Nutrition, Family and Consumer Science
The Nutrition, Family, and Consumer Sciences program helps people better manage their family and personal resources. The program provides consumers -- especially the parents of young children -- with information in food and nutrition, food safety, food preservation, and money management. Training and information is also provided to health and education professionals such as nurses, foster care parents, home health aides residential care operators, and teachers.
Family Nutrition through Myplate
Programs
- Food Preservation/Food Safety
- Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program
- School Nutrition Education Program
Holiday Food Safety
Do you have questions about your Thanksgiving Dinner? How long to keep leftovers? Or how to clean your Turkey? See these resources and find out what you need to know.
Food Blog
Enjoy California sweet potatoes around the clock and calendar
Sweet potatoes are perhaps most familiar in the U.S. smothered with melted marshmallows in a Thanksgiving casserole. But baked, boiled or raw, they can be a healthful part of California cuisine any time of year. California is a significant producer of...
Obesity researchers leave no molecule unturned
The biennial Childhood Obesity Conference is taking place in Long Beach June 18-20. Book-ended by two world-class keynote speakers — Michael Moss, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter and author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food...