Food economist on faculty at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @TuftsNutrition, @TuftsUniversity. Nutrition, ag, food, environment, stats.
Tufts University, Boston
Joined May 2013
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Your surveys might ask real people questions, but do they get real answers? Everyday use of AI means generated content can dilute insights & distort findings. While “bots” are known, our new paper explores AI used by genuine human respondents & provides guidance on safeguards 👇🏽
What's in a name? New research by myself and others looks at purchase probability and willingness to pay for cell-cultivated meat products under different naming conditions (e.g., "lab grown" vs. "cultivated"). @tuftscellag
A new study from the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture explores how terminology influences consumer perceptions of cultivated meat products in the United States and Germany. Learn more: bit.ly/4fHsf4d
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RCT: Both a continuous Food Compass Score and a binary FDA label increased healthy + decreased unhealthy supermarket purchases; the continuous score increased healthy purchases 1.75x vs the binary label and decreased no-purchases. @SeanBCash ja.ma/48sTQkq
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The Tufts Tuition Pact is meant to ensure that students from all socioeconomic backgrounds, including middle-income families, know that a Tufts education is within reach. | @TuftsAdmissions
Learn more: brnw.ch/21wVBAp
ALT "Tufts Will Be Tuition-Free for U.S. Families Earning Less than $150,000" in white letters on a blue background. To its right is an image showing students walking past the Academic Quad with West Hall in the background.
New work from our group on the dietary quality of foods purchased at #DollarStores
Although food purchased at dollar stores tends to be less healthy compared with other food outlets, households are balancing this with more nutritious items purchased elsewhere, Tufts researchers find.
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First-of-its-kind study alert! 🚨
What happens when real people taste cultivated meat at a public tasting event—just 4 days before a state ban takes effect? Do people see personal and cultural value in CM?
We found out. And the results are complex-- and hopeful. 🧵
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Read our fresh off the presses open-access article now:
“It’s supposed to be real meat”: An analysis of media coverage of the first U.S. approval of cell-cultivated chicken in Future Foods— NOW! sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @SeanBCash
Tea and tariffs: Trade war places popular beverage in the crosshairs foodnavigator-usa.com/Articl…
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📱 🚸 Food and beverage marketing has become increasingly common on social media.
A recent study conducted a systematic review of studies published over the past 12 years related to the effects of digital food marketing on children and adolescents: on.cgiar.org/3E90pxe
@CGIAR
Ultra-processed foods researcher leaves NIH, alleges censorship washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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Do food labels really influence kids' snack choices? wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/podcas…
#seancash #gabrielafretes #IFPRI #Tufts #Chilefoodlabelinglaws #Childfoodadvertisinglaws #youthsnackfoodchoices #nutritionwarninglabels #frontofpackagefoodlabels #FOP #sustainablepackaging #ecolabels
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In this 🆕 🗞️ @gabifretes, Paula Veliz, Ana Maria Narvaez, D’Arcy Williams, Romain Sibille, Maaike Arts, and Jef Leroy conducted a narrative review of digital marketing of unhealthy foods and drinks towards youth in LAC: doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2025…
@CGIAR @UNICEF @uniceflac
The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation chronicle.com/article/the-ri…
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🥫 Front-of-pack labels can be useful tools to improve young consumers' food choices.
This recent study assessed youth's purchasing behavior by conducting an online discrete choice experiment in Santiago, #Chile: doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2…
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🆕 📄 Front-of-pack labels and young consumers: An experimental investigation of #nutrition and #sustainability claims in #Chile
✍️ By @gabifretes, Norbert L.W. Wilson, Camila Corvalan, Christina D. Economos, and Sean B. Cash.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2…
Does FDA’s proposed front-of-pack nutrition labeling miss the mark? foodnavigator-usa.com/Articl…
Congrats @LauLaraC on leading this important work on the worldwide disease burden of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.
Millions of cases of diabetes and heart disease occur each year globally due to consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, says new research from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
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A nice summary of the research that @ChefSuziGerber, Sadie Dix and I did comparing marketing of plant-based and animal-sourced foods in online retail, via @faunalytics | The Marketing Landscape Of Online Groceries faunalytics.org/the-marketin…
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More than one quarter of U.S. food dollar was paid to wholesale and retail trade establishments in 2023
Learn more in today's Chart of Note: ers.usda.gov/data-products/c…
ALT A chart over a U.S. Dollar showing Food Dollar Series: 2023 industry group bill
"Figuring out the social impacts of a food is very different than figuring out its environmental impacts ... it requires not only different data but also a different data collection approach." @nt_blackstone on social aspects of sustainable diets, more@ now.tufts.edu/2024/12/04/new…
