Tag: Food
A shrinking fraction of the world’s major crops goes to feed...
Deepak Ray, University of Minnesota
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Rising competition for many of the world’s important...
Universal access to free meals at schools can lead to lower...
Michelle Marcus, Vanderbilt University and Katherine G. Yewell, University of Louisville
The Research Brief is a short take about...
America’s cost of ‘defending freedom’ in Ukraine: Higher food and gas...
William Hauk, University of South Carolina
Americans may be tempted to view the war in Ukraine as an unfortunate,...
How does excess sugar affect the developing brain throughout childhood and...
Lina Begdache, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Parents often stress about their kids’ sugar intake, but it can be hard to know...
A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins...
Stephen Wooding, University of California, Merced
The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet is so visceral, food...
The magnificent history of the maligned and misunderstood fruitcake
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Nothing says Christmas quite like a fruitcake – or, at the very least, a...
How Cup Noodles became one of the biggest transpacific business success...
Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
See a container of Cup Noodles at a convenience store and you might think...
Colorful sweets may look tasty, but some researchers question whether synthetic...
Lorne J. Hofseth, University of South Carolina
Early-onset colorectal cancer incidence among the young, defined as those under age...