UC Irvine provides a full menu of events, activities encouraging new approaches to sustainable nourishment.

UC research is helping uncover answers to the nation’s obesity epidemic and other thorny food-related issues.

Researchers find better management of diabetes through nutrition food and education supplied by food pantries.

Project will build on UC Davis' efforts in Pakistan agriculture, with a renewed emphasis on an exchange of faculty and graduate students.

Reducing consumption of added sugar has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, such as high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as 10 days.

The 44 fellows, representing all 10 UC campuses, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources and Berkeley Lab, will help advance the systemwide initiative.

A sweet may sound like a treat, but a steady diet of them also may impair recovery from mental deficits after head trauma.

Technology has greatly accelerated research on an ambrosia beetle that is damaging trees in Southern California.

A quarter of the fish sampled at markets in California and Indonesia has consumed plastic or man-made fiber material.

The Inuit and their Siberian ancestors have special genetic mutations that help them partly counteract the effects of a diet high in marine mammal fat — and most of us don't. 

UC is conducting case studies of selected California schools to evaluate the effects of a USDA grants program; farm-to-school tours show firsthand the benefits and challenges of providing farm-fresh produce to students.

$1 million endowment from Givaudan will allow for the creation of endowed chair position to support and maintain collection.