This week EWG released the 2016 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™, including the annually updated EWG Dirty Dozen™ list. For the first time ever, strawberries leads the list for the product with the highest number of pesticide residues, displacing apples, which headed the list for the last five years running.

The world’s largest food corporations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars (some of it illegally) to avoid being required to label the genetically engineered ingredients in their products.

Crickets and other edible insects are delicious, environmentally sound and high in nutritional value.

Perhaps no health topic is subject to more controversy than dieting. There are raw diets, organic diets, and countless others, all available to any health-conscious person.

Dear EarthTalk: I’m in the market for a new set of non-stick cookware for my kitchen, and I’m wondering which type is healthiest?

Recent research reveals that the Soda Tax passed into law in 2014 in Mexico, may reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in the country.

Why does superior food production generate inferior income?

Seafood is packed full of important nutrients, proteins, vitamins and omega-3s. But lurking in our oceans is a hidden poison that is corrupting the purity of the world’s seafood supply — mercury.

It’s wise to take note of nutritional recommendations and trends, but the best guide will probably be your own body’s messages, telling you what it needs and how your diet and lifestyle are faring.

At Tulane’s Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine, students are learning to pair nutrition with allopathic care—and other schools are catching on.

In the featured documentary, CNN Money reporter Cristina Alesci goes behind the scenes to investigate “the vast system behind every meal,” looking at how our food system has changed in recent decades, and what it has done to food safety and human health.

Drinking 8 glasses of water a day is completely and totally unnecessary if eating any of these foods with relative consistency.

Although room temperature is one of the best ways to store fruit and vegetables in the short-term, due to our busy lives it is often difficult for us to preserve them without using a refrigeration source. Read these pro tips on storing the most popular produce so you can enjoy them when you want to while preventing spoilage.

Michael Pollan's PBS documentary "In Defense of Food" is based on Pollan's book by the same name. The title may seem odd at first. What kind of defense might food be in need of?

After living in the same town for 14 years, I decided it was finally time to meet my neighbors. My secret? Soup night.

Do you get moody and kind of mean if you don’t eat enough? … No? Me neither. (ahem)

Citrus fruit peels hold some amazing nutrient properties and they don't belong anywhere near a garbage can.

Companies like Coca-Cola and Monsanto were called out for conflicts of interest, leaving many in the public health sector to wonder if next year transparency might become the new normal.

In a place where coal’s legacy has left residents struggling, one family has a vision of a healthier future.

Their idealism gave rise to the local and organic food movement.

Research is showing that many vegetables are losing significant amounts of a number of nutrients.

The most severe drought in California’s recorded history is raising questions about its impact upon the nation’s food supply and production.

The Cornucopia Institute’s report, Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factory Farm Egg Production from Authentic Organic Agriculture, will empower consumers and wholesale buyers who want to invest their food dollars to protect hard-working family farmers that are in danger of being forced off the land by a landslide of eggs from factory farms.