In 2017, and to much fanfare, menu labeling for calorie counts began to be mandated in national chain restaurants. I mean shouldn’t consumers have the knowledge needed to make healthy eating choices outside the home? It just makes sense that caloric information on menus will help consumers limit food intake to stay within daily energy…

American diets have gotten a little healthier, but still fall short of federal government recommendations for healthy eating, finds an analysis of nationally representative interview data from 1999 to 2016. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzes a total of 43,996 adults’ one-day diet logs collected over the study period. The analysis focuses on the…

Where can you get the most nutritious food on the planet? It may be surprising to learn that it can be found growing on a kitchen counter-top near you! Most people know that sprouts are the healthy origin of vegetables and occasionally encounter them as a garnish. What they likely don’t know, is that sprouts…