Health

Sometimes picking a snack for your child (or yourself) is more challenging than planning an actual meal. To help guide you through this culinary...

Everyone agrees that a healthy diet includes plenty of vegetables, is low in added sugar, and cuts out artificial trans fats. Beyond that, it’s...

Consumers may not consciously differentiate nutrition and health claims on foods in the way that regulatory experts do, new research reports.

Prebiotics are only able to help stabilize the intestinal flora of horses to a limited degree. Before they can reach the intestines, commercially available...

A new advanced line of rice, with higher yield, is ready for final field testing prior to release. On average, it has a protein...

Being undernourished or overweight are no longer separate public health issues. A new article details how more than one in three low- and middle-income...

Researchers identified significant differences at the epigenetic level -- the chemical tags in DNA that help regulate gene expression -- between two clinically distinct...

Researchers have now developed a new way to fortify staple foods with these micronutrients by encapsulating them in a biocompatible polymer that prevents the...

Rapeseed doesn't just contain oil but high-quality protein, too. However, protein extracts from rapeseed have an intense, bitter off-taste. Researchers have now identified the...

Researchers have found a new answer to an old question: how can overnutrition during infancy lead to long-lasting health problems such as diabetes?