Taco Bell is launching its new value menu, which offers 10 items for $3 or less and a new, vegetarian “Build-Your-Own-Cravings-Box”. The fast food chain is set to launch the new Cravings Value Menu on Thursday, Jan. 11, the company said in a news release. It will feature six new items and four classics. The value menu prices vary from $1.19 to $2.99 and feature a variety of options for meat eaters and vegetarians alike, like the Cheesy Bean & […]
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CONSUMER TRENDS … Key differences in food sustainability and values emerge between generations PUBLISHED ON January 11, 2024 In the latest Consumer Food Insights Report, Joseph Balagtas, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University and director of the Center for Food Demand and Analysis, asked consumers to decide about discarding or consuming a food item based on different hypothetical “use by” dates. (Purdue Agricultural Communications photo/Tom Campbell) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Building off the previous month’s survey, the December 2023 Consumer […]
“First it was canned fish and Spam, and now beans and pulses are the latest cupboard staple to get a foodie renaissance. Once dismissed as a bland and boring basic, they’re now centre stage on every fashionable restaurant menu and are increasingly part of every savvy cook’s kitchen arsenal. In the past year, people have also cottoned on to their economy, versatility and great nutritional value (they’re low in fat and high in protein). Plus, they can ‘stretch’ a hearty […]
It’s true. Milk does the body good. Milk and other dairy foods provide protein, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, vitamins A, D, and B12 and other nutrients that are vital to your body and how it functions. On the flip side, however, some dairy foods also contain saturated fat — a fat that can raise low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, which increases the risk of heart disease. But some recent research suggests that eating milk, cheese and yogurt — regardless of fat content […]
A UC Riverside study to motivate your new year’s resolutions: it demonstrates that high-fat diets affect genes linked not only to obesity, colon cancer, and irritable bowels, but also to the immune system, brain function, and potentially COVID-19 risk. While other studies have examined the effects of a high-fat diet, this one is unusual in its scope. UCR researchers fed mice three different diets over the course of 24 weeks where at least 40 percent of the calories came from […]
With the flip of a calendar year often comes the resolution to be the best new version of ourselves. With this fresh start, we promise that we’ll be better, do better, cut things out and swear things off. The majority of people’s resolutions revolve around physical and mental health, finances and losing weight, but these typically last only two to four months. Instead of cutting things out, research has shown that focusing on adding things in can make small changes […]
In this exclusive video, we spoke to supplier and producers from across the food ingredients sector to discover how they are supporting manufacturers and their predictions for the new year. Klaudia Milos, business director food enzymes at AB Enzymes discussed a gap in the market for fibres, with an increasing demand for fibres with prebiotic effects. Meanwhile, Angel Yeast regional manager Harry Han sang the praises of yeast as an alternative protein source to meat. Plant-based trends Plant-based was a […]
With the flip of a calendar year often comes the resolution to be the best new version of ourselves. With this fresh start, we promise that we’ll be better, do better, cut things out and swear things off. The majority of people’s resolutions revolve around physical and mental health, finances and losing weight, but these typically last only two to four months. Instead of cutting things out, research has shown that focusing on adding things in can make small changes […]
The new year is here and the insanity of the season has come to an end. As the holiday fog begins to lift from our brains, we now have more time to focus on the intentions we set for 2024. Some people may have set intentions that are health-related, like moving your body more or eating more nutritious foods, and some may have set the goal of losing a few pounds. If healthy, sustainable weight loss is on your resolutions […]
One reason milk was prioritized over water was a result of a surplus created during WWII. Farmers and dairies were encouraged to ramp up their milk production to ship overseas to soldiers. Post-war, there was a massive surplus of milk and no demand to match it, so the U.S. government was forced to come up with a way to use it and so the very first federal subsidized program was enacted in 1940 targeting select schools in Chicago, to offer low-cost […]
