Nutrition and Healthy Cooking Resources

Worcester Public Library offers monthly nutrition and cooking classes to educate patrons on how to plan, manage, select, and prepare healthy food. 

Visit our YouTube Nutrition & Cooking Playlist to view past recordings of our virtual nutrition and cooking classes!

As a supplement to our classes, here is a list of resources from trusted websites:

MedlinePlus - online health information resource for patients and their families and friends

• Healthy Recipes

• Nutrition

• Nutrition for Older Adults

• Food Labeling

• Food and Nutrition Topics

• MedlinePlus Videos

• Tutorial: Medline Plus, Evaluating Internet Health Information

Harvard Healthy Eating Plate - created by experts at Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, points consumers to the healthiest choices in the major food groups. The Healthy Eating Plate is based exclusively on the best available science and is not subjected to political or commercial pressures from food industry lobbyists.

USDA ChooseMyPlate - MyPlate offers ideas and tips to help create a healthier eating style that meets individual needs and improves health. Its mobile app creates a personalized plan to meet food group targets, ood preferences, health goals, and budget. User can create a customized cookbook based on recipes found on the site.

USDA Food & Nutrition Center - Provides access to a wide range of current and reliable food and nutrition resources from both government and non-government sources with over 2,500 links.

CDC - offers strategies, guidelines, and statistics on topics related to nutrition.

• CDC Food Safety - Food-related diseases affect tens of millions of people and kill thousands. Tracking single cases of food-borne illness and investigating outbreaks are critical public health functions in which CDC is deeply involved. MedlinePlus Health.

• CDC Nutrition - Provides resources and tools that improve dietary quality to support healthy child development and reduce chronic disease; Increase health-related physical activity for people of all ages; decrease prevalence of obesity through prevention of weight gain and maintenance of healthy weight.

Network of the National Library of Medicine - Provides access to biomedical and health information resources and data to improve health literacy and increase health equity through information.

Fooducate Health Tracker - Handy tool to evaluate nutrition of food products. UPC Scanner in the app that helps evaluate nutrition of food products while grocery shopping or at home.

Best Food Facts - Supported by the Center for Food Integrity which provides objective, evidence-based information about food. Content on the website is developed by university-based scientists and the Registered Dietitian community to provide the science behind what's in food.

Food Insight - Developed by the International Food Information Council IFIC Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to effectively communicating science-based information on health, nutrition and food safety for the public good.

Cooking Matters Educational Tools - Provides curriculum, toolkits & handouts to teach food preparation and nutrition to children, adults and community.

EatRight: Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics - Provides free access to registered nutritionists to answer question about how a healthy diet improves health and fights disease and to help people create a plan for a healthy diet. Also provides many online tools to promotes healthy eating.

SNAP Money Saving Healthy Eating & Cooking Tips- Provides information on how to plan meals, eat healthy, while saving money on food.

This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Cooperative Agreement UG4LM012347-01 with the University of Massachusetts, Worcester.