Suzi Gerber, PhD
@chefsuzigerber.bsky.social
Food, nutrition & behavior scientist 👩🏽🔬— Chef — Author of 📚 Plant-Based Gourmet 👩🏽🍳— Protein diversification — Team Fiber 🌱🫘— economics fangirl
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🚨 New paper in Appetite busts myths about plant-based diets w/ a novel adherence score comparing vegan, veg, WFPB, & Paleo among long & short term followers.
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1. PBDs are not equal. Big diffs in LEVEL of adherence, & association w/ duration, diet quality, & BMI.
More below 👇🏽
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1. PBDs are not equal. Big diffs in LEVEL of adherence, & association w/ duration, diet quality, & BMI.
More below 👇🏽
Reposted by Suzi Gerber, PhD
"The policy tools exist to minimize the harms and maximize the benefits of a system that provides food, much of it healthy, in abundance. But first we need to stop demonizing industrial food, and instead think about how to make it better."
Gabe & I for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
Gabe & I for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
Opinion | We Shouldn’t Want to Eat Like Our Great-Great-Grandparents
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:16 PM
"The policy tools exist to minimize the harms and maximize the benefits of a system that provides food, much of it healthy, in abundance. But first we need to stop demonizing industrial food, and instead think about how to make it better."
Gabe & I for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
Gabe & I for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
Reposted by Suzi Gerber, PhD
"To the extent the guidelines ... represent an agenda, it is not simply to facilitate a particular outcome favored by meat corporations but also to invert good governance liberalism."
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I on the new food pyramid for @newrepublic.com.
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I on the new food pyramid for @newrepublic.com.
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
How the New Food Pyramid Fits Into the Broader Conservative Project
Trump and MAHA have found a way to shrink government that Reagan never thought of: discredit it entirely.
newrepublic.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
"To the extent the guidelines ... represent an agenda, it is not simply to facilitate a particular outcome favored by meat corporations but also to invert good governance liberalism."
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I on the new food pyramid for @newrepublic.com.
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I on the new food pyramid for @newrepublic.com.
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
Blow them all away with this knock out vegan pecan pie recipe.
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Blow them all away with this knock out vegan pecan pie recipe.
The US Department of Education will reclassify and no longer consider the following professional degrees:
Education (incl teaching)
Nursing
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech pathology
Engineering
Counseling & therapy
Education (incl teaching)
Nursing
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech pathology
Engineering
Counseling & therapy
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The US Department of Education will reclassify and no longer consider the following professional degrees:
Education (incl teaching)
Nursing
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech pathology
Engineering
Counseling & therapy
Education (incl teaching)
Nursing
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech pathology
Engineering
Counseling & therapy
Today the RFI for US UPF policy is due. I want to say, by way of example, that if you can’t explain how some brown sugar forms into solid bricks & others remain granular for years—w/ identical ingredient lists—you might not be qualified to shape policy about food processing.
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today the RFI for US UPF policy is due. I want to say, by way of example, that if you can’t explain how some brown sugar forms into solid bricks & others remain granular for years—w/ identical ingredient lists—you might not be qualified to shape policy about food processing.
Reposted by Suzi Gerber, PhD
You may have read that your protein supplements are giving you lead poisoning. That's not the case. If you want to have protein shakes, that's fine. But whether you need to and whether they're safely regulated is a different story. My latest for @vox.com.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
No, your protein powder isn’t poisoning you
New testing finds two-thirds of popular protein powders exceed lead limits — especially plant-based brands. What you need to know before your next scoop — and why the reality is different.
www.vox.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
You may have read that your protein supplements are giving you lead poisoning. That's not the case. If you want to have protein shakes, that's fine. But whether you need to and whether they're safely regulated is a different story. My latest for @vox.com.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Reposted by Suzi Gerber, PhD
The new EAT-Lancet report is out and I wrote about it -- and also what I saw at Climate Week NYC: An environmental movement still cozying up to Big Meat, and still unafraid to confront scientific consensus on food, agriculture, and livestock.
October 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The new EAT-Lancet report is out and I wrote about it -- and also what I saw at Climate Week NYC: An environmental movement still cozying up to Big Meat, and still unafraid to confront scientific consensus on food, agriculture, and livestock.
Comment for the World Health Organization on whether and how much animal sourced foods are needed and/or optimal for the diet: www.who.int/news-room/ar...
Call for comment on the scope of the WHO guideline on optimal intake of animal-source foods
To provide much-needed, evidence-informed guidance on this important topic, WHO has brought together experts from all over the globe (WHO guideline development group or ‘GDG’), with a wide range of re...
www.who.int
September 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Comment for the World Health Organization on whether and how much animal sourced foods are needed and/or optimal for the diet: www.who.int/news-room/ar...
