What Is Our Food Really Made Of? - Interconnected Earth Most of us don’t eat food the way our grandparents did. We eat products. They are engineered to travel long distances, sit on shelves for months, survive heat and cold, and still trigger pleasure…

Shelf life, profit margins, and engineered bliss points quietly shape modern food. This piece looks at how everyday products are actually built.
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#FoodScience #FoodPolicy #ConsumerAwareness #FoodEconomics #InterconnectedEarth

What Is Our Food Really Made Of? - Interconnected Earth Most of us don’t eat food the way our grandparents did. We eat products. They are engineered to travel long distances, sit on shelves for months, survive heat and cold, and still trigger pleasure…

Shelf life, profit margins, and engineered bliss points quietly shape modern food. This piece looks at how everyday products are actually built.
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#FoodScience #FoodPolicy #ConsumerAwareness #FoodEconomics #InterconnectedEarth

Ozempic Is Shrinking More Than Waistlines, It’s Slashing Americans’ Food Bills As GLP-1 weight-loss drugs become more common, their effects may be reshaping everyday food choices in ways that extend far beyond individual health. When people in the United States begin using appetite-suppressing...

Ozempic Is Shrinking More Than Waistlines, It’s Slashing Americans’ Food Bills #Science #HealthandMedicine #Nutrition #Ozempic #FoodEconomics #HealthTrends

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What really drives UK shoppers when they pick up a block of cheddar? 🧀

Read our new case study by researchers at @srucnews.bsky.social and @rowettinstitute.bsky.social.

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#FoodEconomics #ScottishFood

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Does giving a food product a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) label actually boost its market value? 🧀

Find out in our new case study from researchers at @srucnews.bsky.social & @rowettinstitute.bsky.social.

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#FoodEconomics #OrkneyCheddar #FoodScience

Teaching resources – Food Economics

For university courses about #FoodEconomics, a full set of class slides, weekly exercises, & exams is now available for use with the free online textbook from @afinaret.bsky.social and me. Audience is advanced undergrads and first-year grad students using graphical diagrams, examples and global data

Headline Edition - Averagely Incorrect News Headline Edition returns with a range of highly inaccurate reporting by experts in the field.

📣 New Podcast! "Headline Edition - Averagely Incorrect News" on @Spreaker #citylife #communitysupport #costofliving #economicimpact #fanjoy #foodeconomics #foodpricerise #footballfever #highmeatcosts #lionessescelebration #londonevents #londonparade #newyorkshooting #opentopbus #publicsafety

Explore #GroceryPrices across major #US cities in 2025. From mushrooms at $3/kg to tomatoes at $2/kg, see where your money goes further. Powered by #IWebDataScraping

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#USFoodCosts #FoodEconomics #GrocerySpending #CostOfLivingReport #DataDrivenDecisions #USA #UK #UAE

Learning Lab: Teaching food economics for agriculture, nutrition, and health Economics offers powerful tools to build skills and solve problems in the food system, but ANH Academy members often have little or no knowledge of how economics could help them reach their career goa...

Do you teach #FoodEconomics #FoodEcon and want a jump-start and some time and space to develop materials and plan your course?

Register for our free Online Learning Lab with the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy: www.anh-academy.org/academy-week...

Next week 6/16 Monday 8am-10am EDT.

Learning Lab: Teaching food economics for agriculture, nutrition, and health Economics offers powerful tools to build skills and solve problems in the food system, but ANH Academy members often have little or no knowledge of how economics could help them reach their career goa...

If you #TeachEcon and cover agriculture & nutrition, on Monday June 16th we'll have a big online ANH Learning Lab online with @afinaret.bsky.social about #FoodEconomics.

Textbook etc. is here: sites.tufts.edu/foodeconomics, and link below to free registration at @anhacademy.bsky.social:

🗓️ Get ready for ANH2025 in 🇹🇿Tanzania and 💻online

It's not too late to register for (free) online ANH Learning Labs from @anhacademy.bsky.social, June 16-18. Each is a 2hr interactive session on topics like #FoodEconomics, #CostOfHealthyDiets and others, the week before in-person meetings in Tanzania. Details:
www.anh-academy.org/form/anh2025...

