"Introducing babies to foods that are overly sweet, salty and packed with additives can set the stage for unhealthy preferences..." said study author Elizabeth Dunford Kimberlee Speakman is a digital ...

The vast majority of baby foods, drinks and snacks sold in the United States for children ages 6 months to 36 months are ultraprocessed and may contain additives increasingly linked to potential ...

Foods that rely heavily on preservatives may be doing more than extending shelf life. In a large study spanning more than a decade, people with the highest intake of preservative additives were far ...

A study suggested that greater consumption of food preservatives widely used in processed foods and beverages was associated with an increased risk of cancer. Most of the preservatives linked to an ...

Two researchers wearing lab coats stand near stainless steel laboratory equipment and look at a computer monitor. Xing-Wu Liu (left) and Ding Ma prepare the reactor they use for studying ...

Walmart announced Wednesday that it would remove synthetic dyes and 30 other ingredients, including artificial sweeteners and preservatives, from its private-label food brands by 2027. The retailer ...

“The complexity of things—the things within things—just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.” –Alice Munro If you want to invent a new food additive, the U.S. Food and Drug ...

A major new study found that eating more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) – especially those with certain additives – is tied to higher mortality from any cause over about 11 years of follow-up.

What’s been added to your food could be subtracting from your life. Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) — which often contain high levels of sodium, refined sugars, cholesterol-spiking fats and other ...

"Too much of anything is bad for you." That’s what my mom would say when I asked to eat an entire watermelon for dinner. "But fruit is healthy," I would beg. At that moment, my mom was passing on ...

Animal studies suggest that some food additives, such as artificial colorants and sweeteners, emulsifiers, and antimicrobial preservatives, could be harmful to gut health. A recent review published in ...

Here's a closer look at the programming behind my animatronic mouth. Using Arduino, Python, and a few open-source libraries, I take a typed sentence and convert it into an animation sequence.