‘Regenerative’ food labels are everywhere. Which can you trust?

How to understand the newest buzzword at the grocery store

Caroline Saunders

October 6, 2025

This story has been updated. It originally published on Jan. 25, 2024.Stroll through a grocery store and you’ll likely spy the word “regenerative” on everything from cocoa powder to hot dogs. You can ……

Caroline Saunders

Caroline Saunders is a food and environmental writer and Le Cordon Bleu-trained pastry chef based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Grist, Smart Mouth, and Blue Dot Living Magazine, and she is the author of Pale Blue Tart, a newsletter about climate-friendly baking.

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