The Real Reasons We Don’t Eat Turkey Eggs Quail, chicken, duck? All good, and then a mysterious line is drawn.

Never tried #turkey eggs but apparently they taste like #chicken. They're generally not eaten, and in the end, turns out it's more about economics than science.

#FoodForThought
#TurkeyEggs #FoodFacts #FoodEconomics #DidYouKnow #EggFacts #Poultry

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6/10 Canadian counter-tariffs strategically target items with domestic alternatives. "They put them on things that were highly substitutable," explains University of Guelph food economist Mike von Massow, allowing flexibility for cost-conscious consumers.
#BuyCanadian #FoodEconomics

Food economics: Teaching for the future of agriculture, nutrition, and health This article introduces “Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health,” a new open access textbook that helps equip students with the skills needed to analyze complex food systems issues and co...

Everything you wanted to know about teaching #FoodEconomcis but were too afraid to ask.
In AEPP here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#FoodEconomics site w/ links to preprints: sites.tufts.edu/foodeconomics/

Sign up for updates with #teaching materials: elist.tufts.edu/sympa/subscr...

Interestsed in resources to help you teach (or learn!) #FoodEconomics?

Our new Open Access textbook is here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

With the #AEPP explainer paper just published yesterday for a quick glance at the whole thing: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of abstract for article on Food Economics

Analytical diagram showing economic principles to explain, predict and assess changes in what farmers produce and consume

Scatterplot of GINI coefficients at each level of per capita income

New article with @afinaret.bsky.social explains our #FoodEconomics book, using analytical diagrams and data visualizations to offer accessible insights for general readers, #TeachEcon instructors & students.
In AEPP (gated): doi.org/10.1002/aepp...
Preprint & resources: sites.tufts.edu/foodeconomics

Online Tool Tests How Taxes Affect Sugar-Sweetened Drink Purchases | Newswise Virginia Tech researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC created the Experimental Beverage Marketplace to test the potential effects of these tax proposals on purchasing and consum...

Online Tool Tests How Taxes Affect Sugar-Sweetened Drink Purchases
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#sugar #HealthPolicy #foodeconomics #healthbehaviors

Improving Access to Healthy Diets Is ‘Clearly Actionable’ Economist Will Masters says there are clear steps to improve access to healthy diets. They just need to be implemented.

Blog post from @foodtank.bsky.social summarizes this week's podcast conversation with Dani Nierenberg, offering a quick summary of #FoodPricesForNutrition, sustaining ourselves and rebuilding after Trump, and other #FoodEconomics work at @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social
#TeachEcon #EconSky #FoodSky

Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank): 484. The U.S. Pushes for a ‘Back to Basics’ Approach at FAO, the Latest on Humanitarian Aid Funding, Advice for Young People Coming of Age, and a convers... On Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg, Dani speaks with Will Masters, a Professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, with a secondary appointment in Tufts University's Departm...

Podcast listeners, the latest Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg from @foodtank.bsky.social starts with the latest news, then a step back with me to what we've found about #FoodPrices and #DietCosts, as well as #FoodEconomics more generally. That segment begins at the 7:50 mark:

Ep. 11 Co-author of 'Food Economics' and Tufts University Professor of Food/Nutrition Policy and Economics "Once you do economics enough to appreciate its virtues, you realize that it's just a profoundly human endeavor that's deeply rooted in culture and history of health and nutrition."

A break from the news -- high schooler Amelia Cho has a fun podcast about food, asking lots of great questions about #FoodEconomics research & teaching. Excellent earlier interviews include @dlortega.bsky.social, Michael Jacobson about the @nationalfoodmuseum.bsky.social, etc., all on Substack:

Food in the Macroeconomy: The Whole is More Than the Sum of its Parts This chapter shows how the food system interacts with society and the economy as a whole. That larger macroeconomy involves the circular flow of goods and services exchanged among people within each c...

