Health Dec 30 Healthy-sounding buzzwords could be hiding added sugar in plain sight By Albert Stumm, Associated Press
Health Nov 23 Worried about the sugar in your cranberry sauce? A food scientist shares how to cook with fewer added sweeteners Lots of the healthy raw ingredients used in holiday foods can end up overshadowed by sugar and starch, but with a few science-backed culinary tricks, you can make a delicious cranberry dish that’s Type 1 diabetes-friendly. By Rosemary Trout, The Conversation
Health Apr 24 USDA's final rule for school meals will limit added sugars, sodium Limits on added sugars in foods such as cereal, yogurt and flavored milk will start in 2025. By JoNel Aleccia, Associated Press
World Jan 05 Global food prices fell in 2023 compared to 2022, except for sugar and rice The drop in food commodity prices in 2023 comes despite a difficult year for food security around the world. By Associated Press
World Nov 19 Sugar sees global price hike after crops in Asia hit by dry weather tied to El Nino Sugar worldwide is trading at the highest prices since 2011, mainly due to lower global supplies after unusually dry weather damaged harvests in India and Thailand, the world's second- and third-largest exporters. By Aniruddha Ghosal, Chinedu Asadu, Associated Press
Jul 04 Watch 6:01 New podcast examines sugar industry's political power and mistreatment of workers By Stephanie Sy, Ian Couzens Sugar plays an outsized role in what many eat every day with the average American consuming more than 100 pounds in a year, according to the USDA. The multi-billion dollar sugar business is the subject of the new podcast "Big… Continue watching
Nov 23 U.S. to detain Dominican sugar import amid accusations of forced labor By Dánica Coto, Associated Press The U.S. government says it will detain all imports of sugar and related products made in the Dominican Republic by the country's largest sugar producer amid allegations that it uses forced labor. Continue reading
Nov 22 Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago, researchers say By Teresa Carey Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have uncovered documents demonstrating that members of the sugar industry called off a study in the 1960s because it linked sucrose -- a common sugar -- to heart disease and bladder cancer… Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch 5:49 How the sugar industry paid experts to downplay health risks By PBS News Hour Researchers have discovered documents showing that the sugar industry paid researchers to downplay the health risks of sugar and play up the risks of saturated fat in the 1960s. Gwen Ifill speaks with Marion Nestle of New York University about… Continue watching
Sep 13 How the sugar industry artificially sweetened Harvard research By Melissa Bailey, STAT A paper recounts how two famous Harvard nutritionists, Dr. Fredrick Stare and Mark Hegsted, who are now deceased, worked closely with a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, which was trying to influence public understanding of sugar’s role in… Continue reading