5 Ways to Curb Food Waste At Home
We’re excited to see an influx of new devices designed to eliminate food waste. From student design projects to crowd-funded food savers to apps that help manage expiration dates, there are all sorts of high tech options on the horizon that hold promise for food waste crusaders. Read on for a round-up of food waste […]
4th of July Food Ideas: Red, White, Blue and Delicious!
Looking forward to our nation’s birthday? One of the best ways to make this July 4th memorable is a patriotic picnic. So how to make a picnic patriotic? However you can, show your colors: red, white and blue. Perhaps the easiest way is with everything but the food. Plates, cups and utensils – get them […]
Top 10 Natural & Organic Food Trends
Sterling-Rice Group (SRG) has identified the top 10 natural and organic food trends that will influence mainstream grocery shelves soon. With a breadth and depth of culinary experience, the brand strategy, innovation, and communications firm has counseled and created foods for several of the largest food companies in the world. Wholesome Foods Just for Men: […]
Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food
The present-day sweet corn we serve in summer bears little resemblance to its wild ancestor – a grassy plant called teosinte. A bushy plant with short spikes of grain instead of ears, teosinte has only 5 to 12 kernels in each spike and the kernels are encased in shells so hard you’d need a hammer […]
10 foods that fight spring allergies
Work vitamin C-rich foods (like citrus and broccoli) into your diet and turn to stinging nettle as a potent natural form of allergy relief. Thanks to climate change, every allergy season is the worst allergy season ever. Warmer temperatures have led to earlier springs and longer allergy seasons, while higher levels of carbon dioxide […]
Smaller But Better! Organic Tomatoes Pack More Nutritional Punch
Research results yield further proof that organic produce is endowed with enhanced nutritional properties. Organic tomatoes are 40 percent smaller in size and mass than their conventional cousins, but they pack in more nutritional compounds such as Vitamin C, lycopene and other phenolics, a new study has found. Researchers published their findings Wednesday in the […]
We Used To Have 307 Kinds Of Corn. Guess How Many Are Left?
Just a brief look at the biodiversity loss in our modern food system. Biodiversity is like a bank for nature, the more you have in it the more you make, the more you take out the closer you are to going ecologically bankrupt.
Real Food Right Now and How to Cook It: Parsnips
By Kim O’Donnel | 02.20.2013 If you cooked and ate solely based on the first impressions of others, you might never let a parsnip pass your lips. An online search yields the kind of reviews guaranteed to make aspiring parsnip eaters run in the opposite direction. Here’s a just a small sample of the bad […]
3 Vital Foods for Vibrant, Youthful Skin
If you’re on the search for the Fountain of Youth like millions of other people, redirect your attention to these amazing functional superfoods that have been proven to slow the anti-aging process through their nutrient dense, antioxidant-rich, and wrinkle-fighting compounds! Raspberries:Raspberries may be small, but don’t be fooled by their size; this tiny berry can […]
QAI makes predictions for organic industry in 2023
Coming on the heels of the 10th anniversary for USDA Organic as federal law, QAI (Quality Assurance International), a leading certifier of organic and gluten-free products with 23 years of experience, has unveiled its 10-year prophecy for the organic industry based on its more than two decades of experience. This year, QAI has certified more […]
Free “Real Food” Meal Plans
The folks over at 100 Days of Real Food have created 5 free “real food” meal plans to help busy families; making things a little easier for those want to cut out processed food. According to their website, if you follow the instructions below to download the meal plans then this is what you’ll get: […]
Revealed: What the Beef Industry Pumps Into Your Dinner
A common industry practice puts consumers at higher risks for eating food contaminated by deadly pathogens — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. By Tara Lohan Alternet and Global Possibilities, December 13, 2012 If acclaimed authors Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Jeremy Rifkin (Beyond Beef) and John Robbins (Diet for a New America) haven’t […]