McDonald’s Big Arch is the unhealthiest burger on their menu Here’s what’s in the new McDonald’s Big Arch burger and why it has more calories, unhealthy fat, sodium, and added sugars than any other burger on the menu.

April Fools! The Big Arch is actually the unhealthiest burger on their menu. With 1,020 calories, 25 grams of saturated fat, 1,760 milligrams of sodium, and 10 grams of added sugars, the Big Arch is like eating a stack of FOUR McDonald’s hamburgers.

Best to leave this one behind the counter.

The McDonald's Big Arch burger is actually surprisingly healthy! Read more 👇🧵

Flatten Big Soda: Let's make sugary drink ads history It’s time to make sweetened beverage advertising a relic of the past. Flatten Big Soda combines public pressure and policy to flatten soda marketing and sales.

Soda giants have marketed sugary drinks aggressively for over a century, spending more than $11 billion combined in 2024 on ads and promoting sweetened drinks in a way that supports their bottom line—not our health.

It's time to Flatten Big Soda! 👇

This is part of a massive recall by Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc, announced on February 19th that initially impacted over 3 million pounds of food products sold in stores nationwide.

The expanded recall includes an additional 9,885,240 pounds of the Trader Joe's Vegetable Fried Rice product 👇

Graphic with bold red headline “RECALL ALERT UPDATE” on a white background, bordered by yellow caution symbols. Text reads: “10 million more pounds of Trader Joe’s products potentially contaminated with glass.” Below the text are images of several Trader Joe’s frozen items, including Vegetable Fried Rice, Japanese Style Fried Rice with edamame and tofu, Chicken Fried Rice, and Chicken Shu Mai dumplings

🚨RECALL ALERT UPDATE🚨Trader Joe’s is expanding its recall of four frozen products due to the possibility of being contaminated with glass.

CSPI has joined with 67 other organizations to write a letter to EPA Administrator Zeldin demanding that he rescind his recent firings of 19 agency employees. At a time when the EPA is already lacking sufficient staff, firing these civil servants without replacement is a mistake.

Lentiful review: Need an easy way to eat more lentils? If you’re trying to eat more beans and lentils, Lentiful cups check all the boxes: fiber, protein, and flavor without too much salt, sugar, or saturated fat.

On top of that, there’s little or no saturated fat (up to 1½ grams) or added sugars (up to 2 grams). And the sodium (350 to 460 milligrams) is reasonable for a plant-protein entrée—it’s no more than 20 percent of the 2,300 mg DV. Well done!

Lentils and beans also offer vitamins and minerals that aren’t listed on a typical packaged food’s Nutrition Facts label, including folate, magnesium, and zinc.

Because every Lentiful cup is mostly lentils—or lentils plus beans—it’s a compact bundle of nutrients:

▪️ Fiber: 6 or 7 grams
▪️ Protein: 12 grams
▪️ Iron: 20 percent of the Daily Value (DV)
▪️ Potassium: 8 to 10 percent of the DV

When we saw Lentiful, a newcomer to the bean-and-lentil corner of the supermarket, we decided to take it for a spin in our microwave. The verdict: There’s a lot to like.

(Any products we recommend—like these lentils—have been vetted by our staff and are not advertisements by the manufacturers.)

FISC: Does ‘a strong FDA’ actually mean ‘weaker states’? The Food Ingredient Safety Coalition (FISC), a food industry group quietly making the rounds in state legislatures, aims to stop food safety laws in the states.

Two industry-backed groups - the Food Ingredient Safety Coalition and Americans for Ingredient Transparency - quietly started started making the rounds in state legislatures and with public messages promoting "a strong federal system" governing food safety.

But is that what they really want?

Tell Congress to Boost Funding for Healthy Food at Daycares Eligible daycares can serve federally subsidized healthy meals and snacks, but many can’t afford to. Tell your Representative to support increased reimbursement for the Child and Adult Care Food Progr...

Daycares need help! We need Congress to prioritize increasing funding for the Child and Adult Care Food Program. Tell your Representative to support the Child Care Nutrition Enhancement Act!

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Greater Transparency at the FDA This Viewpoint considers the US Food and Drug Administration’s track record for transparency and urges the agency to fortify transparency efforts.

Transparency in the premarket review of drugs and devices is critical, but there are persistent gaps in the FDA's practices. I joined with CSPI senior policy scientist Dr. Irene Ulrich in @jama.com to outline 32 specific recommendations to improve FDA transparency, and to urge the FDA to act.

