Food Safety

Debunk Misleading

The tinned fish brain-health case rests on citations that do not support it

In August 2026, Real Simple ran a piece by Christina Manian, RDN, headlined "We Asked 3 Registered Dietitians to Name the Best Snack for Brain Health—They All Picked the Same One." The answer:

Aug 20

Debunk Misleading

Anti-sugar warnings are just “food anxiety” — and aspartame has no health risks

"Anti-sugar warnings are just 'food anxiety,' and artificial sweeteners like aspartame have no health risks."

Aug 5

Debunk Misleading

Plant-based milks wreak havoc on toddlers’ health — so make formula from raw milk instead

Most of the nutrition in this article is defensible. That is what makes it worth examining, and it is why this gets a D rather than an E.

Jul 25

News · Repackaged

Consumer Reports found lead and cadmium in dark chocolate. Here's what the numbers mean

A viral panic that tracked real lab testing. The measurements hold up; the threshold they're measured against has a strange history worth knowing.

Jul 25

News · Repackaged

Shriners Children's is warning about the molten sugar trend for a second year

A hospital repeating a burn warning a year later is a different signal from a hospital issuing one. The mechanism, and the baseline it sits on top of.

Jul 25

News · Original

H5N1 and raw milk: what actually happened, in order

Bird flu in dairy cattle has been unfolding since March 2024 in fragments. The sequence in one place, with sources — including the study that gets cited for the opposite of what it found.

Jul 25

Debunk False

Raw milk is safer and more nutritious than pasteurized milk

Raw milk is the rare wellness claim that fails on every axis at once — safety, nutrition, and its own internal logic. That last one is the interesting part, so we will spend most of our time there.

Jul 25