Impress your friends — and Instagram — with this holiday superfood.
Why purple sweet potatoes belong on your holiday table
The day California wine beat France
How two blind taste tests stunned the experts and changed the way the world drinks (and thinks about) wine.
Physician, feed thyself
Future doctors and nurses learn what nutrition really means to help patients down the line.
Grow and eat your own vaccines?
A new project will study whether edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.
Could wildfires ruin our wine?
Researchers are racing to find ways to help California's iconic wine industry adapt to a changing climate, including drought and wildfire.
A Zoom-friendly idea for Thanksgiving
Impress your family from afar — and your friends on Instagram — with this holiday superfood.
Serve your community at your Thanksgiving table
Six ways to bring deeper meaning to your meal by supporting farmers, farmworkers and the planet.
UC to ditch single-use plastics
The University of California is taking a stand against the throwaway culture that is choking our oceans and landfills with single-use plastics.
UC Riverside discovers first effective treatment for citrus-destroying disease
The disease that has devastated crops in Florida and threatens California may finally be stoppable.
America’s most widely consumed cooking oil causes genetic changes in the brain
Soybean oil is linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice in new research.
Reversing polycystic kidney disease
The inherited disorder has long been thought to be irreversible, but changes to diet could provide hope.
How cilantro works as a secret weapon against seizures
Cilantro has been used as food and medicine for 8,000 years. Now, scientists know how it works to curb epileptic seizures.