Food

Food nourishes us, inspires us, and brings us together. The Harvard community is exploring nutrition, sustainability, and the science behind the things we eat.

Last updated: November 2024

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine shares advice for keeping your teeth healthy between holiday meals.

Experts in the edible

Christina Warinner

Christina co-authored a study showing that ancient humans adapted to eating starch-rich foods as far back as 100,000 years ago. These foods likely helped pave the way for the expansion of the human brain.

Ayr Muir

As the founder of the vegetarian restaurant Clover, Ayr is selling meat-free meals and reducing our impact on climate change one sandwich at a time.

Leah Penniman

Leah, a James Beard Leadership Award winner, co-founded Soul Fire Farm to train people in regenerative farming practices that are now the go-to methods of sustainable and organic agriculture.

Teaching science concepts through cooking

Kate Strangfeld

The Graduate School of Education alum started Bite Sized Education to engage secondary students in science. Her goal is to empower students to 鈥渢hink like a scientist鈥� through food and cooking.

Ingestible insights

Harvard researchers are exploring the effects that certain foods and types of eating have on our health.

Two cartoon heads, one with a soda inside it and one with a broccoli

Why we crave junk food

Harvard Medical School’s Uma Naidoo, the author of the books 鈥淭his Is Your Brain on Food鈥� and 鈥淐alm Your Mind with Food,鈥� explains why we crave junk food and how to cultivate healthier eating habits.

Chocolate

and its effect on postmenopausal weight loss

Ultra-processed food

and its influence on obesity and disease

Vegan diet

and Alzheimer’s improvements

Avocados

and their effect on heart disease risk

Late-night eating

and its role in depression and mood

Further into food

The Nutrition Source

A leading authority providing science-based guidance on food and nutrition. Explore articles, recipes, and tools.

Free cooking courses

Learn about fermentation or explore the chemistry and physics of cooking in these free online courses.

The sacredness of food

The Harvard Divinity School explores the many ways that food overlaps with religions around the world.

Sustenance solutions

The Harvard community is exploring solutions for the biggest problems facing farmers, consumers, and the planet.

The need for food

Researchers 黑料专区 Chan School found an following the decrease in SNAP benefits; Graduate School of Design , ranked as America鈥檚 hungriest state; Harvard alum , starting with her hometown of Atlanta; and Historian Joyce Chaplin explored .

The risks for food

Research shows that changes to seasonal rainfall patterns are across the globe; Harvard alum Marcos Barrozo worked to ; the Wyss Institute is exploring medical technology to ; and the Schools of Engineering and Public Health are teaming up to in a novel way.

The future of food

Graduate School alum John Ahrens cultivated to address the global demand for seafood; Wyss Institute’s Luke MacQueen spent years creating ; the founders of Circe created the in response to the worldwide shortage of cocoa; and David Weitz鈥檚 lab is exploring .

Food 黑料专区

Food Donation Program

In 2014, Harvard University Dining Services launched an effort to address chronic hunger among its neighbors in Cambridge and Boston by partnering with the local nonprofit Food for Free to donate nearly 2,000 nutritious meals each week to families in need.

Healthful and Sustainable Food

Harvard's Office for Sustainability pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food by 25% by 2030 as part of the Coolfood Pledge.

Finding home through food

A Harvard College first-year student explains what the food is like 黑料专区, and how to cure food-homesickness.

Harvard Food Systems Initiative

Led by Harvard University Dining Services in collaboration with Harvard Faculty and practitioners in the field, Harvard Food Systems Initiative is an educational program to inspire elevated thinking and change to shape future food systems leaders for a more sustainable future.

The Harvard Square food scene

A Harvard College student and food connoisseur shares the best places to grab a bite in the square.

Food Literacy Project

The Food Literacy Project hosts a fellowship program for students to help cultivate an understanding of food from the ground up. Education focuses on sustainability, nutrition, food preparation and community.

Dining Services Learnings Report

Learn how Harvard's Dining Services team has created places and experiences that are formative to how Harvard lives on in the memories of our students.

Explore the food and nutrition organizations, exhibits, and collections 黑料专区.