Several hours after a meal, people's hunger levels were predicted not by how much they'd eaten but rather by how much food they'd seen in front of them in other words, how much they remembered eating

Their babies retain the ability to produce their own chlorophyll, though they can't generate energy from sunlight until they've eaten enough algae to steal the necessary genes, which they can't yet produce on their own.

They also reported that 87% of people asked either would eat or had eaten food fallen on the floor.

This comfortable cycle, in which the rhythms of the day helped shape the rhythms of the meals, gave rise to the custom of the large midday meal, eaten with the extended family.

A new report found 46 percent of meals are eaten alone in America.

Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which gradually turned into chopsticks.

In many cultures, round foods such as grapes, bread, and moon cakes are eaten at welcome celebrations to represent family unity.

In much of asia, especially the so-called "rice bowl" cultures of China, japan, korea, and vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.

Let's not pick these peaches until this weekend so that they get sweet enough to be eaten.

Out comes a "soft-serve" creamy dessert, to be eaten right away.

Researchers have found that there is a direct link between the increase in food eaten outside the home and the rise in weight problems.

He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like "children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.