Suzi Gerber, PhD

Honored to teach students how to make healthy meals with cultivated salmon (Wildtype) and introduce future chefs and nutritionists to the future of food

So many things called delicacies now require acquired tastes. Taste parity isn’t a value proposition and is an illusion.

Function, benefit, perceived quality- these impart value and incentive to acquire that taste.

Taste is social. Taste is not purely physiochemical.

Acidified pea protein would be closer in mech & nutrition, the right acids make it taste cheesy, but that’s $$$. We have seen tasters prefer alt dairy despite a different taste and pay more. The dairy alt market is larger & more price flexible….

This & lack of scale manu/distro is why it’s in homes & cafes not high volume products. Alt Cheese, even when it tastes good, doesn’t function as a viscoelastic protein gel. We gell w/o thermoreversibility & w/ functional starches not proteins….

I reject the concept of taste parity for alt proteins as an illusion. Aim to satisfy not mimic. No 2 steaks taste exact. Meat ranges & sensory exp cant control for range. When liking is =, unblinded choice favors familiar vs new. The star alt-milk in coffee- isnt bc taste parity it’s function…

My epitaph, by way of description, in the book Feed the Peopl by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and Gabe Rosenberg

What the Foodies Get Wrong About Food Reform Telling people to eat more home-cooked meals and start gardening isn’t a realistic prescription for widespread change.

"Improving the American food system further will require engaging, improving, and fairly distributing modern agriculture’s productivity, not tossing it on the compost heap."

@gnrosenberg.bsky.social and I on the concept of democratic hedonism in food system reform.

newrepublic.com/article/2067...

Unboxing video of @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and Gabe Rosenberg’s new book!

I know what I’m doing this weekend 📖

a scoping review is to identify gaps, ie what can/can’t be concluded by evidence. Repeating statements about availability from other studies /=/ summarizing real analyses of composition. If it can’t address that fundamental point-that we have not characterized-then it cannot conclude this.

Yeah it always amazes me that the threat of invasive insects doesn’t raise more alarms for people. It’s a major risk. Not to mention potential shifts in allergen and heavy metal accumulation.

My great great grandparents probably never ate a banana and I’m not up for going back to Shtetl living, thanks.

Opinion | We Shouldn’t Want to Eat Like Our Great-Great-Grandparents

"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...

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.

"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...

Also- something i haven’t seen mentioned is that since American food policy 1st aimed to increase grain research & intake, American grain has moved to feed rather than food. Animal food producers thus gain market competition for low cost feed when used for human foods. 🔻 is a twofer.

Great piece! I’d argue that the 3rd core, explicit aim of DGAs beyond 1) science and 2) procurement has always been, in every country, a means of promoting domestic ag products to meet the goal #1 & preserve nutrition security. This one get #3 while losing the plot on #1.

Vegan chocolate bourbon pecan pie recipe with instructions. For text version reply.

Image of 2 freshly baked pecan pies on a baking sheet.

Blow them all away with this knock out vegan pecan pie recipe.

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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

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Do they use gelatin?

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.

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.

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...

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...

If you ever want to talk more, I can tell you a story about EDF and fishing interests…

Yeah, funny to re-read that & realize all the things I left out to walk a professional line 😂

He told female delegates from the global south they didn’t represent their country when disagreeing w/ him. MethaneSAThad just received 100M from Bezos & intended to exclude ag, pretending not to be EDF

Reporting * sorry!

I started repeating the concentrated effort to discount cattle Methane when myself and a delegate from Brazil confronted The Methane Moment pavilion organizers from EDF/MethaneSAT at COP26. You can read more about it here: vegnews.com/opinion-cop2...

Big news in research- the Pubmed image has changed!

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...

🧵 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👇