Science In Your Shopping Cart

Science In Your Shopping Cart

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Season 9: Healthier & Tastier – It's All In The Formula | Episode 5: Waxing Poetic About Healthy Oils

Wouldn’t it be great if the oils and margarines you cook with were actually healthy for you and still enhanced the flavor of your foods? Researchers at ARS’s Functional Foods Research Unit in Peoria, Illinois, are mixing common cooking oils with natural waxes to create oleogels – ...  Afficher plus

Season 9: Healthier & Tastier – It's All In The Formula | Episode 4: Breaktime: Getting Healthy

Here at ARS, we are constantly researching ways to make the food in your shopping cart healthier and tastier, including for those who have to be careful about the food they ingest. Here are some recent creations that will get your mouth watering.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_AR ...  Afficher plus

Season 9: Healthier & Tastier – It's All In The Formula | Episode 3: These Peaches Are A Real Joy

We travel to Byron, Georgia, to the ARS Fruit and Tree Nut Research Unit, and visit with Research Horticulturist Chunxian Chen. Dr. Chen and his group recently released three new peach cultivars: Rich Joy, Crimson Joy, and Liberty Joy.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: ...  Afficher plus

Season 9: Healthier & Tastier – It's All In The Formula | Episode 2: Cheers To A Heartier New Hop

We travel to Corvallis, Oregon, to meet with ARS research geneticist John Henning.  Here at the Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit, John and his team recently released two new beer hop varieties: Vista and Triumph.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResear ...  Afficher plus

Season 9: Healthier & Tastier | Episode 1: A Healthier Milk Chocolate

The U.S. imports around $5 billion in cocoa and chocolate products annually, and we produce millions of pounds of chocolate for consumers. The health benefits of dark chocolate are well known, mainly it has more antioxidants than milk chocolate because it contains more cacao soli ...  Afficher plus