How well do you know the dairy group?

During National Nutrition Month, quiz yourself on how well you know the dairy group and its importance in your diet. Get 10/10 right and you’ll be “legen-dairy!” [wp_quiz id=”2300″]

What’s Your Veggie IQ?

If you carrot all about your health, take this quick quiz and see if you can squash the competition with your knowledge of the vegetable group. 0% About how much of your plate should be fruits and vegetables? One quarter One half Three quarters All of it Correct!...

Do Foods Need to be Colorful to be Healthful?

While choosing a rainbow of colors of fruits and vegetables provides a wide variety of phytonutrients that the plants make to protect themselves (and which also benefit our overall health), many people forget that white foods fit into a rainbow of color too! Onion,...

What Are Prebiotics?

We’re learning more about the important role of the gut microbiome –- the millions of bacteria that populate our intestines, a.k.a. “guts” –- in promoting good health. The gut microbiome contains both helpful and potentially harmful bacteria, and when the...

A New Health Claim for Magnesium

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new health claim for magnesium and its role in reducing the risk of high blood pressure. A health claim can be used on food and supplement label packaging to characterize the relationship between a substance...

Explore Diverse Backgrounds – challenge starts January 30

Get Ready for your next team challenge! The Explore Diverse Backgrounds Challenge starts on January 30. In this challenge, learn more about different identities and our own biases. This will help us better understand various challenges that people with different...