When are fruit and vegetables in season across Europe? EUFIC has created a pioneering tool for you to explore and follow a more sustainable diet. On the map you will see Europe’s six climatic regions.

We aim to live a healthy life and it has become a hot topic of debate in the media and society to describe what healthy living is. Healthy living is having the opportunity, capability and motivation ...

Food processing is any method used to turn fresh foods into food products. This can involve one or a combination of the following: washing, chopping, pasteurising, freezing, fermenting, packaging and ...

Laura joined EUFIC in 2002 as Scientific Advisor, and has since contributed to the growth of the organisation fulfilling different functions throughout the years. She leads the organisation since ...

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The World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Health conditions, like illnesses, ...

Healthy eating is a crucial part of keeping us healthy. For good health, we need more than 40 different nutrients, and no single food can supply them all - we need a wide variety of foods. Poor, ...

Erfahren Sie mehr über unsere neuesten Aktivitäten und werfen Sie einen Blick auf unsere Food Facts-Zusammenfassungen, um falsche Informationen über Lebensmittel und Gesundheit in den Medien zu ...

Food packages are labelled to provide us with information about a product we might want to buy in the supermarket. The labels include nutrition information (e.g., how much of a certain nutrient or ...

Food choice refers to how people decide on what to buy and eat. A complex set of factors that vary from person to person and depend on culture, heritage and up-bringing all influence food choice. We ...

Where do we go from here? When humans first became settled agriculturists and started to grow food for use all year round, we developed an intimate knowledge and a close involvement with the sources ...

I bioattivi sono composti che generalmente si trovano in piccole quantità negli alimenti e possono essere benefici per la salute. A differenza dei macro- e micronutrienti essenziali (come grassi, ...