Volume 75, No. 6
As the number of U.S. consumers vaccinated against COVID-19 increases, some pandemic-driven behaviors are changing while others persist. For a comprehensive look at emerging demographic trends driving consumer behavior, check out the “Demographic Disruption” feature.
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How startup Orbisk uses artificial intelligence to help restaurants reduce food waste back of house.
Consumer misunderstanding around “best by” dates contributes to food waste, experts agree. Retail practices, manufacturers’ decisions, and lack of regulations aren’t helping.
U.S. President Joseph Biden opened the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health on September 28, with a look back at the first such event, hosted by President Nixon more than a half-century ago.
A core theme at last week’s White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health was the need to develop policies that more intimately tie nutrition and food security to healthcare—both as preventative and treatment measures.
This column explores the sustainability and economic aspects of producing and processing alternative protein products, whether plant-based, algal, cellular, or insect.
A visually oriented overview of chocolate ingredient trends.
Charity Valid Nutrition is driving down the cost of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) with a formulation based on locally grown soy, maize, and sorghum.
Leading voices in diet, health, and food security reflect on what the White House Conference accomplished, where it will lead, and what could have been better.
In an unpredictable world rocked by climate change and ever scarcer resources, Patrick Lockwood-Taylor is focused on driving change and advancing a sustainability agenda at the ag and health-care giant.
From a processed foods comeback to breaking food system silos and addressing food and nutrition security, our science and policy experts identify top science of food trends.
Hear from three current Board Members about why their participation is so valuable.
Newly released IFT report examines science of food compensation and career path trends
The rule uses labeling to advance a national nutrition strategy.