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Local residents pick cranberries for sale in Omsk Region

Health Nov 23

Worried about the sugar in your cranberry sauce? A food scientist shares how to cook with fewer added sweeteners

By Rosemary Trout, The Conversation

Health Apr 24

Students in their first day of school at Wilder Elementary School in Louisville, KY
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

Man compares different grains of rice at a wholesale market in Navi Mumbai
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

A worker loads sugarcane into a vehicle at a wholesale market in Ahmedabad
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

Nation Jul 04

BigSugar
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New podcast examines sugar industry’s political power and mistreatment of workers

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…

By Stephanie Sy, Ian Couzens

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.

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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…

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Sep 13

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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…

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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…

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Sep 12

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News Wrap: As cease-fire starts, Assad insists he means to retain control

By PBS News Hour

In our news wrap Monday, a cease-fire in Syria, negotiated by the United States and Russia, took effect at sunset, despite government attacks in Aleppo. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared in a recaptured Damascus suburb to say that he means…

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