Tag: nutrition

Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, today announced the availability of a suite of digital tools for providers across the country to enhance collaborative care, promote healthy choices, and deliver nutritious foods to patients and their families.

Wegovy. It sounds like the name of a loathsome delicacy from some exotic land. Or one of those wacky new pharmaceuticals. In fact, it’s the latter.

Our era may see a shift in public nutrition policy like the one launched against cigarette smoking in the 1960s.

California Walnuts is raising awareness of the health benefits associated with omega-3 alpha-linoleic acid (ALA), while spotlighting the many ways that the versatility of walnuts can help increase the intake of omega-3 in the diet.

National Watermelon Promotion Board (NWPB) recently partnered with Nutrition Impact LLC on a research project to “determine intake of watermelon and assess association with diet quality, energy and nutrient intake, and physiological parameters in children and adults."

As the International Fresh Produce Association continues its nutrition policy and advocacy to create more opportunities for fresh fruits and vegetables across federal feeding and nutrition programs, it recently responded to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Food and Drug Administration on proposed revisions to the USDA Food and Nutrition Service Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food packages as well as the FDA’s ongoing efforts to define “healthy” for nutrient content claims.

The National Grocers Association (NGA), the national trade association representing the independent supermarket industry, sent a letter to White House officials asking for a convening of stakeholders to address the growing problem of the exclusion of independent grocers and their customers from important health benefit programs funded by health insurance plans.

The International Fresh Produce Association has released its first state of the industry report, a document that is worth unpacking.

The proposed restructuring of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on January 31 by FDA commissioner Robert Califf is important enough that it’s worth uncracking the bureaucratese.

It can be hard to see how fresh fruits and vegetables fit into the global food picture. Reports from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) often give a huge number of facts about major crops such as grains, soybeans, and oilseeds, but usually don’t mention fresh produce.