Strengthening Hawaiʻi’s food systems: How Farm to Food Bank bridges farmers, food banks & local communities The Hawaiʻi Public Health Institute (HIPHI) is working to change that by advancing Farm to Food Bank, a statewide program that provides funding for food banks to purchase food directly from Hawaiʻi fa...

Read more about the amazing work HIPHI is doing at the article below! 👇

Across Hawaiʻi, local farmers work tirelessly to grow the food that sustains their islands. Many of them struggle to keep their farms afloat, and families also struggle to put nutritious food on the table. The Hawaii Public Health Institute is working to change that!

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One Food All Americans Can Agree On The humble bean is the solution to America’s nutritional chaos.

We love seeing beans get the recognition they deserve. We're bean-thusiasts! 😊🫘

Good ruling here! Let’s see how it holds up as it moves through the courts 🤞

Reimagining a world where Black Children are healthy and celebrated for their strengths and power NCBDI was founded in 1970 and is the only national organization focused solely on the unique attributes and needs of Black children, birth through age 8. Within this vibrant space, we’ve been able to ...

Our CSPI partner spotlight shines on the Black Child Development Institute in San Francisco! BCDI-San Francisco was launched in June 2025 as a new organization to mobilize communities to support the health, safety, and wellbeing of Black children and families.

Read the full spotlight below!

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins wants you to think a momentous change is coming to a food retailer near you, that "healthier options will be in reach for all American families."

Unfortunately, this is misleading.

CSPI's Eva Greenthal argues that this rule falls short, but adding nutrition requirements could fix it.

Read her op-ed 👇 (2/2)

Graphic design of Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins wearing an "Eat Real Food" t-shirt. Pictures of Fruity Pebbles, Del Monte Peach Halves, Cheesy Potato Casserole, and SPAM are to her right.

Is this what HHS and USDA mean by "Eat Real Food?" Currently, foods like canned peaches in heavy syrup, Fruity Pebbles cereal, cinnamon roll-flavored yogurt, and SPAM would comply with the administration’s new proposed retail stocking standards rule. (1/2)

Promotional graphic for a CSPI Resource Hub Series webinar titled “From Seed to System: Black-Led Strategies for Food, Farming, & Community Wealth,” hosted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The event is on Wednesday, March 25th from 3–4:30 PM EST. The bottom of the image shows a sequence of seedlings growing from soil against a blurred green background.

Join us on Wednesday, March 25th from 3pm - 4:30pm ET for an honest, deeply grounded conversation on Black food sovereignty and the community-led efforts reshaping how food, land, and power intersect!

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The healthiest nut or seed butters: 10 things to know Most nut butter is simple. But picking a healthy one that isn’t too high in saturated fat or sugar isn’t always easy. Here’s what may—or may not—matter to you.

This info comes from Nutrition Action. We don’t accept any paid advertising or corporate or government donations. Any products we recommend have been vetted by our staff and are not advertisements by the manufacturers. They’re just healthier foods we think you’d like to know about!

Picture of a jar Smucker's Natural Peanut Butter on a grocery store shelf.

Did you know that some of the healthiest nut butters have just one or two ingredients? Just nuts (or seeds) and maybe salt.

The fats in those need-to-stir varieties come from the nuts or seeds themselves, so you’re largely getting unsaturated fat. And most of these don’t add any sugars, either!

I was glad to speak at @standupforscience.bsky.social in Washington D.C. this past Saturday to remind us all of the many fireable offenses RFK, Jr. has committed while in office, and to encourage the science community to not lose hope.

#StandUpForScience

"When RFK, Jr. said 'I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me,' that's the one time he got it right!"

On Saturday, CSPI's @drpeterlurie.bsky.social spoke at Stand Up For Science in D.C., reiterating the call to fire RFK, Jr. and to restore trust in science!

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Ensure Schools can Keep Serving Healthy Meals to 30 Million Students Congress must boost school nutrition funding to guarantee healthy school breakfasts and lunches for students. Tell your Representatives to voice their support for school meals.

With food costs on the rise, it’s critical that Congress prioritizes increasing school meal reimbursements to ensure kids can receive delicious and nutritious options at school. Tell your representatives to do the right thing and support the Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act!

Over 30 million students rely on school breakfast and lunch, and all kids should be able to count on a healthy meal during the school day. For some kids, this is the only guaranteed meal they’ll have all day. So why not make it a good one?