Recent Posts Tagged With 'vegetables'

• Processed Food Makers Cut Corners As Prices Rise [Highlight HEALTH]

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 21:19 in Chocolate, cocoa, nutrition, vegetables, fruits, labels, food and nutrition, fuel costs, nutritional content, flavonoid, processed food, food prices

  Do you read labels at the supermarket? If you do, you may soon notice changes in the ingredients of some of the foods you buy. Food makers are quietly substituting cheaper ingredients in processed foods to offset the high price of commodities. The Wa...

• Did You Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables Today?

  Posted on Tuesday July 15th, 2008 at 09:30 in vegetables, fruits, questionnaire, bias, food and nutrition, self-reporting, 5-a-day, dietary intake, dietary intervention, food frequency, intervention effects, nutritional intervention

  Answering seems simple enough. For many people however, the need to avoid criticism and seek praise causes them to respond in a manner consistent with expected norms. Self-reports of dietary intake can be biased by these tendencies, tainting consumpt...

• The Upside of High Food Prices [Highlight HEALTH]

  Posted on Thursday June 26th, 2008 at 00:04 in vegetables, gas prices, fruit, produce, food and nutrition, fuel costs, food prices, sustainable food, high-fructose corn syrup, locally grown, locally raised, eating healthier

  As the price at the gas pump continues to climb, so does the cost of diary, grain and meat products. Why? Because increasing fuel prices make it more expensive to grow, harvest, transport, process and package food. Indeed, food costs rose by 4 percen...