Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, FAND, is a veteran in the food and nutrition industry with close to 20 years of experience. She is the founder of Toby Amidor Nutrition, where she provides nutrition and food safety consulting services for individuals, restaurants, and food brands. For 12 years, she has been the nutrition expert for FoodNetwork.com and a founding contributor to its Healthy Eats blog. She is a regular contributor to U.S. News & World Report Eat + Run blog, Muscle & Fitness online, Shape.com, SparkPeople.com, and EatThisNotThat.com  and she has her own “Ask the Expert” column in Today’s Dietitian magazine. Toby has been quoted in hundreds of national publications and appears on television regularly. For the past 11 years, she has also been an adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.  In 2018, Toby was honored with the Media Excellence Award awarded by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Toby is a Wall Street Journal best-selling cookbook author of seven cookbooks including The Greek Yogurt Kitchen: More Than 130 Delicious, Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Day; The Healthy Meal Prep Cookbook: Easy and Wholesome Meals to Cook, Prep, Grab, and Go; The Easy 5-Ingredient Cookbook: Simple Recipes to Make Healthy Eating Delicious; Smart Meal Prep for Beginners: Recipes and Weekly Plans for Healthy, Ready-to-Go Meals; The Best Rotisserie Chicken Cookbook Ever: 100 Tasty Recipes Using A Store Bought Bird, released in early 2020; The Create-Your-Plate Diabetes Cookbook: A Plate Method Approach To Simple, Complete Meals; and The Best 3-Ingredient Cookbook: 100 Fast and Easy Recipes for Everyone. Toby trained as a clinical dietitian at New York University. Through ongoing consulting and faculty positions, she has established herself as one of the top experts in culinary nutrition, food safety, and nutrition communications.

Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, FAND, has the following relevant disclosures to report: she is an Ambassador for the National Dairy Council and the American Dairy Association Northeast; she is a member of the Beef Checkoff Expert Bureau and Dannone Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Advisory Board; she is a spokesperson for Grapes from California and the California Strawberry Commission; and she is a nutrition consultant for the Alliance for Food and Farming and a consultant to the Animal Agriculture Alliance. She certifies that no conflict of interest exists for this program. View our disclosure policy.

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