Sean Cash

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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New work from our group on the dietary quality of foods purchased at #DollarStores

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. 🧵

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/articl… @SeanBCash

Tea and tariffs: Trade war places popular beverage in the crosshairs foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025/0…

📱 🚸 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/2025/04…

Do food labels really influence kids' snack choices? wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/podcasts/do-fo… #seancash #gabrielafretes #IFPRI #Tufts #Chilefoodlabelinglaws #Childfoodadvertisinglaws #youthsnackfoodchoices #nutritionwarninglabels #frontofpackagefoodlabels #FOP #sustainablepackaging #ecolabels

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.cdnu… @CGIAR @UNICEF @uniceflac

The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation chronicle.com/article/the-ri…

🥫 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.food…

🆕 📄 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.food…

@WylinDWilson @NYUpress @CoriolisCo @millennwomanism @blkwomenstudies @citeblackwomen @bwm_famu @JustWomanist Congrats Wylin!

My book is now available! I'm full of gratitude...@NYUpress @CoriolisCo @millennwomanism @blkwomenstudies @citeblackwomen @bwm_famu @JustWomanist

Does FDA’s proposed front-of-pack nutrition labeling miss the mark? foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025/0…

@michaelgaosj @uarkaeab @UArkansas Congrats Shijun!

I’m excited to announce that I have joined @uarkaeab as an Assistant Professor! Special thanks to @SeanBCash and Carola Grebitus for their guidance. I look forward to collaborating with colleagues at @UArkansas. #uark #bumperscollege

Congrats @LauLaraC on leading this important work on the worldwide disease burden of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.

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-marketing-…

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/…

"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…