Advocates working to increase access to fruits and vegetables in America's food deserts report that the growing popularity of Double Up Food Bucks programs is helping curb the $160 billion spent on illnesses related to lack of healthy food.
Laborers process dried vanilla pods at the Vaniacom factory on July 29th, 2018, in Moroni, Comoros.
In one tiny city in Alaska, hunters are working to provide the local elderly population with access to traditional foods. By making that effort, they have become a model for a person-centered approach to care.
Oscar Ekponimo has created a program that notifies retailers in real-time when their food items are approaching expiry and lets them initiate discounts on them.
Due to a mix of factors around the issue there is a risk we may be moving toward a non-ideal situation for animals and humans alike.
New research finds calorie counts can be effective—if the figures are properly placed.
The calorie counts you've long seen at Starbucks will be at every chain restaurant starting today.
They founded California's first commercial abalone fisheries, but after a few short decades, they were forced out by institutional racism. Let's not repeat the same mistakes with current and future immigrants.
Insects are poised to reinvent industrial animal agriculture.
What happens when a grocery store opens in an inner-city neighborhood?
The city's cultural and economic revival remains segmented along stark racial and class lines.
Quick slim downs, cleanses, celebrity diets, and all the other diet fads have been around for a lot longer than you'd think.
If other immigrant groups are any indication, supermarkets' embrace of different cuisines could mean trouble for small South Asian grocers.
Limited resources combined with the rate at which the number of people is increasing makes the need for solutions especially urgent.
A new study argues population booms drove the advent of agriculture in prehistoric North America.
Husband-and-wife team Cristina Martinez and Ben Miller are moving beyond barbacoa to fight for the undocumented workers in kitchens across the city.
Dietary changes and simple stone tools may have helped our early ancestors chew more efficiently.
On the paradox of unanimity and how, if nothing else, it could be saving you money on your grocery bill.
New research provides more evidence linking cocoa consumption to enhanced cognitive functioning.
It's almost like whoever designed the layout of the store is actually trying to trick us into staying inside of it longer.
A new study shows the brain's learning mechanisms make distractions like snack foods—or drugs—harder to avoid.
Basically, everything you want to munch on is bad for you.