Nutrition & Health

Beginning in school year 2022-2023, California will become the first state to implement a statewide Universal Meals Program for school children.

In April, I attended the Growing School Gardens Summit in Denver, Colorado, thanks to support from UCCE San Bernardino.

Plants they're just like us, with unique techniques for handling stress. To save one of the most important crops on Earth from extreme climate swings, scientists are mapping out plants' own stress-busting strategies.

The Nutrition Policy Institute's CalFresh Healthy Living evaluation team analyzed data from a stratified, random sample of 190 CalFresh Healthy Living-eligible school districts in California to better understand equitable school meal distribution and changes in meal participation during COVID-19 sch...

How much do you know about tadpole shrimp? First, they're neither tadpoles nor shrimp. Second, they're crustaceans and are pests of rice.

En un da caluroso y tras una larga caminata por los cultivos de ctricos, cebolla, papa y aguacate y ms vegetales, decenas de estudiantes se detenan en el refugio de sombra a tomar descanso y a degustar algo que les sorprendi.

On a hot day and after a long walk-through of farm fields full of citrus, onion, potato, avocado, and other fruits and vegetables, dozens of students stopped at a shade shelter to take a break and taste something that surprised them. An avocado ice popsicle.

Participation in CalFresh by eligible elderly Californians is estimated at 19% CalFresh Food, known nationally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and historically as the Food Stamp Program, is California's largest food assistance program and serves as the first line of defense a...

Ever heard of Carey's Equality? Do you know who discovered it? That would be UC Davis distinguished professor James R. Carey of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, who will present a departmental seminar at 4:10 p.m.

It's World Bee Day! How did that come about? One word: Slovenia. The Republic of Slovenia, rich in beekeeping history, asked the United Nations to proclaim an annual World Bee Day, and following a three-year international effort, the United Nations agreed to do so in December 2017.