The Los Angeles Unified School District on Tuesday, with a 5-2 vote on a new dairy contract, became by far the largest district in the country to remove flavored milk from its menus, part of its effort to make school food healthier and help combat childhood obesity. The milk issue has overshadowed other changes in [...]
Mass-produced tomatoes have become redder, more tender and slightly more flavorful than the crunchy orange “cello-wrapped” specimens of a couple of decades ago, but the lives of the workers who grow and pick them haven’t improved much since Edward R. Murrow’s revealing and deservedly famous Harvest of Shame report of 1960, which contained the infamous [...]
Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences has unveiled an industry first: saturated-fat-free Omega-9 Sunflower Oil. Introduced at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New Orleans, the all-natural oil is touted as having no trans fats and being high in heart-healthy monounsaturated fats. The oil is in line with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans [...]
