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Mar. 24, 2022 Restricting supermarket placement of less healthy items and increasing the availability of healthier alternatives in these stores may be promising interventions to encourage healthier purchasing ...
June 27, 2023 Researchers have studied the kinetic and thermodynamic processes of sugar crystallization in the making of fondant. They combine a controlled kneading machine with light microscopy to precisely ...
Sep. 12, 2023 Saltwater taffy, a product that contains no actual saltwater, is neither fully solid nor fully liquid. Researchers put the sticky, sweet confection to the test to understand the physics behind this ...
June 6, 2022 Seeing a warning icon on a restaurant menu may help consumers identify the high amounts of added sugar hidden in menu items -- and it may even convince them to reach for healthier items like water, ...
Sep. 20, 2022 Researchers have made a breakthrough -- discovering new, natural sweeteners in citrus for the first ...
Apr. 18, 2023 Added-sugar warning labels reduced the likelihood that consumers would order items containing high amounts of added sugar in an online ...
Apr. 12, 2023 Single-use hard plastics are all around us: utensils, party decorations and food containers, to name a few examples. These items pile up in landfills, and many biodegradable versions stick around for ...
Dec. 1, 2021 Two new studies based in Seattle provide evidence that public policies to reduce consumption of added sugars through taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages are effective and ...
Aug. 24, 2021 Stingless bees are found throughout tropical and subtropical parts of the world and produce significantly less honey than their European honey bee counterparts (Apis mellifera) which are the ...
Aug. 17, 2022 A new analysis suggests that the Nutri-Score -- a label indicating the overall nutritional quality of a food product -- can counteract the misleading effects of sugar ...