Eco-Eats
This agricultural process uses nearly 70% of the world’s freshwater.
What is Irrigation?
This common household appliance is the #1 place where food waste occurs in developed nations.
What is the Refrigerator?
This "circular" process involves taking food by-products—like turning leftover fruit peels into fiber snacks—and is known as "____-cycling
What is Upcycling?
In the 17th century, the demand for this "white gold" led to massive deforestation in the Caribbean to make room for plantations, fundamentally changing the island's ecosystems.
What is Sugar?
Many middle and high schoolers now lead "Meatless ____," a campaign to reduce the carbon footprint of school cafeterias one day a week.
What is Meatless Monday?
To produce 1kg of this meat, it takes roughly 15,000 liters of water (more than any other protein).
What is Beef?
This is the difference between "Use By" and "Best Before" dates.
What is Safety vs. Quality?
This genetic technology, often abbreviated as a 5-letter acronym, allows scientists to "edit" a crop’s DNA
What is CRISPR?
Most people think these have always been orange, but until the 17th century, the most common color for this vegetable was actually purple.
What are Carrots?
Gen Z is the first generation to widely adopt this "flexi-" diet, which focuses on eating mostly plant-based foods without strictly giving up meat.
What is flexitarianism?
This specific greenhouse gas, 25x more potent than CO2, is heavily produced by livestock flatulence ("cow farts")
What is Methane?
Roughly this fraction of all food produced globally is lost or wasted every year.
1/3
These "mini-beasts" are considered a sustainable protein source eaten by 2 billion people daily.
What are Insects/Entomophagy?
This ancient civilization used cocoa beans as a form of actual currency.
Who were the Aztecs/Mayans?
This term describes the "educational gap" that youth activists are trying to close by teaching peers how to read and understand complex food labels.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
This term describes the distance food travels from the farm to your plate.
What are Food Miles?
This specific 2015 international agreement set a target to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels by 2030.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals / SDG 12.3?
This "super-crop" from the Andes is a complete protein and can grow in salty, poor-quality soil.
What is Quinoa?
The "Columbian Exchange" brought this staple crop from the Americas to Ireland, where it later caused a massive famine.
What is the Potato?
This term describes the "educational gap" that youth activists are trying to close by teaching peers how to read and understand complex food labels.
What is Food Literacy?
This oily crop is the leading cause of deforestation in Southeast Asia, threatening orangutan habitats
What is Palm Oil?
This is the practice of "rescuing" food from supermarket bins or farm fields that is perfectly edible but unsold
What is Gleaning or Freeganism?
This farming method involves growing plants in a water-based, nutrient-rich solution without any soil.
What is Hydroponics?
This iconic American animal once numbered 60 million and maintained the Great Plains ecosystem, but was hunted nearly to extinction in the 1800s to make way for cattle ranching and to control food sources.
What is the Bison (or American Buffalo)?
This Canadian organization’s 2026 National Youth Council is famous for its "Food Rescue" mission, training young leaders to prevent edible food from hitting landfills.
What is Second Harvest?