MetaFilter posts tagged with food and nutrition

Eat around the banana... It's just empty vitamins.

sloe — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:58:21 -0800

Are Froot Loops a Smart Choice? The New York Times questions new food labeling system. The Smart Choices food labeling program (product database) is a voluntary opt-in nutritional labeling program initiated by the non-profit Keystone Group (as mentioned on this subsite) and administered by the NSF and the American Society for Nutrition. Proponents argue that a simple green check-mark is a straight forward alternative to what some consider confusing labeling (a sentiment shared by some within the industry as well). In the words of Mark Andon, Ph.D., ConAgra Foods vice president of Nutrition: "But it’s not always easy to identify smarter food and beverage choices. The Smart Choices Program symbol can help; its stringent standards, plus the fact that it eliminates the need for multiple, often confusing symbols across the food industry, are unprecedented.” However, critics claim it is overly simplistic and question the validity of a criteria which designates Froot Loops - as well as some other questionable products - as smart choices (Froot Loops nutritional information).

You can take my Pop-Tarts from my cold, dead hands

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:53:18 -0800

Junk Food in Real Life

Take your stinking cheese off me, you damned dirty ape!

Smedleyman — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:20:26 -0800

Gorilla Sandwich. (Probably not what you think - SFW) You can make your own (with cheesy 70s porn music). Serendipitously, someone at Gourmet Gorilla turned me on to these.

Eating tasty raw animals

Not Supplied — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:15:51 -0800

Eat food. Mostly animals. As much as you want. And don't cook em

Teff!

Pants! — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:31:47 -0800

Teff, a native Ethiopian grain, has been cultivated there for at least 4,000 years. Its seeds are smaller than pinheads, and can be easily scattered. Many Ethiopians eat it two to three times a day in injera bread, porridge or, of course, alcohol (pages 3-4). The grain is gluten-free and is full of essential amino acids, calcium, and other vitamins and minerals. It has a short growing season and tolerance for marginal soils and drought or flood conditions, but its low comparative yield optimal sunlight conditions, and labor intensive harvest may limit the spread of the grain.

You Are What You Grow

dw — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:09:04 -0800

Obesity and the Farm Bill. Michael Pollan continues his series of articles on the state of the American food supply by looking at the connection between the obesity epidemic and the federal farm bill (NYT, reg. required, blah blah blah). Previously.

Isotopically delicious!

greatgefilte — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:44:24 -0800

One burger, double neutrons, hold the quarks. Mikhail Shchepinov believes that eating food enhanced with more isotopes can lead to longer lives. What could go wrong?

"Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food."

jaronson — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:27:46 -0800

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

You Feel What You Eat

Gyan — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:38:08 -0800

Feeding Minds - the impact of food on mental health

MegaFeeders

Gyan — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:43:29 -0800

Obesity: Epidemic or Myth?

Cereal Killer

ph00dz — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:25:44 -0800

Cereal + Milk = Liquid Cereal.

No more knuckle sandwiches in the cafeteria.

Gyan — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:55:21 -0800

Diet and behavior.

Foodfilter

Gyan — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:44:10 -0800

The World's Healthiest Foods

I'd like myPyramid with fries, please.

fatllama — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:15:53 -0800

USDA releases new food pyramid(s). Instead of one cogent nutritional guideline for all Americans, the USDA has released a dozen because "one size doesn't fit all." Dietitians have advocated revision for a while now but change has been slow. According to author Marion Nestle, the nutritional guidelines have become highly politized by industry lobbyists: "My first day on the job, I was given the rules: No matter what the research indicated, the report could not recommend 'eat less meat' as a way to reduce intake of saturated fat." Newspeak for sweets appears to be discretionary calories; are we doing any better?

Bigger Food = Less Hunger

grateful — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:47:53 -0800

Portion Distortion Quiz. Just in time for T-day, our helpful friends at NIH have updated last year's quiz with Portion Distortion II. Caution: pictures of food are bigger today than they were 20 years ago.

apples & oranges

johnny7 — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:54:53 -0800

Interesting info for even the ardent salad dodgers (via bifurcated rivets)

Doritos, that counts as a cheese, right?

XQUZYPHYR — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:46:01 -0800

The food pyramid has been updated again, apparently. According to Frito-Lay, your major food groups now consist of fruits, vegetables, protein, dairy, and Doritos. (via Calpundit)

Create-a-meal

crunchland — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:08:15 -0800

Create-a-meal [note: flash] ... comes in mcdonalds, subway, barbeque, and pizza hut flavors.

Mmm-mmm, good!

crunchland — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:37:31 -0800

"64 grams of fat, 2,090 milligrams of sodium, and enough cholesterol to kill anything that's ever lived." 104% of your USDA daily requirements of saturated fat. 231% of your daily intake of cholesterol. Swanson's Hungry-Man All-Day Breakfast! (Pancakes included.)

holgate — Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:17:54 -0800

"GMO free" labelling set to become illegal in the US? "The U.S. regulatory system is a model around the world because it is grounded in science, not superstition or uninformed emotion." So says the president of a biotech lobby group. Ahem.

mathowie — Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:36:14 -0800

One of the holy grails of the infosaturated overworking computer professionals like myself is a single food capable of giving all the nutrients you'd need for a meal, and be as easy as possible to prepare and eat. Some friends used to call this dream creation "food paste" or "foodstuff capsules" or most simply "fuel." I never thought my Jetsonian dream would ever come true, but now there's the Dilberito, with 100% of 23 vitamins and Jamba Juice's Smoothies. Why do I mention Jamba? Because I saw this poster in the SFO airport last night, and they even go so far as to answer the question "can I get too much Jamba?"