Welcome to the June edition of the IFIS newsletter! Each month, you'll find our highlights of new features, tips, resources, and much more.

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June has already seen us attend two wonderful events.

IFIS was proud to sponsor the USAIN 2026 conference held at Virginia Tech University, USA. Head of Marketing and Engagement, Rhianna Gamble attended on behalf of IFIS, meeting academic librarians to discuss how our specialist food and health information resources can support evidence-based teaching, collection development and student research skills.

Closer to home, Katy Askey, Managing Director, represented IFIS at Food Matters Live in London, a major gathering for innovators and practitioners working at the intersection of food, health and nutrition. She moderated the debate “Ultra-Processed Foods: Harmful or Misunderstood?”, bringing together different expert perspectives on the evolving evidence base and what it means for research, policy and public communication.

Is there an event that you think we should be attending next? Reply to this email and let us know!

Your literature search shouldn't be contained to just peer-reviewed journal articles. Grey literature includes reports, theses, policy documents and other research outputs shared via institutional or organisational websites instead of commercial academic publishers.

To quickly check if something is grey literature, ask: has it been peer‑reviewed, and is it mainly trying to sell something? If the answer to both is no, it probably counts as grey literature and could add useful, up‑to‑date context to your assignments, dissertations or early research projects.

Learn more about how to ethically and effectively incorporate grey literature into your next literature search.

The FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off this week, so we thought it was the perfect time to explore the relationship between football performance and nutrition. Will the teams be utilising any of these findings? Here's just some of the latest research articles in FSTA which have caught our eye:

> Static Stretching Acutely Reduces the Ergogenic Effects of Caffeine on Sprint Performance but Not Maximal Ball Velocity in Football Players

Refik Çabuk et al., European Journal of Sport Science, Volume 26, Issue 2

> Selecting and specifying target behaviours to enable nutritional adherence in male academy footballers

Stephanie V Roe at al., Performance Nutrition, Volume 2, 2026

> Effects of Beetroot and Pomegranate Juice Supplementation on Creatine Kinase and C-Reactive Protein in Amateur Soccer Players

Nesrine Sana Kerrour et al., North African Journal of Food and Nutrition Research, Volume 9, Issue 20

 

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The latest articles from our Thought for Food and Research Skills blogs 

Adopting a Mediterranean Diet: 30 Years On Analysing the Mediterranean diet’s nutritious and broader health benefits three decades after it entered the food landscape reveals new insights for both athletes and non-athletes. Read more

Football and Gut Microbiota: The importance of a healthy gut on athletic performance We're sharing this article from the archives ahead of the FIFA World Cup, exploring a new way of enhancing peak performance in elite football players. Read more

FSTA helps you discover emerging research quickly, adding new entries weekly. In May, over 23,000 new records were added, curated from 678 different sources, including 121 publishers based in 49 countries.

Learn more about the newest additions, screened by the FSTA science team for quality, integrity, and relevance.