We should be eating plenty of fresh produce every day. But throwing away another bunch of wilted herbs is demotivating. Thankfully, there are helpful tips to make produce last.
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Earlier springs due to climate change are wreaking havoc in orchards.
Community-centred approaches to urban agriculture have been successful in various parts of the world.
Children have an innate preference for fruit. But vegetables are just as important. Here are some tips if your kids don’t want to eat their veggies.
Cranberries add color and acidity to Thanksgiving menus, but they also have many interesting botanical and genetic features.
Functional foods − which should not be confused with ‘superfoods’ − possess specific components that contribute to better health.
There are lots of other ingredients you can use to make foods puff and rise, give your meal a rich taste, or to hold together ingredients.
Humans have figured out how to season their food with virtually every part of plants.
A 90% crop loss in the Peach State may sound like a disaster, but Georgia isn’t actually the Big Apple of peach production that it claims to be.
Eggs are hard to beat, but there are plenty of other options.
Changing habitat ranges, competition for food and water, and biological effects of climate change all pose threats to wildlife.
Lillipillies are one of Australia’s great gifts to the natural world. But the story of these homegrown heroes may be taking a grim turn.
Fruit bats have the potential to reforest areas where trees had been lost in parts of Africa.
Pinpointing the chemical compounds that make a fruit tasty to consumers can help producers breed for even more flavorful crops.
Homegrown tomatoes and corn in Alaska? Climate change could make it possible in the 2030s and ‘40s – a rare silver lining for this fast-warming state.
Sugar gets a bad rap, but exactly which sugar is meant? Nutrient-dense sweet ripe fruits are a far cry from refined table sugar – and their differences can have big health implications.
Forests around the world will need to shift their ranges to adapt to climate change. But many trees and plants rely on animals to spread their seeds widely, and those partners are declining.
Vegetables, fruits and legumes are nutritious and sustainable – but subsidies overwhelmingly neglect them.
The polarizing dessert that people love to hate became a Christmas mainstay thanks, in part, to the U.S. Postal Service.
Dried foods are a staple in many Aussie diets, but the industry is under threat as recurring drought makes fruit and vegetables harder to process.
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Senaka Ranadheera is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Medical, Indigenous and Health Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Professor, University of Stirling
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Accredited Practising Dietitian; Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, Flinders University
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Professor Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Hospitality Management, Colorado State University
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Stirling
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Scientist, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Visiting Academic, Aston Medical School, Aston University
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Adjunct lecturer and nutritionist, UNSW Sydney
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Nutrition Epidemiologist, CSIRO
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Professor and Director, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University