PS, before "reciprocal" tariffs linked macro balances to bilateral trade, the traditional approach to macroeconomics for food policy is chapter 9 of the #FoodEconomics book. We'll need a second edition soon, right @afinaret.bsky.social?

Class slide showing White House announcements of "reciprocal" tariffs

Class slide on aggregate trade deficits offset by capital inflows

Class slide with map of bilateral "reciprocal" tariffs, and average U.S. tariff rates over time

It's macro week in my #FoodEconomics class. We'll start with the new tariffs, then economywide balances, inflation and unemployment. Plenty of motivation to #TeachEcon at @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social now!

For #EconSky, the current account balance chart is via FRED: fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=D3IM

Yesterday afternoon's #FoodEconomics class started with real-time reaction to the new tariffs, showing websites of media outlets like the Wall Street Journal. A student asked to see Fox News. Here's the two, live from the classroom camera around 4:30pm. One owner, two audiences. #TeachEcon #EconSky

Ever wonder why your favorite cafe's latte price jumped? 📈 Next time you see a menu change,remember there's a whole story behind those numbers ☕️ What's the biggest menu price shock you've experienced? 👇 #MenuPrices #FoodEconomics #CafeLife #FoodieThoughts #marinasena #ValeTudo
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Why is breakfast so expensive? • Food Economics Grocery prices are back in the headlines -- this C-FARE newsletter summary shows how inflation dynamics play out for eggs, potatoes and other foods.

Food price changes are confusing, due in part to selection bias in what we see, read and hear about.

For #TeachEcon & #EconSky folks here's a short blog post on eggs, potatoes & other food inflation dynamics in the US, with live FRED data.

More #FoodEconomics from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social:

Why record-high egg prices won’t go down soon — and it’s not just due to bird flu A lot goes into the production of eggs — and with the Trump administration’s tariff policies potentially affecting costs for chicken feed and equipment, bird flu isn’t the only reason U.S. consumers m...

www.marketwatch.com/story/why-re...
Egg prices are leaving wallets scrambled! 🥚💸 With bird flu, rising costs, and new regulations in the mix, could $3–$3.50 per dozen become the 'new normal'? Share your thoughts on this egg-onomic dilemma! 🐓🍳 #FoodEconomics #PriceHike #EggTalk

Survey data showing that around 70% of Americans believe the government has a responsibility to regulate ultra-processed foods

Survey data showing that most Americans think the government should be more involved in our health

Most Americans want regulation of ultra-processed foods, and think the government should be more involved in our health.

Great data from Dan Frommer @fromedome.bsky.social:
newconsumer.com/trends/consu...
Lots to discuss in #FoodPolicy #FoodEconomics & #FoodSky @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social

Nice! Me too, and just FYI here is teaching material on how altering a payoff matrix changes incentives, potentially creating (or undermining) a culture of cooperation.

This example comes from having two young kids, trying to get them to play nicely & fight less. It's in the #FoodEconomics book:

‘Potato cartel’ colluded to artificially hike french fry, hash brown prices: lawsuits Just four companies – Lamb Weston, McCain Foods, the J.R. Simplot Company and Cavendish Farms – control 97% of the market, according to antitrust lawsuits.

My #FoodEconomics class did market power last week, just in time to see how potato processors companies might have formed a cartel via shared data on Circana's PotatoTrac platform, per @newyorkpost.bsky.social.

The story's even spicier when we look at the data. Next slide please...
1/2 #TeachEcon

Least-cost diets to teach optimization and consumer behavior, with applications to health economics, poverty measurement and international development The least-cost diet problem introduces students to optimization and linear programming using the health consequences of food choice. The authors provide a graphical example, Excel workbook, and Wor...

Can you guess what mix of foods would meet your nutrient needs? How expensive are those foods, and how do those diets compare to what people actually eat?

New #FoodEconomics article for instructors, students & researchers + Excel workbook here:
sites.tufts.edu/foodeconomic...

#EconSky #FoodSky