Many more consumers have tried at least once organic food, but despite higher consumer awareness, they still show a great concern about food quality and safety. Recent research showed that there is still little knowledge of how organic products are produced and processed and which characteristics are fundamental for the consumer with regard to quality and safety. In this scenario, primary produ...

INTRODUCTION The acceptability and efficacy of existing ready-to-use supplementary and therapeutic foods has been low in Cambodia, thus limiting success in preventing and treating malnutrition among Cambodian children. In that context, UNICEF and IRD have developed a locally produced, multiple micronutrient fortified lipid-based nutrient supplement. This food is innovative, in that it uses fish...

This is an informal introduction to a series of essays on agricultural ethics. These essays have been solicited from people who have thought about the choices we face and the decisions we must make as we try to balance feeding the world’s expected 9 billion people with the need to preserve the food-producing capacity and the natural ecosystems of the Earth for future generations. The goal of th...

1 Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2 Unit of Nutrition and Child Health, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin, 4 Public Health Section, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 5 Africa...

1 Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2 Unit of Nutrition and Child Health, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin, 4 Public Health Section, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 5 Africa...

The authors provide evidence that social ethics claims on food packaging (e.g., fair trade) can promote the misperception that foods are lower-calorie and therefore appropriate for greater consumption. In Study 1, participants evaluating chocolate provided lower calorie judgments when it was described as fair trade—a claim silent on calorie content but signifying that trading partners received ...

INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of mortality worldwide and diet is an important contributor to CVD risk. Thus, several food derivatives are being investigated for their beneficial impact on reducing cardiometabolic risk factors, either in risk groups or in healthy population as a preventive measure. Wheat germ is a food by-product with high nutritional value, es...