Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences

The Sacramento Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences (NFCS) Program links research-based education with life experiences to help individuals with limited resources improve their lives, their families, and their communities. Our NFCS Programs develop and implement community-based educational outreach that addresses critical needs of the county's diverse multicultural communities.

UC Food Blog

Unripe cantaloupe? Could be, the electronic nose knows
Posted 5/14/2012 - You know how it works: You stand in the grocery aisle, surreptitiously sniffing the...

Healthalicous cooking
Posted 5/8/2012 - UC Agriculture and Natural Resources researchers and educators continue to fight increases in...

Addressing nutrition and poverty through horticulture
Posted 5/3/2012 - Nutrition, food security and sufficient family incomes are challenges in many parts of the world....

Cultivating California
Posted 5/1/2012 - Only in California could arid land be converted into the nation’s salad bowl. In the late 1800s,...

Were those the days?
Posted 4/30/2012 - To the tune of Mary Hopkin's iconic 60s hit, Those Were the Days, a team of UC animal scientists...