Savvy shoppers know the two golden rules of the supermarket: shop the perimeter, where the fresh produce is stashed, and never go to the grocery store hungry. Now, a series of new studies adds a third rule: eat an apple before you shop.
Category: consumer-behavior
We’re throwing away tons of fruits and veggies for not being pretty enough
Some criteria are rightly based on food-safety and shelf-life considerations, but many are manifestations of misguided normative ideas about what produce should look like. Cucumbers should be straight, cauliflower florets should be tightly held, and rhubarb stalks should be ruby red. If not, retailers tell farmers, consumers won’t buy them.
Americans Throw Out 40 Percent Of Their Food, Which Is Terrible For The Climate
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency announced their plan to tackle food waste in America, a problem that has grown by 50 percent since the 1970s.
Good For You, Better For Them: The Truth About Retailer Guarantees
Stores today seem almost to be begging customers to refund purchases. The latest example comes from Wal-Mart, which introduced a new money-back guarantee on produce: Customers don’t even have to bring back spoiled fruits and vegetables; showing a receipt is enough for a refund.
AAA: Voice-to-text devices worse driver distraction than cell phones
Think using hands-free technology to text, tweet or respond to e-mails while driving is safer than talking on a cell phone? You’re wrong, AAA says.
Wine-tasting: it’s junk science
Experiments have shown that people can’t tell plonk from grand cru. Now one US winemaker claims that even experts can’t judge wine accurately. What’s the science behind the taste?
Why She Drinks: Women and Alcohol Abuse
Women’s growing predilection for wine has a darker side—and the only way to deal with it is to acknowledge the profound differences between how women and men abuse alcohol.
How To Make Worldwide Brain News (No News And Very Little Brain Required!)
The term “digital dementia” wasn’t widely known until a story originating in South Korea recently broke around the world. According to certain doctors, an alarming percentage of Korean teenagers are suffering from degenerative memory loss attributed to the overuse of smartphones.
Why Healthy Eaters Fall for Fries
LAST Tuesday, Connor Moran, a limit-the-red-meat, increase-the-greens, eat-salad-for-lunch kind of guy, stopped into a Bronx Dunkin’ Donuts for his usual black coffee, no sugar, no cream.
He walked out with a sandwich of egg and bacon between two halves of a glazed doughnut.
Such is the puzzle of the food industry: American consumers, even otherwise healthy ones, keep choosing caloric indulgences rather than healthy foods at fast-food restaurants.
If You Know How a Cow Feels, Will You Eat Less Meat?
Inside a lab on the Stanford University campus, students experience what it might feel like to be a cow