Homemade food is cheaper, faster and better tasting than what you buy at home. Michael Coren spent the past year perfecting his favorites. He wanted to reduce packaging waste and ultra-processed foods. He also wanted to make better ingredients for him, his family and the environment. Coren picked three of his favorite recipes.
Trevor Connor is CEO of The Paleo Diet, a company founded by the diet's creator Dr. Loren Cordain. The paleo diet is an eating approach based on foods believed to have been consumed before modern agriculture. It discourages participants from eating grains, legumes, dairy and ultra-processed versions of food. 70% of the food we eat now has been introduced in the last 200 years.
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) make up 75% of the U.S. food supply and more than half of the calories consumed by adults in high-income countries. UPFs are high in added sugars, sodium, modified starches, and saturated fat, and low in fiber, micronutrients, and phytochemicals. They stimulate the brain’s reward system and overrides satiety signals, making it difficult to stop eating.
The Academy of Global Citizenship on Chicago's South Side is one of a dozen participating in a federal pilot aimed at giving children healthier lunches. FDA program provided funding to select schools in the 2025-26 school year to purchase whole foods, upgrade kitchen equipment and hire staff to eliminate heavy metals and chemicals from school lunches, reduce pesticides by 50-80% and reduce heavy metals by 80-90%. The full results from the study will be published this summer.
In a controlled NIH trial, participants eating ultraprocessed diets consumed 508 more calories per day than when eating unprocessed foods. Food texture directly influences intake. The physical transformation of whole food into a processed format is enough to create compulsive overconsumption, even when the ingredients are impeccable.
A lot of the food we eat today contains unexpected and dangerous ingredients. In the US, there is precise guidance on how many ‘fragments’ are allowed in food. In many countries insects are a normal ingredient and a staple source of protein.
Highly processed foods often contain a lot of sugar, salt, hydrogenated fats, industrial starches and numerous additives. Daniela Graf from the Max Rubner Institute, Federal Research Institute for Nutrition and Food, says that they replace traditional foods like fresh fruit and vegetables.
Circana has released its 14th annual edition of its U.S. CPG growth leaders report. It evaluated 700 CPG manufacturers with more than $100 million in sales across CPG retail channels. Price pack architecture strategies are critical to meet value-conscious consumers. Private label sales grew 3.3% year over year in 2025 to a record $283 billion in 2025.
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Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Kitchen is expanding to New York and San Francisco. She's very involved in the menu development and she likes the salmon bento box ($18), winter harvest chop salad ($16.50) and the pepperoni pizza ($23).