Wild About Sprouts and Ilana Muhlstein, MS, RDN Show How Easy it Can Be to Add Healthy Options to Every Meal Occasion Even Over the Holiday Season

December 21, 2020 RA Foods

Rä Foods LLC Wild About Sprouts™, a fresh sprouts produce company and Ilana Muhlstein, a celebrity dietitian are teaching consumers how easy it can be to add nutrition, flavor, crunch and color to all your eating occasions this holiday season.

Tomato Could Get Genetic Reboot From Wild Ancestor

December 21, 2020 Cornell University

Thousands of years ago, people in the region now known as South America began domesticating Solanum pimpinellifolium, a weedy plant with small, intensely flavored fruit. Over time, the plant evolved into S. lycopersicum – the modern cultivated tomato.

Mussels Sold in Grocery Stores Around the World Contain Microplastic Particles

December 18, 2020 Yale School of the Environment

Scientists have found microplastic in all of the most-consumed mussel species around the world. One gram of mussel meat purchased from a grocery store contains between 0.13 and 2.45 microplastic particles, according to a new study, with organisms harvested in the North Atlantic and South Pacific the most contaminated.

Shutting Down Salmon Farms in BC Begins in 2022

December 18, 2020 Nelson Bennett, BIV

The beginning of end of the salmon farming industry in B.C. as we know it will start in earnest in 2022 in the Discovery Islands.

America’s Scallop Catch Expected to Dip Somewhat In 2021

The United States’ scallop catch is likely to decline by more than a fifth in the coming year, federal regulators have said.