Study: Daily avocado consumption improves attention in persons with overweight, obesity
Credit: Graphic by Michael Vincent An avocado a day improves the ability to focus attention for overweight or obese adults, ...
Tag: Food/Food Science
Project aimed at improving Latino population’s access to healthy local foods receives funding
UC Riverside School of Medicine to lead engagement project in eastern Coachella ValleyCredit: Ann Cheney, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- ...
New study confirms value of family meals
Propels family meals movement as Americans celebrate National Nutrition MonthCredit: Food Marketing Institute Foundation A new study published in the ...
Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6 million to study weedy invader
Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University Many farmers struggle with an enemy that looks like a friend. Agricultural weeds that are close ...
UMD researcher establishes a new viable CRISPR-Cas12b system for plant genome engineering
New publication in Nature Plants details the first application of CRISPR-Cas12b in plants, providing gene editing, activation, and repression capabilities ...
More taxpayers’ money for the environment and public benefit
EU Common Agricultural Policy: More than 3,600 researchers call for science to be taken into considerationCredit: Sebastian Lakner The European ...
Food scientists slice time off salmonella identification process
Credit: Mars Global Food Safety Center ITHACA, N.Y. - Researchers from Cornell University, the Mars Global Food Safety Center in ...
World’s smelliest fruit could charge your mobile phone
Pungent produce packs an electrical punchCredit: University of Sydney Imagine if we could use naturally-grown products, like plants and fruit, ...
Virginia Tech, University of Virginia work to safeguard US tomato industry
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech entomologist Muni Muniappan has warned of Tuta absoluta's likely arrival into the United States since ...
New technology helps reduce salt, keep flavor
Credit: WSU Eating too much salt can have significant negative health implications, and modern processed food typically contains high levels ...
With 30,000 surveys, researchers build the go-to dataset for smallholder farms
Farmer input is essential to tackling global challenges of climate change, rural poverty and nutrition. A new data collection tool ...
To bee, or not to bee, a question for almond growers
Credit: Drs. Saez and Negri Pollination by bees is vital even when crops are assumed to be pollinator independent. That's ...
5,000-year-old milk proteins point to the importance of dairying in eastern Eurasia
Recent findings push back estimates of dairying in the eastern Steppe by more than 1,700 years, pointing to migration as ...
How pest management strategies affect the bottom line
The economics of pest controlCredit: Ronald Stephenson A study out of Mississippi State University evaluated the impact insect pest management ...
Discovering what makes durian stink
First evidence of rare amino acid in plantsCredit: Martin Steinhaus Freising/Germany - Researchers at the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology ...
Big data helps farmers adapt to climate variability
Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - A new Michigan State University study shines a light on how big ...
Scientists discover new clue behind age-related diseases and food spoilage
Exotic molecule linked to ozone also at work in chronic diseases and cancers, and even the decomposition of foodCredit: Marilyn ...
The University of Tennessee System announces One Health Initiative
Effort to focus on animal, environmental issues with implications for human healthCredit: Tory Salvador, UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University ...
Tart cherry juice concentrate found to help improve endurance exercise performance
Credit: Cherry Industry Administrative Board Montmorency tart cherry juice has gained a reputation as a recovery drink among elite and ...
Eliminating viruses in our food with cranberries and citrus fruit
A team of Canadian researchers is developing a treatment combining fruit extracts and irradiation to prevent outbreaks of foodborne infectionsCredit: ...
