nutrition

School Lunch Gets the Chef Treatment

Elaine Grant — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:11:34 +0000

If packing a lunch is a bit too daunting, never fear, at least not if you're the parent of a Souhegan High School Student. As part of our series Shifting the Balance, Elaine Grant got the skinny on their new, chef-inspired lunch program. (Check out the menu!)

WIC Increases Income Eligibility

Tina Forbes — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:12:18 +0000

New poverty guidelines issued by the federal government have expanded eligibility for the WIC Nutrition Program.

What's Inside The 26-Ingredient School Lunch Burger?

Allison Aubrey — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Thiamine mononitrate, disodium inosinate, pyridoxine hydrochloride.

Why are these hard-to-pronounce ingredients added to everything from a burger served in schools to veggie burgers in the frozen food aisle of the grocery store? We try to answer that on this edition of Tiny Desk Kitchen.

It turns out the answers are as varied as the ingredients. But as we yearn to know what's in our food and how it's made, these kinds of ingredients with unfamiliar names make people suspicious.

"For me, it's just a huge red flag," says Ryan Lonnett, a parent of children in Fairfax County, Va., schools.

Death By Bacon? Study Finds Eating Meat Is Risky

Allison Aubrey — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:15:00 +0000

Bacon has been called the gateway meat, luring vegetarians back to meat.

How Pizza got Vegefied

Virginia Prescott — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:40:51 +0000

Not only is pizza a proposed vegetable, but apparently, it could soon be a "supervegetable." Wait, what?