Discarded fruit and vegetable parts offer overlooked fiber benefits
Most of us routinely discard the peels, skins, stalks, and seeds of fruits and vegetables at mealtime. But…
Starving flying foxes target banana, berry farms on NSW Mid North Coast
Tens of thousands of bananas will not make it onto supermarket shelves as flying foxes decimate crops on…
Shared meiosis proteins show surprising functional differences across animals
Every egg cell and sperm cell depends on meiosis, a tightly choreographed process in which chromosomes find their…
Fruits and vegetables 50% less nutritious than in the 1960s, new study finds
Be sure to drink your ovaltine. Fruits and vegetables are only half as nutritious as they were 60…
Sticky situation: FDA weighs in on gummy dietary supplements
In a perspective published in The Journal of Dietary Supplements, a team of scientists from the Office of…
What four pregnancy eating patterns revealed about mothers and newborns
Distinct eating patterns emerged among pregnant women, alongside striking differences in maternal health and subtler signals in how…
What 107 professional MMA fighters actually ate before and after weigh-in
A detailed look at what professional fighters eat and drink across the critical hours from their final weight…
NOW’s testing of vitamin C gummies on Amazon returns ‘deeply disappointing results’
This is NOW’s 24th round of product policing since it initiated its testing program in 2017 to evaluate…
A New Reason to Use the Whole Watermelon: USDA Adds Official Nutrition Profile for Watermelon Rind
WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. — Watermelon’s often-overlooked rind is getting its due. The fruit’s outer layer now has an…
Study Points to Sugar, Not Just Meat, as Fuel for Human Brain Evolution
A team of researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Glasgow argues that dietary sugars,…
New research explains how embryos establish germline cell boundaries
Every embryo of an organism that reproduces sexually faces an early and consequential decision: which of its cell…
Carbohydrate foods needing clearer nutrition guidance
Consumers and expert-derived nutrition ratings often disagree on the healthfulness of everyday carbohydrate-rich foods, and a new belief-mapping…