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Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Thursday January 13, 2022 Kritika Gupta, MS, Stacey Viera, MPH, Aysegul Baltaci, MS, Sayaka Sato, MS, Opeyemi Adewumi, MSc The Student Division of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) is a fairly young division that was established in 2019 and continues to provide an enriched experience for the student members. The 2020-21 school year was filled with compounded challenges of the pandemic. However, the student division witnessed an increased student membership and showed great enthusiasm in the 202 (...)

Posted by: Ellen Schuster, MS on Monday January 3, 2022 Overview: This year’s 2022 predictions are very consistent,  popular trends include: foods/ingredients that support health/brain health, foods to address immunity and  stress/burnout including pre/probiotics, functional ingredients, foods and drinks, citrus/botanicals and adaptogens; plant-based; shoppers seeking sustainable products and looking to address food waste; global flavors for diversity and ‘superfood’ attributes. Keep your eye on this: trending of recipes on social media (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Thursday December 16, 2021 Everyone has their favorite online resource. Here are online resources you might find new and useful. Enjoy! Food Fooddive: food industry news, analysis, trends and new product rollouts Grocerydive: grocery news, e-commerce Supermarket Perimeter: news about fresh groceries Supermarket Guru: trends, news and product reviews Smartbrief: food & beverage news Marketing Dive: digital marketing news Specialty Food Association: specialty food industry, grocers, e-commerce ne (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Thursday December 9, 2021 Karen Chapman-Novakofski, PhD, RDN Last year we implemented a new article type category for Questionnaire Development. These can be found under the Collections tab on the jneb.org website. The Development and Validation of a Military Eating Survey includes 43 eating habits and 90 mediating behavior items. 1 The 14 habit scales include hunger, satiety, food craving, meal pattern, restraint, diet rigidity, emotional eating, fast/slow eating rate, environmental triggers, situational eating, suppl (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Thursday December 9, 2021 Jasia (Jayne) Steinmetz, RD, CD I believe that curiosity is one of our super powers. In my undergraduate class focused on sustainable food systems, we follow an inquiry-based model and identify a topic, then create a series of questions that we try to answer to find a path forward in the food system. Our latest topic was the new plant-based and cell-based meat substitutes. The students’ curiosity led them to logical and valuable questions. Were the new meats more ecologically sustainable? (...)

Posted by: Ellen Schuster, MS on Thursday December 2, 2021 Projected online grocery shopping, food delivery more expensive, food pickup, grocery smart carts, social media marches on in the food space, robots and more are the latest food and tech news stories. And in a ‘sign of the times’...the Butterball Turkey Line (40 years old!) is available by phone, text, Alexa-enabled devices and now TikTok. Snapchat matches ingredients and online recipes. Is this a good thing? Below I describe the ‘gaps’ in online recipes and what the public needs to kno (...)

Posted by: Ellen Schuster, MS on Wednesday November 10, 2021 Food is increasingly easier to access with online shoppable content, Walmart’s testing of text to shop and other developments. In one example, some neighborhoods are being charged less than the same food available in other locations. Changes are quick, disruptive and before we know it, part of the new norm. Frictionless food shopping Walmart to beta test Text to Shop in selected markets. Walmart to launch shoppable recipes w/Pinterest. Thrive Market debuts ‘shoppable’ cookb (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Wednesday November 10, 2021 Karen Chapman-Novakofski, PhD, RDN Systematic reviews have been around for a long time. JNEB published its first systematic review in 2008, analyzing the impact of peer education on dietary behaviors and health outcomes among Latinos. 1 While peer education was found to have positive outcomes, the authors called for additional research concerning the peer educator themselves, the length and type of intervention, and of course, better standardization of questionnaires and scales. Because this p (...)

Posted by: Rachel Daeger, CAE, IOM on Wednesday November 10, 2021 Andrea Bersamin, Yenory Hernández-Garbanzo, Abiodun T. Atoloye, Jorge U. Gonzalez, Israel Ríos-Castillo, Thu Thu May Oo, Jinan Banna, Ahlam El Shikieri, Eunice Bonsi Despite the essential benefits of fruits and vegetables (F&V), much of the world does not eat the minimum recommended amounts. In addition, nearly 50% of all F&V produced globally is wasted between harvest and consumption. 1 These issues put unnecessary pressures on both the health of the people and the planet.1 In (...)

Posted by: Ellen Schuster, MS on Monday November 1, 2021 The summit has ended but you can view it online (links to each day is below). Agenda. Comments/input to FDA can be submitted electronically through November 20, 2021; review existing comments submitted. Background: Consider that meal kit delivery was introduced in the U.S., Netherlands, Australia and the U.K. in 2012, five years after Sweden’s launch in 2007. Meal kit services have taken off in grocery stores and restaurants. Phil Lempert shares in his overview on Day 1, that the meal ki (...)