Need help coping with your child’s food allergies? Want to learn how to eat better to help improve a medical condition? Looking for a recipe for a healthy dessert to serve at an upcoming party? Take advantage of living in the digital age! Many companies and organizations have great websites with tons of useful facts, tips, recipes, and creative ideas.
Here are specific health sites that I hope can be useful.Associations & Organizations
- American Diabetes Association: diabetes.org
- American Dietetic Association: eatright.org
- American Heart Association: amhrt.org
- Food Allergy Network: foodallergy.org
- International Food Information Council: ific.org
- National Dairy Council: nationaldairycouncil.org
- Wheat Foods Council: wheatfoods.org
- American Academy of Pediatrics: aap.org
- Children's Nutrition Research Center: bcm.edu
- Healthy School Meals: familyfoodzone.com
- La Leche League International (info on breast feeding): lalecheleague.org
- No Bones About It!: drink-milk.com
- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition: cfsan.fda.gov
- Home Food Safety: homefoodsafety.org
- American Dietetic Association: eatright.org
- Food and Nutrition Information Center: riley.nal.usda.gov
- Office of Dietary Supplements: dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov
Food Companies:
Many food companies have excellent websites, which offer everything from basic nutritional information to serving suggestions, wellness tips and even games and fun stuff for kids. Spending a few minutes online reviewing food labels before you visit the store can allow you to make better product choices and shop faster. These sites are also great sources for all kinds of recipes. Check out the list below:
- Amy’s Kitchen: amys.com
- Bell & Evans Chicken: bellandevans.com
- Bestfoods: bestfoods.com
- Birdseye: birdseyefoods.com
- Campbell Soup Company: campbellsoup.com
- Chiquita Brands International Inc.: chiquita.com
- ConAgra: conagra.com
- Del Monte Foods: delmonte.com
- Dole Food Co. Inc.: dole.com
- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc. dreyers.com and edys.com
- Enjoy Life Foods: enjoylifefoods.com
- General Mills: generalmills.com
- H.J. Heinz Company: heinz.com
- Kellogg Company: kelloggs.com
- Kraft: kraft.com
- McCormick & Co. Inc.: mccormick.com
- Motts Inc.: motts.com
- Nabisco: nabisco.com
- Nestle: nestle.com
- Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.: oceanspray.com
- Perdue Farms Inc.: perdue.com
- Pinnacle Foods: pinnaclefoodscorp.com
- Procter & Gamble Company: pg.com
- Quaker Oats Co.: quakeroats.com
- Riceland Foods Inc.: riceland.com
- Sara Lee Corp.: saralee.com
- Shady Brook Farms: shadybrookfarms.com
- Smuckers: smuckers.com
- Suiza Foods Corp.: suizafoods.com
- Sunkist Growers Inc.: sunkist.com
- Tyson: tyson.com
- Unilver: unilever.com
- Utz: utzsnacks.com
- Warner-Lambert Co. (Pfizer): warner-lambert.com
- Welch Food Inc.: welchs.com
- Whole Foods: wholefoods.com