#Nutrients

If I wore a hat it would be off to the authors of this astonishing paper: “Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products.” They used public databases to rank food products by a combination of nutritional and four environmental factors: greenhouse gas emissions, land use, water

Nutritionism is a term coined by the Australian sociologist, Gyorgy Scrinis, and popularized by Michael Pollan.  It means reducing the value of a food to its content of specific nutrients. This General Mills cereal advertisement is a perfect illustration of how nutritionism works. Here is one

Quinoa has been a staple in the Andean diet for more than 6,000 years and it has quickly become a superfood after 2013 was declared the International Year of Quinoa. What is