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Dec 3, 2019

PHHI team lands $12.8 Million to improve fruit quality of Blueberry and Cranberry

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – With a long-term goal of improving blueberry and cranberry based on producer and consumer interests, NC State University scientists, Massimo Iorizzo, Mary Ann Lila and Penelope Perkins-Veazie, were… 

Oct 7, 2019

How Epigenetics Could Change How We Grow Food

To understand epigenetics, nutrition, and the work of Dr. Tzung-Fu Hsieh, it helps to begin long before he was even born, back during World War II. In fall of 1944,… 

Aug 9, 2019

A Nutritional Shift: This Metabolome Library Might Change Our Understanding of Food and Health

How do foods cause, prevent, or manage disease? Which ones are the most helpful? Our understanding of the connections between food and health has been fairly rudimentary. It’s involved reverse… 

Jun 20, 2019

Can a healthy diet combat the effects of pollution?

A diesel engine isn’t a typical piece of equipment found in a biology lab. But it’s just one of the unique lab instruments in the environmental toxicology lab of Giuseppe… 

May 16, 2019

New Faculty: Andrew Neilson

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – The interaction of the gut microbiome with human health is an emerging field in biology, nutrition and medicine.  With the addition of Andrew Neilson, Ph.D., NC State University’s Plants for Human… 

Apr 12, 2019

New Faculty: Abdulkerim Eroğlu

Abdulkerim “Kerim” Eroğlu, PhD, set up his nutrigenomics lab at the NC Research Campus in August 2018 when he joined the Plants for Human Health Institute. He was featured in… 

Feb 14, 2018

FFAR Awards $1 Million Grant to Improve Health through Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

WASHINGTON, February 13, 2018 –  The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), a nonprofit established in the 2014 Farm Bill with bipartisan congressional support, awarded a $1 million Seeding Solutions… 

Dec 14, 2017

High School Culinary Student finds Recipe for Success

KANNAPOLIS, NC — For an eager culinary arts student, the challenge was intriguing: Find a palatable culinary use for watermelon concentrate. Samuel Jijon (Sammy), a senior at A.L. Brown High… 

Oct 24, 2017

Cooking challenge has kids clamoring for a taste of fresh lettuce

Chef Mark and his fifth grade sous-chefs first did a demo preparing the Star Wars Fruit Salad and all the fifth grade students got sampling. Then, two teams faced off… 

Aug 25, 2017

PHHI Extension and Lowe’s Heroes install grant-awarded school garden

CONCORD- When Pitts School Road Elementary students go back to school next week, they will be surprised by a colorful, new garden set up to teach them lessons across all…