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Cartoon on the Box? Your
Kid Will Like the Cereal

study says

Mar 8, 2011 1:52 PM CST

Cartoon on the Box? Your Kid Will Like the Cereal

Children preferred the taste when there was a penguin on the package

(Newser) - Want to get your kids eating brussels sprouts? Try putting them in a box with a cartoon character on the front. A new study found that children thought cereal tasted better when it came out of a box with penguins from Happy Feet on the front, USA Today reports. The...

Here's Your Acronym
for a Healthier Diet: ERF

mark bittman

Feb 9, 2011 1:52 PM CST

Here's Your Acronym for a Healthier Diet: ERF

As in Eat Real Food, writes Mark Bittman

(Newser) - America's taking baby steps toward eating a diet of real food, writes Mark Bittman in the New York Times. He rounds up a trio developments—the USDA urging people to eat less , Michelle Obama teaming up with Walmart , and Oprah challenging her staff to go vegan for a week. All...

Here's a 'Food Manifesto'
for the Nation

mark bittman

Feb 2, 2011 12:07 PM CST

Here's a 'Food Manifesto' for the Nation

Mark Bittman: It includes better food education for children

(Newser) - The US needs a modern version of old-school home ec classes, writes foodie Mark Bittman. "When people cook their own food, they make better choices," he writes in the New York Times . Let's provide food education for kids and cooking classes for any adults who want them, Bittman...

Nestle's Plan to
Trim Your Waist:
Trick Your Belly

Jan 25, 2011 12:47 PM CST

Nestle's Plan to Trim Your Waist: Trick Your Belly

Scientists pursue fullness-inducing food

(Newser) - Scientists at Nestle are working on food to fool our stomachs. They’re studying the “gut brain”—which tells us when we’re hungry and when we’re full—in an effort to develop products that will keep us feeling full longer and thus reduce overeating, the Wall ...

Forget Trucks; Let's Shove Food Cross-Country in Tubes

UK group proposes 'transport Internet'

(Newser) - In the future, we won’t truck our food across the country—we’ll shoot it through underground tubes at more than 60 miles an hour. Or at least, that’s the dream of Foodtubes, a UK-based group of academics, engineers, and project planners. It may sound like science fiction,...

What It's
Like to Kill
Your Own
Turkey

Nov 21, 2010 3:22 PM CST

What It's Like to Kill Your Own Turkey

At some farms, you can see firsthand where your meat comes from

(Newser) - Ariel Kaminer recently enjoyed the most flavorful turkey she’s ever eaten. And maybe this is why: She slaughtered it herself. Kaminer visited Madani Halal, a family-run slaughterhouse in Queens that is among the “small but significant number of farms” that allow customers to get truly up-close-and-personal with their...

Why Airline Food Is So Bland

Oct 15, 2010 6:40 AM CDT

Why Airline Food Is So Bland

Background noise diminishes sense of taste

(Newser) - Airline food is notoriously bland because of engine noise, not a lack of spice, according to new research. Volunteers who ate sweet or salty foods while listening to silence through headphones found the flavors more intense than a group of volunteers who heard white noise. The latter group found the...

Our Food Labels
Need to Tell Us
the Bad News

Oct 14, 2010 2:30 AM CDT

Our Food Labels Need to Tell Us the Bad News

...says a new report that wants calories, fat listed on the front of packages

(Newser) - It's time for food manufacturers to come clean about what's in their products, a new report on food labeling suggests. In addition to trumpeting the good (high fiber!) food labels should fess up to the bad ('high sodium!') on the front of the package, argue experts from the...

Why I Finally Love Farmed Fish

Opinion

Sep 5, 2010 8:37 AM CDT

Why I Finally Love Farmed Fish

Former skeptic Josh Ozersky sees benefits to the earth

(Newser) - Not even a fish-loving foodie can justify the environmental cost of wild-caught salmon . "If I could, I would only eat wild," writes Josh Ozersky for Time. "But I can't in good conscience." Sure, farmed salmon's "taste is duller, the flesh flabbier, the finish forgettable."...

6 Truly Gross
Restaurant
Sandwiches

Aug 16, 2010 2:37 PM CDT

6 Truly Gross Restaurant Sandwiches

Massive amounts of cheese, anyone?

(Newser) - KFC's Double Down was just the beginning. The Stir lists five more truly disgusting (not to mention unhealthy) sandwiches being served at restaurants near you:

Denny's Fried Cheese Melt: The restaurant took the grilled cheese sandwich and added more cheese to it, in the form of four fried mozzarella sticks

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6 Weird, Pricey Foods

civet poop coffee, anyone?

Aug 7, 2010 2:00 PM CDT

6 Weird, Pricey Foods

How much would you pay for a nice bowl of bird spit?

