Food & Nutrition

Explore Oregon's Nutrition Education program and find out how it connects Oregonians to local and regional community food resources. Watch a video about the OSU Extension Portland Hispanic Nutrition program. Check out OSU's Food Innovation Center if you want to take your food products to market. The Food Hero website is an online resource for people who want to eat healthy meals.

Stories & Tips

Garden-based summer nutrition is a healthy partnership

The curriculum is based on data that shows kids are most likely to eat vegetables they grow themselves.

Héroe de Alimentos: Consejos para preparar comidas saludables

La idea es usar el Internet para conectarse con la gente y ofrecerles recursos para poder alimentarse de manera saludable.

Food Hero: Helpful messages for healthy eating

The idea is to use the Internet to connect with people and offer them tools for healthy eating.

Liquid versus Solid Calories

There is evidence that the body does not respond to calories in beverages the same way it does to calories in food. Your body may not register the calories you drink, so you could consume more calories than you need.

New federal dietary guidelines emphasize urgency

Urgency to improve the American diet became even more obvious as new federal dietary guidelines were released by the United States Department of Agriculture.