Drinking sugary beverages every day nearly triples the risk of stroke and dementia
In Massachusetts, researchers reported that Framingham Heart Study data has shown that frequent consumption of sugary beverages such as sodas and fruit juices is...
South Dakota moves to ban cultivated meat
In South Dakota, lawmakers have advanced a bill prohibiting the production, sale and distribution of cultivated meat. The Amendment, added to HB1109, was passed...
Nestlé invents a new sugar crystal so that less tastes like more
In Switzerland, Nestlé scientists created a novel structural form for sugar that can be produced using all natural ingredients. At a microscopic level, the change...
Full Harvest fights food waste
In California, Full Harvest, a marketplace for excess produce that would otherwise go to waste, closed an $8.5 million Series A round led by...
Reckitt Benckiser acquires Mead Johnson Nutrition to promote worldwide growth
In Illinois, Mead Johnson Nutrition Company has agreed to be acquired by Reckitt Benckiser Group plc, the world’s leading consumer health and hygiene company,...
Natural additives eliminate nitrites in British bacon
In the UK, the cancer risk in bacon, the beloved British fry-up, will be slashed next month with a technological breakthrough that eliminates dangerous...
Caveman diet: Wooly mammoth burgers could soon be on the menu
In Belgium, a meat alternative startup is expanding its product R&D efforts from the more conventional beef, chicken, pork and lamb varieties to wooly...
Sweet Defeat lozenge stops sugar cravings in seconds
In New York, Sweet Defeat LLC, launched Sweet Defeat, a patented lozenge that is clinically proven to reduce consumption of and desire for high...
TerraVia burns the boats and sets off for the Land of Übernutrition
At the outset of his historic Conquest, Cortés gathered the men and burned the boats.
As TerraVia jettisons its break-out industrial product line and...
“Eat a Swede” satirically promotes cultivated human meat
In France, a playfully macabre short film encouraging the consumption of people—specifically, Swedish people, going by the film’s title “Eat a Swede” and tagline...