Fourteen years ago, Michael Pollan offered us Food Rules. Today, researchers armed with machine learning and 50,000 grocery items are trying to turn Pollan’s “wisdom” into science. The findings ...

UPFs are not modified whole foods; instead, these products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods, with little or no intact food content. Typical ingredients of ...

For millennia, people have altered food to please their palates. More than 3,000 years ago Mesoamericans, living in what is Mexico and Central America today, cooked corn kernels in a solution of wood ...

New research is diving deeper into why ultra-processed foods are so addictive. UNC nutrition experts say the U.S. food system isn’t designed to help consumers stay healthy. Other WRAL Top Stories ...