Category: Health & Nutrition

The tops of five green plantains.

Nourishing Your Tradition: Healthy Modifications for Hispanic Recipes


October 13, 2025

Welcome to Nutrition Stories, a series exploring hot topics in nutrition and dietetics. Our guest is Emily Rodriguez-Hidalgo, a graduate of the UF Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) in the Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN) Department ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Baked Tostones, Dietetics, Emily Rodriguez-Hidalgo, FSHN Nutrition Stories, Healthy Hispanic Recipes, Healthy Tostones, Healthy Tostones Recipe, Hispanic Recipes, Nutrition, Nutrition Stories, Nutritious Hispanic Recipes, Tostones, Tostones Recipe
photo of seeds featured in the one seed breaking the rules edition - cilantro, flat leaf parsley, and dill

Breaking the Rules! ‘One Seed’ at a Time


October 10, 2025

Breaking the Rules- why just one when you can have three? Herbs, that is! Okay- maybe we aren’t breaking a ‘rule’, but instead of just sharing one type of crop to grow - we are busting out a trio of herbs in our ‘One Seed’ packets ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Work & Life
Tags: Edible Gardening, Food, Growing Food In Florida, Health, Herbs, Horticulture, Nutrition, One Seed, Pgm_Gardens, Pgm_HortRes, Seed Library

Shrimpin’ in the Sunshine State: Florida’s Shrimp Species, Seasons, and Fun Facts


October 7, 2025

This blog post was developed using original content by Laila Cohen, intern UF/IFAS Extension Brevard County, and Holly Abeels, FL Sea Grant Extension Agent, and edited with assistance from Microsoft Copilot. Shrimping is a beloved tradition ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Cooking, Fish, Florida Sea Grant, Food, Nutrition
Roasted carrots on a platter. Photo taken 11-03-22. UF/IFAS Photo by Tyler Jones.

Healthy Harvest for Healthier Holidays


October 7, 2025

The holiday season has not begun yet, but the snacking-related snares have emerged. Loved ones have brought home massive bags of candy in preparation for Halloween and urged you to take all the sweets they don’t want. You have that one friend ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Department Of Family Youth And Community Sciences, Eating Well, Family Nutrition And Health, Healthy Harvest, Holidays

Broccoli: A Powerful Vegetable for Cancer Prevention


October 6, 2025

By Joshua Payne, RDN, LDN, UF/IFAS Extension Hillsborough County FCS Agent and Shari Bresin, MNM, UF/IFAS Extension Pasco County FCS Agent Broccoli is more than a side dish — it is a nutrition powerhouse linked to many health benefits, including ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition
Tags: Broccoli, Cancer Prevention, Cancer Prevention 2025, Cruciferous, Fiber, Healthy Eating, Nutrition

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