With a campus right at the middle of the city, the cafeteria inside Baruch College doesn’t provide a lot of variety as other college cafeterias provide. This was also reflected by the orientation that the college provided to their upcoming students.

The menu included variety of salad, sandwich and drinks. Various green vegetables and fruits filled the salad bar, with few dressing choices.

The sandwich menu included various types of meat, such as ham and chicken in different sizes of bread. With that came drinks, which included soda and water.

Although these food could be criticized for their lack of variety, these were low in calories. Therefore, easily the could be considered healthy and the green vegetables could add into the bodies of those who lack the amount of food they need from green vegetables.

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In Fukushima Japan, Radiation was contaminated in food. They found radiation in baby formula because of the nuclear meltdown. Meiji, the Tokyo Company recalled and tested the 400,000 cans. They announced the level of cesium detected was under the government limit which is 200. It wouldn’t harm on baby’s health. Although they made this statement, baby and young children are thought to be affected by radiation, which can increase risks of cancer and other illnesses

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-Jiaqi Xu

Summary: In this article, it explains how consuming too much sugar is bad for your body and it can cause various diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and other heart disease. In order to consume less sugar, there are some effective foods that can help stop craving sugars. There are foods such as apple, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and cinnamon to help stop craving for sugars. These foods are not only helpful in stopping the craving the sugar but they are also very good for overall body function. For example, apple is very high in fiber which helps stomach feel full and lessen the craving for sugar. For sweet potatoes, it supplies the body with vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin B6, and iron. These top 5 foods can help stop the craving for sugars and enhance the body function at the same time.

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-Jinwoo Choi

Summary: This article tells about how there are many foods that are very healthy to eat and many people are unaware about it. Some of these foods are very common in our daily lives but many people ignore it. Some of the foods consist of guava, frozen blueberries, cabbage, beets, sardines and canned pumpkin. Why some of these foods are so healthy to eat is because they are low in calories and it’s cheap to buy. Not only that, they contain various good source for people. For example, guava is one of the healthiest fruit you can find in the store nowadays and it also has high concentration of vitamins and minerals that help boost the immune system against common types of colds. Another good example is cabbage; you can literally find cabbage in any store and cabbage is very good for preventing and treating cancer. Some of these foods are being ignored by people but these are foods that people should definitely start eating in their lives.

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-Jinwoo Choi

by Stephanie Strom

Starbucks has always been known for its coffee, attempts to attract customers throughout the day and not just the morning for coffee. Over the past two years, Starbucks had spent hundreds of millions of dollars expanding their business on fruit juice, baked goods and tea.  Starbucks had added in business companies: Evolution Fresh juices, La Boulange Café and Bakery, and Teavana to their stores.  Starbucks has already begin to add in bakery cases and tearooms into their new stores.  In the history of Starbucks, there wasn’t much success in bringing in other brands to their stores expect for Tazo Tea.

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-Ying Liu

By Ron Nixon

The new food safety law gave FDA more power but no additional funds. Congress did not provide enough funds to do so. Over the past five years, there have been more than 30 food poisoning outbreaks.  Because of the decline in the budget, only the exporting countries that had past food safety problems would be inspected. Some officials wanted to eliminate border inspections because; there were times when imported meat shipments were placed next to toxic chemicals. FDA is unable to inspect all the food that would come into the country, giving the responsibility to foreign companies to hired private inspectors and conduct food safety checks. In a year, FDA is only able to inspect 2-3% of the 10 million plus shipments of imported goods because of a tight budget.

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-Ying Liu