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Feeling the strain of grocery store prices? WK Kellogg CEO Gary Pilnick’s cost-saving suggestion is simple: have a bowl of cereal for dinner. His campaign comes at a time when shoppers are spending the highest portion of their income on food compared to any other point in the last 30 years.Pilnick made the controversial suggestion during an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” last Wednesday (February 21). The CEO of Kellogg—which produces brands such as Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Corn Flakes, and Raisin…

A mother decided to leave a handwritten note in her daughter’s lunchbox after she came home complaining about a comment her teacher made at school.Caroline, who owns a company that sells eating utensils for small children named Pezzi, took to her TikTok account to reveal her three-year-old daughter, Evelyn, had arrived home one afternoon saying her teacher instructed her to eat her lunch in a certain order—beginning with her “good” foods and ending with the “bad” ones.For her toddler, the “good” foods were her sandwich…

I am in a kitchen shared by bio-based startups in San Francisco looking forward to a chocolate chip cookie. Having been diagnosed with prediabetes a few years ago, I usually stay well away from sweet treats. But I have a secret weapon: a sachet of Monch Monch, a proprietary plant fibre-based drink mix that has been engineered to expand in my stomach like a kitchen sponge and soak up sugar in food, rendering it unavailable for early absorption.The idea is that, locked in the “sponge”, a significant amount of the sugar will…

In "Super-Villain Classics" #1 (by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Vince Colletta, George Klein, and Jack Morelli), readers learn that before becoming Galactus, the cosmic entity was a humanoid-like creature named Galan from the planet Taa. Sadly, his technologically advanced world is destroyed, with the Sixth Cosmos coming to an end before the birth of a new universe. However, before dying with his people, Galan is contacted by the personification of the Multiverse, who merges his essence with him to be reborn in…

What the body does need is fiber, a nutrient found in vegetables, whole grains, and legumes that helps regulate the bowel and lower blood cholesterol and glucose levels. Only about 5 percent of Americans get the recommended amount of daily fiber, which is about 30 grams a day.The enzyme Zya is developing comes from a family called inulosucrases, and is naturally made by a strain of bacteria found in the human microbiome that’s capable of converting sugar to fiber in the gut environment. This enzyme acts on sugar before it…

While most of us can probably scratch together a decent dish or two, baking is a whole ‘nother ball game. There is no touch and go, no feeling, just cold, heartless measurements and temperatures that have to be achieved. Naturally, things tend to go wrong all the time. We’ve gathered the worst cake-baking and decorating fails people thought had to be shared online. From decoration “art” that might inspire horror, to cakes so poorly baked they don’t even hold together, get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your…

Research from Tufts University indicates that women who consume more plant-based proteins are less likely to develop chronic diseases and maintain better health into older age. The study, analyzing data from over 48,000 women, highlights the benefits of plant proteins over animal proteins for heart health, mental health, and overall longevity, recommending a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, with some fish and animal protein for essential nutrients.A recent study led by Tufts University discovered that…

For polar bears, summertime is definitely not when the living is easy.They are apex predators, mighty hunters, and as Inuit and research scientists have long known, they prefer a good fatty meal of seal, caught from the sea ice.But during the times of the year when there is no sea ice — and those times are getting longer, due to human-caused climate change — pickings are much more meagre.In a new study published Tuesday in Nature Communications led by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), scientists used GPS tracking, video…

OpenAI is reportedly developing a search app that would directly compete with Google Search, according to The Information on Wednesday. The AI search engine could be a new feature for ChatGPT, or a potentially separate app altogether.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Microsoft Bing would allegedly power the service from Sam Altman, which could be the most serious threat Google Search has ever faced. Current AI-enabled search engines from Google and Perplexity answer your questions…

Reddit Every few months, a post pops up on one of the various subreddits I follow with a desperate user showing off horrific photos of ants crawling around inside their gaming PC. That’s exactly what happened to u/Thejus_Parol, who posted on r/pcmasterrace with some true nightmare fuel (spotted by Tom’s Hardware). In this case, pesky fire ants made their through the dense componentry of the graphics card, ending up at the GPU itself. As is usually the case with these stories, the ants started eating the thermal paste…