JacobFoods - Nutrition

06/04/2026

There’s mold in children’s candy?

05/31/2026

I used to not even know what a study was

05/27/2026

Fast food companies are now learning they can use government adjacency to boost sales.

Steak n’ Shake hired a former government advisor for the HHS to work as their “Chief MAHA Officer”, who has made changes like swapping seed oils for beef tallow when deep frying, replacing normal Coca Cola with cane sugar Coca Cola, removing microwaves, and using A2 milk instead of normal milk. It almost doesn’t require explanation how these are not health swaps at all, despite the company labeling it a “health overhaul”.

Steak n’ Shake described their new employee, Michael Boes, as someone who played a “pivotal role“ in the controversial new dietary guidelines, which claimed to no longer demonize “healthy fats” (saturated fats), despite the actual recommendations staying the same from the previous guidelines.

To me, this just seems like a fast food corp trying to profit off of a popular health movement which at its core is not a health movement at all, but rather a business move.

Unsurprisingly, people who are usually critical of “big food” are staying silent right now. Wonder why.

What are your thoughts?

05/26/2026

Have you ever noticed that sometimes the same amount of protein can have a different “% Daily Value” on a nutrition label?

Probably not. But I’m going to tell you about why it can happen.

PDCAAS is a scale from 0-1 based on both protein digestibility and the amount of essential amino acids (the protein building blocks we need to eat to survive) in a food.

While it is a useful scale in isolation, we do not eat foods in isolation, and in a diverse diet, what one food lacks another food can make up for.

This is why when it comes to protein it’s most important to meet your daily goal from a variety of foods rather than to focus on foods that are high PDCAAS.

05/25/2026

But at least they’re trying right?

05/23/2026

The other person might be right

05/20/2026

05/20/2026

Reminder that can be presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence

05/19/2026

But who funded the study?

05/19/2026

One of the most intimidating moments in grad school