(Newser) - You may have heard of kopi luwak, the coffee brewed from civet poop that sells for $30 a cup. In case you’d like some more bizarre, extravagant food to go along with that…interesting-sounding cup of coffee, The Frisky lists five ideas:

Bird Spit Soup: Made from the nests

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$8 for Dozen Eggs?
Why It's a Good Deal

Aug 4, 2010 7:20 PM CDT

$8 for Dozen Eggs? Why It's a Good Deal

Food is too artificially cheap, argues Michael Pollan

(Newser) - Foodie reformer Michael Pollan continues his "pay more, eat less" crusade in an interview with the Wall Street Journal , arguing that $8 for a dozen eggs should be standard fare. It sounds absurd, "but when you think that you can make a delicious meal from two eggs, that'...

10 Celebs' Odd Eating Habits

cockroaches, yum

Aug 4, 2010 11:23 AM CDT

10 Celebs' Odd Eating Habits

Bet you never thought of rice as a gateway drug

(Newser) - Cockroaches, butterflies, peanut-butter-and-bacon sandwiches: Celebrities sure do have some odd eating habits. The Daily Beast , with the help of Matthew and Mark Jacob’s What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame, lists a few:

Angelina Jolie: She’s tried bee larvae, crickets, and cockroaches—and the

...

That Ballpark Hot Dog
Could Kill You

Jul 30, 2010 2:15 PM CDT

That Ballpark Hot Dog Could Kill You

ESPN gives more info than you wanted on stadium food safety

(Newser) - If you’d like to enjoy the next hot dog you eat at a baseball game, don’t read on. ESPN reviewed health department inspection reports for the North American MLB, NFL, NHL, and NBA venues and found that 28% had been cited for a “critical” or “major”...

Men Avoid 'Girlie' Foods,
Go for 'Guy' Meals

Jul 21, 2010 1:44 PM CDT

Men Avoid 'Girlie' Foods, Go for 'Guy' Meals

Study suggests that society drives home differences early

(Newser) - Yeah, yeah: Real men don't eat quiche. Now, new research from Northwestern University shows men really do shun foods perceived to be "girlie." Researchers gave male and female diners choices including tried-and-true guy grub—like heavy gravy and then options with a more female-friendly flare (say, white wine...

101 Innovative Grill Recipes

no boring burgers here

Jun 30, 2010 11:39 AM CDT

101 Innovative Grill Recipes

Put down that pack of hot dogs and try some of these

(Newser) - This Independence Day, don’t limit yourself to burgers and dogs on the grill. Mark Bittman offers up 101 innovative ideas for your backyard BBQ, from meat and veggies to desserts, in the New York Times :

Tomatoes: Grill ripe tomatoes until hot and lightly charred; serve with olive oil, salt,

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Pesticide Patrol:
The Dozen Worst
Fruits and Veggies

Pesticide Patrol: The Dozen Worst Fruits and Veggies

Soft, thin skin more susceptible to chemicals

(Newser) - Fruits and vegetables with soft skin are more likely to absorb pesticides than others, a new food safety investigation finds. Dubbing them America's "dirty dozen," the Environmental Working Group says they contain as many as 47 to 67 pesticides per serving even after being washed with a USDA-approved...

10 Unfortunate Food Names

sounds tasty

Apr 29, 2010 12:22 PM CDT

10 Unfortunate Food Names

Why wouldn't you want to eat something called Spotted Dick?

(Newser) - Food: It seems relatively inoffensive, but it has a history of names that are racist, shocking, or just plain gross. Salon recalls the 10 worst names in food history:

Spotted Dick: An English pudding filled with currants (hence the “spotted”). Why “dick”? Wikipedia notes it may

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Patent Fight Over
Miracle Food
for Malnutrition

Apr 9, 2010 8:15 AM CDT

Patent Fight Over Miracle Food for Malnutrition

Competitors say they can save millions with cheaper alternative to French peanut paste

(Newser) - A peanut paste that has been hailed as a miracle food for treating malnutrition is the subject of a patent battle, the BBC reports, with competitors charging the patent prevents millions of desperately ill children from receiving treatment. The French company that makes Plumpy’nut, which one competitor says is...

15 Really, Really Awful New Potato Chip Flavors

Food Review

Apr 5, 2010 11:25 AM CDT

15 Really, Really Awful New Potato Chip Flavors

A scathing look at Walkers' faux-international flavors

(Newser) - Walkers Crisps—the British version of Lay’s—is celebrating the World Cup the best way it knows how: by launching a whopping 15 new flavors of potato chips, each modeled after a different World Cup nation. There’s just one problem, writes Charlie Brooker of the Guardian : They’re...