight loss, simply getting more sleep could do wonders.
Making diets more sustainable could be easier than we think
All it takes is one small change.
Cases of eating disorders have doubled in the US during the pandemic
Being stuck inside, stressed, did not help us develop healthy eating habits.
Healthier, more nutritious diets have a lower environmental impact — at least in the UK
Eating better would benefit you and the planet, too.
Why kids hate broccoli: a foul combination with oral bacteria
Enzymes in the plant and oral bacteria can produce stenchy sulfurous compounds.
Unprocessed plant-based food keeps your heart healthier at any age
Fewer burgers, more broccoli.
Microbes and solar energy could make finally make the food on our plates sustainable
Microbes could produce 10 times more food than plants, researchers find.
It burns so good: why do some people like spicy food?
I get flustered just looking at a pepper so I’m not one of them.
What makes ‘superfoods’ so super? New studies dive deep
Scientists have found insights about what makes honey and mangoes so healthy.
A third of all food is threatened by climate change
Like food? Then you should probably start paying more attention to climate change.
Spanish companies team up to create the first paella-cooking robot
Maybe, uhm, robots aren't so bad after all.
Consumers would pay more for sustainably produced food, study finds
Time to say goodbye to monocultures and encourage crop diversification.
Post-exercise hunger could thwart your efforts to lose weight
Physical effort can increase our appetite quite strongly, a new paper explains.
Cold sandwiches are calorie traps — don’t fall for it
Yes sir, one tuna sub. Anything else? Of course.
Scientists reveal the secret that makes red wine pair so well with cheese, meats, and other fatty foods
A perfectly paired wine can make food taste better -- but the reverse is also true.
Study reveals the climate footprint of the food sector. And it’s a lot
Our food habits are largely unsustainable.
What is tempura?
You batter pay attention if you don't know what this is.
New approach to lab-grown meat creates more realistic, more customizable steaks
I’m down for a bite -- or twenty.
New research closes in on the causes of irritable bowel syndrome
We knew it happened in the gut, but we didn’t know why.
Ancient teeth confirm: people have been trading internationally for thousands of years
A banana can teach you much about history.
Cooking actually accounts for a lot of our emissions. Here’s how that could be improved
Changing cooking methods can make a real difference.
The food industry is skewing research, but we’re onto them now
Oh, food, don't betray me too!
No-meat diets won’t fix the climate — too many poor countries can’t adopt them
The choice between feeding your family and saving the climate isn’t easy to make -- but it will always go ...
Food production threatens the Paris Climate Agreement
Emissions of nitrous oxide are on the rise, and farming is behind it.
