Tag: consumption

Juice Plus+ is a product composed of capsules of highly concentrated fruit and vegetable powder. Since you just swallow them with water, like any other capsules, flavor is irrelevant.

Bad news for the produce industry in The New Yorker of October 10, 2022.

The Produce for Better Health Foundation today released its latest research report: Hacks To Habits: A Behavioral Research Study To Bolster Fruit & Vegetable Consumption.

The Produce For Better Health Foundation released its 2021 Annual Report showcasing the organization’s key accomplishments and results obtained throughout the year.

American consumers are not in the habit of eating many fruits and vegetables. That has to change.

Inflation rates have hit a year-over-year rate of 7.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is a 40-year high. How have substantial price rises affected fresh produce demand over the past year?

The Centers for Disease Control has issued a new report regarding produce consumption and the numbers haven’t moved. Only one in 10 Americans consume enough fruits and vegetables each day, which is unchanged from previous survey levels announced in 2015.

Here’s a guessing game: what percentage of calories consumed by Americans comes from ultraprocessed foods?

The age-old joke about the couple who can’t decide where to eat is magnified when it comes to meal planning at home. Add an alarming lack of either time or skill in the kitchen, and we’ve got a recipe for food fatigue and a nutritional disaster.

Personally, I’m skeptical about surveys. It’s partly because you can create a survey that tells you anything you want it to, as political advocacy groups learned decades ago.