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Age Friendly: Smart Lifestyle Choices for Healthy Aging—The Fruit, Vegetable, and Grain Food Groups

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April 13, 2023

In our last post in this "Age Friendly" series, we talked about how to fill our plates with healthier food choices. Making healthy choices includes knowing about the food groups, and knowing how much of each group you should consume each day. Let's ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Age, AgeFriendly, Aging, Diet, Food, Health, Healthy, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Pgm_FCS
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Evil Cakes Win Big: UF/FSHN Baking Team Awarded First Place in 2023 ASBE Product Development Competition

by Jessie ErwinAvatar photo
April 13, 2023

Deliciously indulgent, deceptively nutritious. How evil! -Evil Cakes slogan, UF/FSHN Product Development Team "Guys, I think I might pass out." When UF/FSHN Product Development Team member Jon Lee glanced out over the crowd, he was not ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: American Society Of Baking, American Society Of Baking Product Development Competition, Dr. Andrew MacIntosh, Evelyn Neilson, Evil Cakes, Jon Lee, Product Development, Product Development Competition, Research And Development, Santiago Cardenas, Sharon Chuah

Think About Reducing Food Waste Today

by Brenda Marty-JimenezAvatar photo
April 11, 2023

What can you do to prevent food waste? Money lost due to food waste could be spent in other ways.  It is economical to avoid wasting food in your home. Need some motivating ideas? 7 Ideas on How You Can Reduce Food Waste in Your Own Home: ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Money Matters, UF/IFAS Extension,
Tags: #FoodIsOurMiddleName, #FoodWastePreventionWeek2023, Buy Wisely, Cook Just Enough, Cooking Food, Cooking With Food Scraps, Create A Shopping List, Don't Waste Food, Food Tossed In The Trash, Food Waste Prevention Week, Food Waste Prevention Week 2023, How Can I Reduce Food Waste?, Organize Your Food Supplies, Prevent Food Waste, Reduce Food Waste, Reduce Food Waste Now, Serving Food, Shop, Shop Wisely
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Growing herbs for the first time? UF/IFAS expert offers beginners tips to getting started

by Lourdes MederosAvatar photo
April 10, 2023

This spring enjoy National Garden Month with homegrown herbs. Each April, this month-long observance brings together gardeners, gardening groups and those new to gardening to share tips and offer support for a bountiful season. If you ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Health & Nutrition, Horticulture, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life
Tags: Ask IFAS, Central Florida, Certified Seeds, Florida, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Food, Garden Beginners, German Sandoya Miranda, Herbs, Home Garden, Home Gardening, North Florida, Novice Gardeners, Seed Varieties, South Florida, Spring, UF IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Extension Agents, UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, UF/IFAS Solutions For Your Life, UF/IFAS Varieties

Sustainable Gardening-How to Grow Microgreens at Home

by Lorna Bravo
April 6, 2023

Article by UF/IFAS Extension Broward County Urban Horticulture Agent Lorna Bravo What are Microgreens? Microgreens are emerging specialty crops that have become increasingly popular in recent years. They are young, tender greens harvested ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water
Tags: Broward, Community, Community Garden, Florida Gardening, Food, Growing Food, Master Gardener Program, Master Gardener Volunteer, Microgreens, Pea Shoots, Science

2023 Flavors of Florida spiced up the night with purple sweetpotatoes, hops and more Florida-produced goodies

by Stella CanfieldAvatar photo
April 6, 2023

Oranges, blueberries, peanuts and corn are just a few of Florida’s delicious agricultural commodities featured in the UF/IFAS tasting showcase, Flavors of Florida, that returned March 23 at the Champions Club in UF’s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Local, ... READ MORE

Category: Events, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS
Tags: Alan And Cathy Hitchcock Field And Fork Pantry, Flavors Of Florida, UF/IFAS Research
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Research Journeys Update: Sharon Chuah, Cell-based Seafood

by Jessie ErwinAvatar photo
April 6, 2023

We are so pleased to welcome back Sharon Chuah to our Research Journeys series, which follows the research of graduate students in the Food Science and Human Nutrition program at The University of Florida. Last year, Sharon gave us an inside ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Dr. Razieh Farzad, Food-science-research, FSHN Research Journeys, Graduate Student, Graduate Student Research, Research, Research Journeys, Research-journeys-food-science, Research-journeys-food-science-phd, Sharon Chuah
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What Do Our Cognition and Mood Have to Gain From Muscadine Wine?

by Jessie ErwinAvatar photo
April 3, 2023

Welcome back to another installment of FSHN Research Journeys, which follows the research of graduate students in the Food Science and Human Nutrition program at The University of Florida. Today, we are pleased to feature Kylee Mai, a first-year ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Chuqiao Mai, Cognition, Dr. Liwei Gu, Food Science, FSHN Research Journeys, Graduate Research, Graduate Student, Kylee Mai, Muscadine Wine, Phytochemicals, Research, Research Journeys, Research-journeys-food-science, Research-journeys-food-science-ms

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