Big news in research- the Pubmed image has changed!
August 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Big news in research- the Pubmed image has changed!
Reposted by Suzi Gerber, PhD
🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts?
… probably not, right?
In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z
Summary👇
… probably not, right?
In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z
Summary👇
Generalizability of choice architecture interventions
Nature Reviews Psychology - Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this...
rdcu.be
July 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts?
… probably not, right?
In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z
Summary👇
… probably not, right?
In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z
Summary👇
Excited to see major progress in the cultivated meat industry this year- the US has kept its promise to prioritize biotechnology & advance safe, scientifically rigorous new foods.
2 milestones for US today- Mission Barns cultivated pork fat approved, & Believer cultivated chicken FDA NQL
2 milestones for US today- Mission Barns cultivated pork fat approved, & Believer cultivated chicken FDA NQL
July 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Excited to see major progress in the cultivated meat industry this year- the US has kept its promise to prioritize biotechnology & advance safe, scientifically rigorous new foods.
2 milestones for US today- Mission Barns cultivated pork fat approved, & Believer cultivated chicken FDA NQL
2 milestones for US today- Mission Barns cultivated pork fat approved, & Believer cultivated chicken FDA NQL
The world’s first cultivated pork has now been cleared for sale by the USDA! @missionbarns.bsky.social pork and fat is the 4th product and 3rd species approved in the US. A banner year for the cultivated meat industry! Read more: ampsinnovation.org/amps-congrat...
AMPS Congratulates Mission Barns as the World’s First Approved Food Made from Cultivated Pork and Fat – Now Cleared by the USDA - Association For Meat, Poultry And Seafood Innovation
The Association for Meat, Poultry, and Seafood Innovation (AMPS) congratulates Mission Barns on this major global milestone. After the very thorough scientific FDA pre-market consultation Mission Barn...
ampsinnovation.org
July 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The world’s first cultivated pork has now been cleared for sale by the USDA! @missionbarns.bsky.social pork and fat is the 4th product and 3rd species approved in the US. A banner year for the cultivated meat industry! Read more: ampsinnovation.org/amps-congrat...
“The tool carries significant implications for research and policy…to support the design of new interventions, and to refine predictive models linking diet to chronic disease risk…”
solutions.tufts.edu/pioneering-m...
solutions.tufts.edu/pioneering-m...
July 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“The tool carries significant implications for research and policy…to support the design of new interventions, and to refine predictive models linking diet to chronic disease risk…”
solutions.tufts.edu/pioneering-m...
solutions.tufts.edu/pioneering-m...
Tomorrow! Massachusetts H539 seeks to redefine crucial foods like infant formula & Glucerna, foods that save lives, as “particularly harmful” UPF. Not just UPF but particularly harmful UPF.
Tell Massachusetts that we need evidence-based standards for nutrition! malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...
Tell Massachusetts that we need evidence-based standards for nutrition! malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...
Hearing Details - Joint Committee on Education
malegislature.gov
July 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Tomorrow! Massachusetts H539 seeks to redefine crucial foods like infant formula & Glucerna, foods that save lives, as “particularly harmful” UPF. Not just UPF but particularly harmful UPF.
Tell Massachusetts that we need evidence-based standards for nutrition! malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...
Tell Massachusetts that we need evidence-based standards for nutrition! malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...
Always odd when someone writes about your work but doesn't mention you or talk to you directly..... just discovered this @plantbasednews.bsky.social article from 8 months ago about upcycling peanut hulls. (Link below)
July 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Always odd when someone writes about your work but doesn't mention you or talk to you directly..... just discovered this @plantbasednews.bsky.social article from 8 months ago about upcycling peanut hulls. (Link below)
@lastweektonight.com this feels like a you thing really. Anytime you share an article indexed on Pubmed you see these two people. Do your thing John!
I’d like to see a “where are they now” or
Reunion photo for these two
Reunion photo for these two
July 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@lastweektonight.com this feels like a you thing really. Anytime you share an article indexed on Pubmed you see these two people. Do your thing John!
I’d like to see a “where are they now” or
Reunion photo for these two
Reunion photo for these two
July 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I’d like to see a “where are they now” or
Reunion photo for these two
Reunion photo for these two
My favorite carnivore diet argument is the Maasai as an ex. of untouched, non-Western ancestral diet— they’re only 500yo & adapted this diet 300ys ago after migrating away from the Fertile Crescent. Meanwhile Vedic texts (basis of Hindu Ayurveda) go back 4000ys w/ detailed contradictory diet recs.
June 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My favorite carnivore diet argument is the Maasai as an ex. of untouched, non-Western ancestral diet— they’re only 500yo & adapted this diet 300ys ago after migrating away from the Fertile Crescent. Meanwhile Vedic texts (basis of Hindu Ayurveda) go back 4000ys w/ detailed contradictory diet recs.
