Sean Cash

Food economist on faculty at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @TuftsNutrition, @TuftsUniversity. Nutrition, ag, food, environment, stats.

[JAMA Network Open @JAMANetworkOpen]

RCT: Both a continuous Food Compass Score and a binary FDA label increased healthy + decreased unhealthy supermarket purchases; the continuous score increased healthy purchases 1.75x vs the binary label and decreased no-purchases. @SeanBCash https://t.co/vMOQUGQYom

[Tufts University @TuftsUniversity]

The Tufts Tuition Pact is meant to ensure that students from all socioeconomic backgrounds, including middle-income families, know that a Tufts education is within reach. | @TuftsAdmissions

Learn more: https://t.co/6MOAZdopWl

[Sean Cash @SeanBCash]

New work from our group on the dietary quality of foods purchased at #DollarStores

[Tufts University @TuftsUniversity]

Although food purchased at dollar stores tends to be less healthy compared with other food outlets, households are balancing this with more nutritious items purchased elsewhere, Tufts researchers find.

https://t.co/HntM8JPpuq

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

First-of-its-kind study alert! 🚨
What happens when real people taste cultivated meat at a public tasting event—just 4 days before a state ban takes effect? Do people see personal and cultural value in CM?

We found out. And the results are complex-- and hopeful. 🧵

[Suzi Gerber, PhD @ChefSuziGerber]

Read our fresh off the presses open-access article now:
“It’s supposed to be real meat”: An analysis of media coverage of the first U.S. approval of cell-cultivated chicken in Future Foods— NOW! https://t.co/CUdTQFjTKW @SeanBCash

[Sean Cash @SeanBCash]

Tea and tariffs: Trade war places popular beverage in the crosshairs https://t.co/5azAiqbSR2

[IFPRI @IFPRI]

📱 🚸 Food and beverage marketing has become increasingly common on social media.

A recent study conducted a systematic review of studies published over the past 12 years related to the effects of digital food marketing on children and adolescents: https://t.co/ri7uq7IDSZ
@CGIAR

[Sean Cash @SeanBCash]

Ultra-processed foods researcher leaves NIH, alleges censorship https://t.co/iKMr7UIfbj

[World Food Policy Center at Duke @DukeWFPC]

Do food labels really influence kids' snack choices? https://t.co/m8yi1GPX9w
#seancash #gabrielafretes #IFPRI #Tufts #Chilefoodlabelinglaws #Childfoodadvertisinglaws #youthsnackfoodchoices #nutritionwarninglabels #frontofpackagefoodlabels #FOP #sustainablepackaging #ecolabels

[IFPRI @IFPRI]

In this 🆕 🗞️ @gabifretes, Paula Veliz, Ana Maria Narvaez, D’Arcy Williams, Romain Sibille, Maaike Arts, and Jef Leroy conducted a narrative review of digital marketing of unhealthy foods and drinks towards youth in LAC: https://t.co/BguQ4ivOtd

@CGIAR @UNICEF @uniceflac

[Sean Cash @SeanBCash]

The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation https://t.co/89YA7wobtw

[IFPRI @IFPRI]

🥫 Front-of-pack labels can be useful tools to improve young consumers' food choices.

This recent study assessed youth's purchasing behavior by conducting an online discrete choice experiment in Santiago, #Chile: https://t.co/sa4wvajikt

[IFPRI @IFPRI]

🆕 📄 Front-of-pack labels and young consumers: An experimental investigation of #nutrition and #sustainability claims in #Chile

✍️ By @gabifretes, Norbert L.W. Wilson, Camila Corvalan, Christina D. Economos, and Sean B. Cash.

🔗 https://t.co/sa4wvajikt

[Sean Cash @SeanBCash]

@WylinDWilson @NYUpress @CoriolisCo @millennwomanism @blkwomenstudies @citeblackwomen @bwm_famu @JustWomanist Congrats Wylin!

[Sean Cash @SeanBCash]

Does FDA’s proposed front-of-pack nutrition labeling miss the mark? https://t.co/DFQuUel0xW

[Sean Cash @SeanBCash]

@michaelgaosj @uarkaeab @UArkansas Congrats Shijun!

[Sean Cash @SeanBCash]

Congrats @LauLaraC on leading this important work on the worldwide disease burden of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.

[Tufts University @TuftsUniversity]

Millions of cases of diabetes and heart disease occur each year globally due to consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, says new research from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

https://t.co/7EP6pCC20B

[Sean Cash @SeanBCash]

A nice summary of the research that @ChefSuziGerber, Sadie Dix and I did comparing marketing of plant-based and animal-sourced foods in online retail, via @faunalytics | The Marketing Landscape Of Online Groceries https://t.co/5fOLwL6fgf

[Economic Research Service @USDA_ERS]

More than one quarter of U.S. food dollar was paid to wholesale and retail trade establishments in 2023

Learn more in today's Chart of Note: https://t.co/1d3vi6l8y7

[Sean Cash @SeanBCash]

"Figuring out the social impacts of a food is very different than figuring out its environmental impacts ... it requires not only different data but also a different data collection approach." @nt_blackstone on social aspects of sustainable diets, more@ https://t.co/sMzHigem9x