Food & Drink

Scientists just mapped 68 quadrillion miles of fungal networks under our feet — and the climate story everyone's been telling about forests is missing where 11% of human emissions actually go

Adults who go grocery shopping at the same store on the same day at the same time aren't stuck in routine, they built a small piece of the week where nobody asks anything of them and the lights are always on

The people who sit down to eat instead of standing at the counter aren't being formal

Adults who became plant-based after sixty aren't chasing longevity or trends, many of them spent a lifetime cooking what other people wanted and finally have nobody to feed but themselves

Meat industry-funded studies are 16 times more likely to call meat healthy than independent research — and the part that should worry you isn't the funding, it's what half of those papers failed to disclose

People who suddenly become curious about cooking in their 60s aren't just filling time — they may be reclaiming a daily ritual that was outsourced to obligation for most of their adult lives

Adults who keep a stocked pantry larger than they need aren't preparing for disaster, they grew up in households where running out of something meant a small but real shame, and the pantry is the quiet promise that the shame won't return

Most people don't realise that what looks like picky eating in someone over sixty is often the first time in their life they've felt safe enough to admit they never liked half the things they spent forty years eating to be polite

UC Santa Barbara scientists just built a liquid that stores sunlight for years at nearly double a lithium battery's energy density — and the part worth noticing isn't the chemistry, it's what gets subtracted

Two Perfect Day veterans just raised $2 million for a precision fermentation startup that isn’t chasing dairy substitutes anymore

Mars Petcare just quietly tilted its alternative-protein hunt toward Asia-Pacific — and the reason has less to do with pet food innovation than with collapsing birth rates reshaping who fills the family bowl

The EU just put €10M behind a London startup’s whole-cut mycelium steak, and its foodservice-first rollout shows why this alt-protein bet is different

Research suggests people who eat alone in restaurants without their phone aren't necessarily lonely or socially awkward — some may no longer need a witness to feel at ease

A four-week diet trial in adults over 65 found biological-age markers shifted most on a lower-fat, higher-carb plate, not a fat-heavy one

Psychology research suggests people who regularly eat meals with others may be among the happiest. Shared dining is linked to higher life satisfaction and a deeper sense of belonging

Adults who keep a clean kitchen even when nobody's coming over may have learned early that mess meant the house felt less steady

Psychology says people who stack their plates and tidy up before leaving a restaurant aren't trying to impress anyone — they may be revealing a deeply internalized respect for invisible labor

Danone shuts 25-year-old Silk plant as plant-based milk category splinters into winners and losers

Prodalim buys Better Juice as sugar fatigue and GLP-1 drugs rewrite the beverage playbook

Petroleum is in your vanilla, your chicken, and your fertilizer — and almost nobody talks about it