Food & beverage processors have made good on pledges to cut sodium, according to a 15-year study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine, part of the Journal of the American Medical Assn.

The amount of sodium that households acquired from packaged food & beverage purchases decr...

Researchers are the first to discover Ontario-grown red onions have the strongest cancer-fighting power

The next time you walk down the produce aisle of your grocery store, you may want to reach for red onions if you are looking to fight off cancer.

In the first study to examine h...

Making a living raising cattle isn't as simple as just buying a herd and turning it out to pasture. Cattle require specific diets to maintain proper nutrition and weight gain. And how to do this in the most effective and efficient way possible has interested both ranchers and researchers for gene...

Regional differences in fish stock status in Europe and overfishing in the Mediterranean are the two main reasons why larger fish types are threatened with extinction.  

Writing in Nature Ecology and Evolution, an international team of scientists have identified the fish species part...

Roquette will invest €40 million to increase the capacity of its Northern France pea processing site in Vic-sur-Aisne in a bid to meet growing global demand for plant-based protein.

This is the second major investment the company has made this year, after announcing in January plans ...

Despite many studies looking at which bread is the healthiest, it is still not clear what effect bread and differences among bread types have on clinically relevant parameters and on the microbiome. In the journal Cell Metabolism on June 6, Weizmann Institute researchers report the results of a c...

When you dine on curry and baked apples, enjoy the fact that you are eating something that could play a role starving -- or even preventing -- cancer.

New research from The University of Texas at Austin identifies several natural compounds found in food, including turmeric, apple peels an...

New study indicates that drinking even a few cups a day may prevent hardening of the liver

Chronic liver diseases rank as the 12th cause of death worldwide and many of these disorders are associated with unhealthy lifestyles. Conversely, a healthier lifestyle can help prevent or reverse l...

Calls for scientists to help tackle human rights violations in the seafood industry feature in a paper presented at the United Nations Oceans Conference in New York.

The paper calls on scientific community, along with governments and businesses, to help ensure seafood is sourced without h...