It’s never been about healthy diets 🌈
Senate Agriculture text is out (this has the SNAP cuts). Will go through it in this thread.
June 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It’s never been about healthy diets 🌈
1st-of-its-kind study alert! 🚨
What happens when ppl taste cultivated meat at a public tasting—4 days before a state ban? Do ppl see personal & cultural value in CM?
We found out.
The 1st non-experimental study of voluntary tasting approved CM! Beyond flavor, results are complex--& hopeful. 🧵
What happens when ppl taste cultivated meat at a public tasting—4 days before a state ban? Do ppl see personal & cultural value in CM?
We found out.
The 1st non-experimental study of voluntary tasting approved CM! Beyond flavor, results are complex--& hopeful. 🧵
June 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
1st-of-its-kind study alert! 🚨
What happens when ppl taste cultivated meat at a public tasting—4 days before a state ban? Do ppl see personal & cultural value in CM?
We found out.
The 1st non-experimental study of voluntary tasting approved CM! Beyond flavor, results are complex--& hopeful. 🧵
What happens when ppl taste cultivated meat at a public tasting—4 days before a state ban? Do ppl see personal & cultural value in CM?
We found out.
The 1st non-experimental study of voluntary tasting approved CM! Beyond flavor, results are complex--& hopeful. 🧵
How can we better enable MD recommendations of nutrition? Better metrics and tools to support diet. See insights from our recent research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Scoring adherence to voluntary restriction diets (SAVoReD) in the ADAPT study
Voluntary adoption of popular food-group-restricting diets like Paleo and plant-based diets (PBDs) are often health-motivated. However, unlike the the…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
How can we better enable MD recommendations of nutrition? Better metrics and tools to support diet. See insights from our recent research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It’s time to put the narrative of a fraught US regulatory environment for cultivated meat/seafood to bed!
4 products, 3 species, 3 commercially approved, 2 cleared this year. AgSec supports innovation. White House supports tech solutions.
States will get sorted. The US is leading.
Let’s go!
4 products, 3 species, 3 commercially approved, 2 cleared this year. AgSec supports innovation. White House supports tech solutions.
States will get sorted. The US is leading.
Let’s go!
June 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It’s time to put the narrative of a fraught US regulatory environment for cultivated meat/seafood to bed!
4 products, 3 species, 3 commercially approved, 2 cleared this year. AgSec supports innovation. White House supports tech solutions.
States will get sorted. The US is leading.
Let’s go!
4 products, 3 species, 3 commercially approved, 2 cleared this year. AgSec supports innovation. White House supports tech solutions.
States will get sorted. The US is leading.
Let’s go!
The world’s first cell-cultivated fish is now available in US restaurants. Congratulations Wildtype on trailblazing. Read more: ampsinnovation.org/statement-fr...
Statement from AMPS on Wildtype Becoming the First Cultivated Fish Available for Sale in the World– Approved and available NOW in US restaurants - Association For Meat, Poultry And Seafood Innovation
AMPS congratulates leading member Wildtype, a pioneer in producing American cultivated seafood, on the world’s first approval for cultivated seafood for their cultivated salmon. This will mean 100% Am...
ampsinnovation.org
June 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The world’s first cell-cultivated fish is now available in US restaurants. Congratulations Wildtype on trailblazing. Read more: ampsinnovation.org/statement-fr...
In this piece, I lay out the reasons why cultivated meat is not an ultra-processed food, and why we shouldn’t be so quick to resist new food innovations or indeed lump all UPF together. Read it now at NewFoodTech (see comments) 👇🏽
May 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
In this piece, I lay out the reasons why cultivated meat is not an ultra-processed food, and why we shouldn’t be so quick to resist new food innovations or indeed lump all UPF together. Read it now at NewFoodTech (see comments) 👇🏽
Reposted by Suzi Gerber, PhD
NY’s “food service giant Sodexo, which has now served the city’s patients more than 2 million plant-based meals, reports a 98% satisfaction rate. The average vegetarian meal costs 59 cents less than meat, so the program has also saved the city more than $1 million”
sentientmedia.org/nyc-hospital...
sentientmedia.org/nyc-hospital...
NYC hospitals are nudging patients toward plant-based meals. It’s working.
New York City is cutting emissions and saving money by making vegetarian meals the default in public hospitals. It’s successful because most people go with the flow.
sentientmedia.org
May 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
NY’s “food service giant Sodexo, which has now served the city’s patients more than 2 million plant-based meals, reports a 98% satisfaction rate. The average vegetarian meal costs 59 cents less than meat, so the program has also saved the city more than $1 million”
sentientmedia.org/nyc-hospital...
sentientmedia.org/nyc-hospital...