Questions & Answers About Food Color Additives
January 20, 2025
What you should know about approved food additives and food dyes.
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Mercury Fast Facts
December 3, 2024
Putting Mercury In Food Into Perspective: What You Need To Know The presence of heavy metals in food is not new. Mercury, like most heavy metals, is naturally occurring and…
Arsenic Fast Facts
December 3, 2024
Putting Arsenic In Food Into Perspective: What You Need To Know The presence of heavy metals in food is not new. Arsenic, like most heavy metals, is naturally occurring and…
Cadmium Fast Facts
December 2, 2024
Putting Cadmium In Food Into Perspective: What You Need To Know The presence of heavy metals in food is not new. Cadmium, like most heavy metals, is naturally occurring and…
Lead Fast Facts
December 2, 2024
Putting Lead In Food Into Perspective: What You Need To Know The presence of heavy metals in food is not new. Lead, like most heavy metals, is naturally occurring and…
Sweet Spot For Science: Navigating What Consumers Think & Know About Low- & No-Calorie Sweeteners
November 25, 2024
It is well known that babies are born with a natural taste preference for sweetness, which is thought to increase acceptance of their mother’s milk. Still, as we move on…
Building Trust In Food & Ingredient Safety In An All Or Nothing World
September 26, 2024
IFIC has long been an engaged leader and voice of reason in science, media, and stakeholder communications regarding food safety and nutrition. This point of view comes from our study…
Top 5 Takeaways On Sodium: Insights, Impacts, & Innovations For Public Health
July 23, 2024
Top 5 Takeaways On Sodium: Insights, Impacts, & Innovations For Public Health The antidote to dietary doldrums, salt, that unassuming crystalline ingredient that makes many foods taste better, is found…
Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: A Casualty Of Fear-Mongering?
April 25, 2024
Building healthy eating patterns is core to reducing risk and managing diet-related chronic diseases. As such, supporting healthy food and beverage behaviors among Americans is a key public health tenet.…
Top 5 Takeaways About Fiber, Fruit & Vegetable Consumption & Its Impact On The Gut Microbiome
April 25, 2024
Over the past few years, the terms “microbiome” and “gut health” have exploded into the public consciousness due to an increase in newly published scientific research, media coverage, health and…