The Prado Journal

Advancing food as healthcare through science, innovation, and clinical practice.

Clinical Evidence

The data behind food-as-medicine

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Maximize Your Health Savings: FSA & HSA Made Simple

Unlock hidden revenue and help customers eat healthier by making your meals FSA and HSA-eligible.

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The Future of Food as Medicine: Why Physicians Should Integrate Nutrition Into Patient Care

How physicians can lead the shift to Food as Medicine and nutrition-based healthcare.

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Food as Medicine: How Physicians Can Lead the Future of Nutrition-Based Healthcare

How physicians can lead the shift to Food as Medicine and nutrition-based healthcare.

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Ready to Bring Nutrition-Based Remission to Your Practice?

Integrate medically tailored meal programs—ranging from low-carb to meal-replacement options—directly into your care model. Enable patients to pay with HSA/FSA funds and reduce their out-of-pocket costs while improving outcomes.

Recent Blogs

Prescribe Food as Medicine: Boost Patient Health & Revenue

Learn how healthcare providers can prescribe food as medicine to improve patient outcomes and generate revenue compliantly.

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Use It or Lose It: Turn FSA Season Into Sales

Don’t lose your health dollars—discover how FSAs and HSAs can fund nutritious, tax-free meals.

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Maximize Your Health Savings: FSA & HSA Made Simple

Unlock hidden revenue and help customers eat healthier by making your meals FSA and HSA-eligible.

Read article
The Future of Food as Medicine: Why Physicians Should Integrate Nutrition Into Patient Care

How physicians can lead the shift to Food as Medicine and nutrition-based healthcare.

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Food as Medicine: How Physicians Can Lead the Future of Nutrition-Based Healthcare

How physicians can lead the shift to Food as Medicine and nutrition-based healthcare.

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Starting Young: Produce Prescriptions Show Promise for Kids

A 2024 Nature scoping review synthesizes U.S. pediatric produce prescription programs: early gains in diet quality and food security, with gaps in scale, reimbursement, and clinical outcomes.

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Inside the Kitchen: What Really Drives MTM Success in Heart Failure Care

A 2025 JAHA implementation study reveals what enables and blocks medically tailored meals in acute heart failure: workflow integration, RD champions, payer clarity—and the logistics hurdles to fix.

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Heart Failure Care at Home: What Medically Tailored Meals Really Deliver

Systematic review shows MTMs may reduce HF readmissions and improve nutrition—what clinicians should do now.

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Produce Prescriptions That Pay for Themselves?

Food-as-Medicine improves diet and food security; clinical results vary—here’s what to prescribe now.

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Early Trial Shows Promise for Medically Tailored Meals in Type 2 Diabetes

A 2024 pilot shows medically tailored meals + counseling improve food security and engagement in T2D patients.

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Ready to Ready to start your food as medicine business? your Food Business?

Add a potent weapon to your healthcare practice that improves the standard of care for your patients and provides you peace of mind.