News Nutrition & Health
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Healthy appetite retained despite loss of taste and smell
- Imagine: suddenly, you can no longer smell your favourite perfume or dish. Many COVID-19 patients know all about it: they lost their sense of smell... -
Consumers positive about smart shelf life indicator on packaging
- Consumers recognise the added value of a Keep-it shelf-life indicator for fresh products in a meal box. This was the main outcome of a study... -
Start of public-private cooperation for sustainable and healthy beverages
- A demand for protein that is anticipated to outstrip planetary resources by 2050 is prompting the agro-food sector to urgently find alternative... -
Alternative proteins are increasingly accepted, but consumption is lagging behind
- More and more Dutch people want to eat less meat, dairy and eggs and are more likely to opt for alternative protein sources. They also see themselves... -
Changing the Rules for the Fight Against Food Waste
- Many steps must still be taken to achieve the Dutch ambition of halving food losses and waste by 2030. In some occasions, policy and regulations are... -
Human spatial memory gives priority to high-calorie foods
- People remember the location of high-calorie food more accurately than of low-calorie food, research by Wageningen University & Research shows.... -
CineScience movie talk: Hidden Figures
- With their movie talk Kevin Matson, Ingrid Luijkx and Diana Machado de Sousa, on behalf of the Wageningen Young Academy, want to focus on the... -
CineScience movie talk: Normal Is Over 1.1
- With this movie talk, we discuss ‘the old’ and ‘the new normal’. Not in the context of the corona pandemic – that... -
How do we operationalise "the great food transformation"?
- The newly published report in Nature Food, "Five priorities to operationalize the EAT–Lancet Commission report", elaborates on the... -
New European Marie Curie training projects approved
- WUR participates in nine projects within the recent Innovative Training Network (ITN) call. In two of these projects -EATFish and TRANSIT – WUR...