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A beach heavily littered with plastic waste, including bottles, containers, and other debris, stretches alongside a scenic shoreline with lush green cliffs and calm ocean waves. The image, featured in a FoodFacts.org article, emphasizes the environmental toll of food packaging and highlights the urgent need for sustainable alternatives to reduce plastic pollution in marine ecosystems.
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Trapped in a plastic tide: the devastating impact of food packaging and the fight for change

Plastic food packaging contributes to microplastic contamination and long-term pollution. Here's what evidence shows and which alternatives are making…
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A group of smiling people stands in front of a Food Stash Foundation truck featuring colorful, illustrated produce and community-themed artwork, suggesting a shared mission focused on food rescue and sustainability.
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Food Systems

Closing Canada’s food waste gap: how food stash foundation leads the charge

Amid Canada’s worsening affordability crisis, one Vancouver-based foundation is transforming food waste into hope.
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A woman smiles as she prepares to blend a smoothie containing leafy greens and pink fruit yogurt in a blender. The image accompanies an article investigating Jessie Inchauspé’s advice to avoid smoothies for blood sugar management. It visually contrasts the popular image of smoothies as healthy with FoodFacts.org’s scientific analysis of how different ingredients and preparation methods affect glucose response.
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Nutrition

Jessie Inchauspé says we should avoid smoothies. What does the science say?

The Glucose Goddess says smoothies spike blood sugar dangerously — but the evidence shows whole-fruit smoothies are healthy for most people. Here's why.
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A visually split flat-lay of diverse food items on a marble surface, comparing plant-based foods on the left—such as fruits, legumes, rice, and vegetables—with animal-based foods on the right—like eggs, bacon, cheese, and meat. At the center is a plate with both types of foods divided down the middle, symbolizing the debate. A clipboard on the right lists protein-rich foods. This image supports the article's exploration of Paul Saladino’s critiques of plant-based diets in relation to longevity, and FoodFacts.org’s fact-checking of those claims through nutritional science.
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OPINION
Health

Paul Saladino MD questions plant-based diets for longevity. What does the science say?

Paul Saladino questions whether plant-based diets support longevity — but the evidence from Blue Zones and long-term cohort studies tells a different…
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