nutrition

Kansas City community kitchens are seeing higher demand as food prices remain high and COVID-19 assistance disappears. The food bank Harvesters is focusing on rescuing food waste as one way to shore up its supplies as demand rises, and donations are down.

Many of the residents of the Ivanhoe neighborhood say getting to and from the grocery store creates one of the biggest barriers to accessing fresh food. A new program involving a passport and stamps will connect people to locally grown, healthy options.

As head dietician with the Kansas City Chiefs, Leslie Bonci uses her knowledge of nutrition to give the team a competitive edge each Sunday.

Colleagues, friends and family of Norge Jerome will gather on Sunday to remember the KU Medical Center faculty member for her work linking culture and diet in the study of public health outcomes, as well as for her support of education, service and the arts.

Labor issues are making staples of school dining hard to find, triggering the worst supply chain headaches these institutions have faced in years. "It's like a ginormous hurricane," says the nutrition services director at the Hickman Mills school district in Kansas City.

After the day’s meals are done on a recent Tuesday, Gilbert Community Schools director of food service Deb Purcell shuffles through a stack of papers....

Kansas goes further than any other state in kicking local and state government out of decisions about nutrition labels and portion sizes, leaving that and…

Cafeteria workers at Center Middle School are getting ready to cook up protein-rich breakfasts when kids come back on Wednesday.“So this here is our egg…

Michael Kraft likes to joke that he’s under pressure to come to the summer lunch program at Johnson County Library, Central Resource.Last year, his kids…

Segment 1: The state of water in Kansas.About three years ago, there were major concerns for the future of water in Kansas. Now that a few years have…

No matter how far fruits or vegetables travel, whether they’re grown organically or conventionally, they’re packed with vitamins, minerals and other…

Hungry kids need good food. Seems simple enough, right? Wrong. According to a Huffington Post article from February, school lunch programs are one of the…