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Our Mission The Food Service Wellness Institute™ exists to advance the field of wellness within the onsite segment of the food service...
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The Food Service Wellness Institute’s Tools and Resources
The Food Service Wellness Institute™, offers valuable education, tools, and resources to support your onsite healthy dining and wellness...
Introducing the Nation’s First Food Service Wellness Institute and Certification
To Facilitate Healthier Dining in Businesses, Hospitals, Schools, and Senior Living Facilities, we are pleased to announce the official...
Government sued over weakening nutrition standards for schools
Trump Administration Rollback of Sodium and Whole Grain School Nutrition Standards Standards Violates Law
NPD Group: America's Truths about Dieting
The latest insights on US Health and Wellness by The NPD Group
NPD Group: The Meaning of Wellness for Manufacturers or Retailers
Wellness. The term is so ubiquitous nowadays that we rarely stop to think about it outside of the context of juicing, yoga, and expensive...
Nielsen Insights: What it means to be "clean"
As a result of the consumer focus on transparency, claims like “natural,” “organic” and “gluten free” have become common. The focus has...
Nielsen Insights: Organic
Despite their growing popularity, organic products are not necessarily a fad. Sales of organic FMCG haven’t waned, and given sales...
Nielsen Insights" Fresh Trends - Tracking the four trends driving growth across the fresh section
Across the total consumer product goods (CPG) landscape, we’ve been tracking a handful of key shifts taking place that are paving the way...
Nielsen Insights: What Food-Related Causes of U.S. Consumers Care About Today?
A conscious awakening has occurred within the U.S. consumer packaged goods (CPG) and food grocery landscape. Shoppers are increasingly...
Five Wellness-centered Food Trends to Watch in 2019
IFIC Foundation predicts that 2019 will bring a larger focus on the food journey, greater attention to food safety and allergens,...
How well do you know your ingredients?
To get a small “taste” of what you know, IFIC has come up with the "Test Your Food I.Q. Ingredient Quiz" for you to test your knowledge...
Learn how to eat mindfully with "Eat-Mojis"
How can we become more connected to and aware of our relationship with food? One way is through using mindfulness techniques while we...
The true facts about caffeine
There are several misleading claims about caffeine floating around—from magazine articles we might read to blogs we follow online—and for...
Is organic produce truly better than conventional?
We have all heard that eating organic fruits and vegetables is good for you. This is true. But it is also true that eating conventionally...
What does "organic" mean?
In this IFT Food Facts video, Carl Winter, PhD, a food toxicologist at the University of California, Davis explains what “organic” means,...
Creating consumer-friendly nutrition messages
Successful nutrition messages are essentially CONSUMER-ORIENTED. This is the basic premise of the New Nutrition Conversation with...
Going Gluten Free?.. Necessary for some, optional for others
With the growing popularity of gluten-free products at your local grocery store, you may have wondered if you should avoid eating gluten....
Hidden Sodium
Too much sodium is bad for your health and can increase your blood pressure and your risk for a heart attack and stroke. Watch this...
Celebrate National Farm to School
Watch this video to learn how farm to school is making a difference all across the country.
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