Most of us regard cooking oil as nothing more than a means to a non-sticking end. But (and this is a big, prepare-to-gag kind of but) the average American consumes a whopping 36 pounds of cooking oils per year—more than three times as much as in the...
Here’s a fact that might make you wonder why Willy Wonka isn’t president: Americans consume 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate each year, or approximately 12 pounds per person (about 1,200 Hershey Kisses). Most people would agree that eating this much chocolate is terrible for us: Commercial chocolates...
“The fewer trips to and fro the better,” answers Frank. “I’d say it’s stubbornness,” says G.J. “It’s a ‘macho’ thing,” adds Carlton. “Mostly, I think it’s laziness,” admits Douglas. “Because we can,” boasts Eian. These are just some of the replies I got when I surveyed a...
Having previously ranked dairy products and types of milk by how healthy they are, we’re now ranking categories of cheese (note, not specific brands—that would take several thousand years) because frankly, there’s nothing we’re not happy to completely ruin for ourselves. But before we dive into this...
I’m a firm believer that the perfect dip-to-chip ratio involves more dip than chip, which means I’m also a huge proponent of double-dipping, triple-dipping and even quadruple-dipping (and then sticking my fingers in and licking them). Now, it should be said that while I’m a double-dipper, I’m...
When my editor approached me about listing an assortment of salts in order of how healthy they are, I assumed that he’d gone crazy. I honestly believed that there was no possible way to meaningfully rank various types of salt by how good for us they are....
You may have been told by some desperate parent, in an effort to make you eat your cruciferous vegetables, that broccoli is “the toothbrush of the colon.” In our ongoing efforts to answer every dumb question we’ve ever had, we checked in with our favorite food expert,...
When it comes to ice cream, the trend of the last few years is to push weird flavor pairings hard—ones that theoretically shouldn’t compliment each other, but kinda do. Thanks to artisanal ice cream shops like Salt and Straw, Jeni’s and McConnell’s, flavors like Goat Cheese with...
I’ve written a lot about pizza, including why cold pizza is the best pizza, whether pizza for breakfast is healthier than cereal and if sausage on pizza is better for you than the crust. Clearly, I’m obsessed (or at the very least, infatuated) with pizza, but I’m also aware...
Conventional wisdom argues that whole-fat dairy products are less healthy than their low-fat counterparts. But because there’s no study on food that won’t be immediately contradicted by a different study, new findings published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition challenge this notion by suggesting that consuming...
For some strange reason, many humans have become completely infatuated with beans, as demonstrated by the incredible 300,000+ people who follow a Facebook page called Things Full of Beans That Shouldn’t Be Full of Beans. (The account is exactly what the name suggests—photos of beans in peculiar...
You’d be hard pressed to find a parent who thinks kids don’t eat too much sugar. After all, it’s everywhere, in everything, practically in the air we breathe. You already know there’s way too much sugar in a bowl of cereal. But, quick: How much sugar is...