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We hope you enjoy the FoodInsight website! The International Food Information Council Foundation provides food safety, nutrition, and healthful eating information to help you make good and safe food choices. Please take a look around and let us know what you think!

NEW INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES SECTION: Check out our new and improved International Resources section, which includes a summary of our recent Global Diet and Physical Activity Communications Summit: “Insights to Motivate Healthful, Active Lifestyles.” More info.

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  • Sodium & Health Resource Page

    When you think of sodium, salt probably comes to mind. Although the two terms, “sodium” and “salt” are often used interchangeably, they are different substances. The chemical name for salt, sodium chloride, reveals that sodium is in fact a component of salt. By weight, salt is composed of 40 percent sodium and 60 percent chloride. One teaspoon of salt weighs 5 grams and contains about 2,300 milligrams of sodium.

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  • Fact Sheet: Potassium & Heart Health

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  • Questions and Answers About Food Biotechnology

    Since its introduction to food production in the early 1990s, food biotechnology has helped to produce better tasting, fresher foods, protect the environment, and provide greater crop yields. In the future, biotechnology may help keep food safe to eat, help farmers grow more food on less land, and provide more healthful foods. Foods produced through biotechnology have been determined to be safe based on broad consensus among the scientific community coupled with a strong regulatory system invo

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  • A Consumer's Guide to Food Safety Risks

    The United States provides one of the safest food supplies in the world. With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the food, beverage and agricultural industries working together, our food supply is becoming even safer. However, despite all of these safety factors, microorganisms may still exist at levels that present risks to consumers.

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  • Questions and Answers About Bisphenol-A (BPA)

    Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastic or epoxy resins. These resins are used in some food packaging materials, such as the lining inside metal-based food and beverage cans, coatings on metal closures / lids for glass jars, reusable plastic containers for food and beverages and tableware.

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  • David Lineback Explains Acrylamide

    Dr. David R. Lineback discusses the safety of acrylamide and why you shouldn't be worried about it (especially if you take the proper precautions).

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  • Fact Sheet: Potassium & Heart Health

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  • Questions and Answers About Energy Drinks and Health

    Energy drinks have been increasing in popularity, especially among teens and children. Due to several articles in the media about negative health effects experienced by people who consumed too many energy drinks, some parents and school personnel have become concerned about their growing popularity specifically among teens and children.

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  • Everything You Need to Know About Aspartame

    Aspartame is a low-calorie sweetener used in foods and beverages in more than 100 countries around the world. It is about 200 times sweeter than sugar. The calories in foods can be substantially reduced, and in some products eliminated, by using aspartame in place of sugar.

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  • Fast Facts about High-Fructose Corn Syrup

    Whether the menu calls for glazed ham, hot oatmeal or blueberry pancakes, the home cook has a repertoire of sweeteners to choose from. Sugar, brown sugar, honey, molasses, and corn syrup all have a place on the pantry shelf depending on the recipe and what roles the sweetener needs to play.

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National Nutrition Month Registered Dietitian Videos

Our Registered Dietitians on staff will post weekly videos about how they eat right, their way, every day. Should you feel inspired after seeing our RDs’ videos, you can participate in our Facebook Video Contest by submitting your own—showing the world how you put the National Nutrition Month theme, “Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day, into action. You could win great prizes, such as a Kindle Fire HD or a trip to the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics 2013 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo. Visit our Facebook page for contest details and enter today!