The sight of a burger and fries pushes our happy button, even if you know a salad is better for you.

To highlight the UC Global Food Initiative, here is a sampling of holiday-themed UC food research from each campus.

Web platform connects organizations that have surplus perishable food with social agencies that feed the hungry.

New Fresh Focus program offers surplus, blemished or odd-shaped produce from the Student Farm to students in need.

Research and education project is designed to highlight the impact of added sugar on health.

'Chop Suey, USA' explores how the popular ethnic cuisine altered our gastronomic landscape.

UC Santa Cruz — 'the Mothership' of organic agriculture — has much to offer UC's ambitious Global Food Initiative.

San Diego residents are transforming a 20,000-square-foot vacant urban lot into a community focal point for healthy place making.

Across the UC system, Food Day participation will include lectures, discussions, film screenings, farmers markets, food demonstrations and special dining menus.

Certain fats found in mother's milk appear to be the strongest predictor of academic test performance.

As a single mom and undergrad student, Koko Mulder founded UC Berkeley's pantry to help non-traditional students like herself stretch their food dollars. Now a campus staffer, she's still at the pantry's helm.

Loaded with sugar, they're essentially "sodas without the carbonation."