Food & Nutrition

Human nutrition periodically undergoes profound transformations. Salt, once scarce and costly as both a seasoning and a preservative, became a central economic commodity, even lending its name to cities such as Salzburg.

So, you celebrated the new year with a glass of the bubbly. But was it the right kind of glass? A little background first. Champagne is produced mainly from black grapes in the Champagne region of France.

Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 151 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

People domesticated sugarcane around 8,000 years ago in Papua New Guinea, and by about 5000 years later, Indian producers had developed methods to extract solid sugar.

Today (December 16) is National Chocolate-Covered Anything Day. Before getting into anything profound, let’s cover a little science.  ⇒Pop quiz (multiple choice)

For MAHA, the findings provide the kind of broad, cross-disciplinary evidence that Secretary Kennedy's advocacy efforts have yet to put forward.

National Egg Cream Day is March 15th – a mere 111 days away. Since you can't get started too early with these things, let's get going. But first...   Are you a New Yorka?

For celebrities and athletes, supplements are often an easy money maker. Athletes capitalize on their public image of strength, endurance, vitality, and athletic prowess by marketing a small pill, powder, or gummy as the key to their success.

MAHA's leader, RFK Jr., has directly targeted the GRAS pathway. He laid out his intentions in a post on X, emphasizing the need for stricter pre-market regulation and post-market assessment. 

Thoughts about food are a regular part of human cognitive processes, sparked by hunger, health, social expectations, and cultural norms.