2019 Food and Nutrition Hot Topics and New Theme Finder

Here are the hottest food and nutrition education topics based on our professional writers' recommendations, customer requests, nutrition research, post analytics, customer requests, news, and best selling book lists.

How-To Cooking Demos for Seasonal Items - this is always our most popular topic and the how-to section in Amazon Cookbooks reflects that people want science, everyday cooking, more science, family recipes, and "low-calorie, high-flavor taste"
Benefits of Family Meals and using MyPlate compartment plates to help kids eat more fruits and veggies
Plant Based Diet Basics: How to Plan Meals, New Foods, Benefits
Ethnic Food Discoveries: Asian is HOT! Vietnamese, Indian, Afghanistan, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and more! We see more ethnic foods in all grocery stores and the National Restaurant Association reports that global is the hottest and most consistent trend to date.
Sugar: How to Find It, How to Consume Less
Meal Planning Skill Building: Go interactive with your audience!
Tests and Quizzes: What Do We Know? What Did We Learn? Quizzes, puzzles, and tests are consistently popular.
Dietary Guidelines: They are so big and chocked full of information, find a page and review the lessons while waiting for 2020's update. All of our posts regarding the guidelines are always very popular.
Fiber and Nutrient Density: a great combo lesson and way for consumers to understand nutrient quality plus fiber and gut health are always popular. One dietitian author of F-Factor has had great success using fiber education to help people lose weight.
Weight Loss - a recent CDC survey found that half of all adults over the age of 20 have tried to lose weight over the past year and two thirds of all adults in the US are still overweight or obese.
Self Control - for better habits and weight loss success - October 2018 study and there are numerous studies on sleep and weight control
How Do We Define Healthy Food? Comfort Food! This is according to one foodservice director and health educator making a difference in K-12 cafeterias. It is a more positive term and strategy for kids than health food or whole food. More examples of positive terms along these lines are real foods, slow foods, and local foods.

All of these and more are in the new theme finder! The 2019 Nutrition Education Store Catalog of best and new products is ready now! This online PDF catalog features over fifty brand new 2019 nutrition education resources along with a delicious winter salad recipe handout. Some of our new products include: