Food
Frogurt: The hot, new cold snack
There has been a recent proliferation of frozen yogurt stores but do their ‘fat free’ and healthy claims stack up?......
Fair food week: who made your lunch, really?
This week is Australia’s first Fair Food Week, a week dedicated to the promotion and celebration of locally produced Australian......
All’s fair (trade) in love and university
The Fair Trade movement is slowly gaining momentum, with everything from coffee beans to bed sheets getting ethically certified. Now......
Cereal offender withdraws advertisements
The Advertising Standards Board has found that two of Kellogg’s advertisements were in breach of their own regulations. The advertisements......
World Environment Day cracks down on food waste
This year’s theme for World Environment Day celebrations is Think.Eat.Save. The anti-food waste campaign encourages people to think about what......
Is hunting and gathering the answer to disease and poor diet?
The consumption of sugary, salty and processed foods is preventing access to fresh food in some remote Indigenous communities. That’s......
New plastic electronics could reduce household food waste
A new plastic sensor that can be used in food packaging promises to tell you exactly when the food in......
Chocolate’s dark secret
Everyone loves chocolate. But behind the scenes of the chocolate industry the female farmers of cocoa are treated unfairly. Oxfam......
Aboriginal food program fails to deliver
A strategy to supply a remote Aboriginal community with fresh and affordable food has failed. It involved planting crops on......
New guidelines to battle the bulge against obesity
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has recently launched its revised Australian Dietary Guidelines to help combat obesity.......