This year, new research in food science and health uncovered surprising benefits in everyday ingredients — and took a hard ...

From takeout containers and tea bags to bottled water, gum, and even cheese, these were the most-read microplastic stories of ...

“This work is unique in its scale of assessment of food additives in a large number of study participants, and also puts added focus on the recognition by the International Agency for Research on ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. More than 3,600 chemicals ...

Back in the 1800s, obesity was almost nonexistent in the United States. Over the last century, it's become common here and in other industrialized nations, though it remains rare among people who live ...

From freshly baked bread to a cup of coffee, food is a sensory experience that connects us all. When it comes to how our food is made, however, we rarely focus on the science that is used to create it ...

A new study examined whether neighborhood food access in early life is associated with trajectories of child body mass index and obesity risk. Study results show that neighborhood food access matters.

When the FDA announced in January, before President Joe Biden’s term ended, that it would ban a dye called red dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs, the federal agency cited just one 1987 study on ...

Scientists at Washington State University are looking at what goes into that choice, contributing data to research to ...

In the U.S., more than a third of the food supply goes uneaten. The waste happens at multiple levels in the production and supply chain and is a big contributor to climate change. Food that ends up ...

The United States generates more food waste than all but two countries. To address this, the federal government set a goal to cut food waste in half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, to about 164 ...

Researchers in Italy have recently explored the beneficial effects of a low-carbohydrate organic Mediterranean diet on male fertility. Their study is published in the journal Current Research in Food ...