Healthy Eating
Easy, healthy recipes for your late-summer produce
Looking for ways to work more seasonal produce into your weeknight dinners? Start here with The Healthy Cook Kate Sherwood’s best summer recipes.
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Seasonal eating
As each new month arrives, it’s fun (and healthy!) to consider creative ways to incorporate seasonal produce into your routine. These peak-ripeness fruits and veggies are often more affordable than their hot-house or imported counterparts.
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The best fruit & veg right now
What’s in season: August produce guide
See what’s in store this month.
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Recipe of the Week
Stuffed Italian Eggplant
Peak season eggplant, fresh tomatoes and thyme make this a flavorful, simple weeknight meal.
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Easy, healthy, and free
Browse all free recipes
All of The Healthy Cook's recipes are delicious—find a new favorite!
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Chemical Cuisine
Our food additive safety ratings
Wondering which ingredients in your foods and beverages are safe? Our Chemical Cuisine database rates additives—used to preserve foods and affect their taste, texture, or appearance—from ‘safe' to 'avoid.'
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Caffeine Chart
How much is too much?
Caffeine is one of the only FDA-approved drugs that is present naturally and legally added to widely consumed foods. Exactly how much caffeine is there in the food and beverages you consume? CSPI has compiled the data.
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Banning Red 3
Where is Red 3 legal?
CSPI’s interactive map tracks which states have introduced or passed legislation to ban the carcinogenic color additive Red 3 from foods and beverages.
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Tell Chain Restaurants: Cut the Salt
Sign our petition to tell the restaurants with some of the saltiest menu items in the country to cut the salt!
From Nutrition Action
What to know about the risks of PFAS
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How wildfire smoke can harm your heart, lungs, brain & more
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Store-bought pre-seasoned tofu: Which is best?
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How heat waves can kill...and how to stay safe
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Why Spindrift's low-sugar seltzers are a find
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Booklet
The Healthy Cook's Kitchen: Seafood
Eat seafood once or twice a week. That’s what health experts recommend. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a stable of simple, scrumptious, and healthy recipes to help you get there? That’s where we come in! In the third installment of The Healthy Cook’s Kitchen series, chef Kate Sherwood shares some of her favorite recipes. How does Poached Provencal White Fish sound? Or Snapper Tacos with Avocado Salsa? Mmm…