You see them on virtually everything you eat. In most cases, nutrition facts are a federally-mandated requirement for food makers. They inform eaters about the ingredients and nutritional value of what we eat. For a good reason, too. These days, there are more chemicals than ever in our foods. Everything from chips to bread has…
Have you ever heard the term “low hanging fruit”? It describes something easy to achieve or check off a list. Depending on how you look at things, low-hanging fruit can be bad or good. A salesperson needs to go after low-hanging fruit to make sure they’re hitting their numbers, but an intelligent scientist who is…
Not too many people in the U.S. eat a ton of ginger. For most of us, it’s something we find in teas or maybe in some holiday treats. We eat a lot of gingerbread, for example, during the holidays every year, but ginger certainly isn’t a staple in many American diets. However, the spicy root…
Cow’s milk has long been a hero of our diets, told to provide us with strength and health. But the more we read and learn, the more we understand what’s really good for our health. And that’s got a lot of us questioning our childhood cereal-topper and beverage of choice. It’s not necessarily that dairy…
We’ve all heard since we were little kids that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” But as you’ve grown up, your list of reasons to put off or skip breakfast has probably grown, too. Everyday pressures like balancing getting enough sleep and still making it to work on time, or more personal…
Many of us associate the microwave with hot food in a hurry… and radiation. We often refer to the act of microwaving our food as “nuking” it, which, if you were alive during any part of the last century, is likely a phrase that brings to mind images of mushroom clouds and obliterating human combustion….
Many of us have been using food as medicine in one way or another throughout our lives. Ginger tea can help an upset stomach, prune juice is great for constipation, cranberry juice can help symptoms of a urinary tract infection, and honey can help soothe a sore throat. Every culture and family has their magical…
On a typical Friday night, you might find yourself out at dinner with a group of friends. As soon as you sit down and start catching up, you’ll study the drink menu and inevitably decide to share a bottle of wine. You agree on the color of the wine, price, and preferred taste, then eagerly…
Most people will agree that pickles may not be a favorite with everyone, but it tends to leave a memorable taste once you eat one. A pickle is any food product that has been preserved with brine, but you’ll find that most people in the U.S. use the term “pickle” to refer to pickled cucumbers….
If you’re an adult, you probably remember food pyramid posters hanging in the cafeteria at school or on the wall in your health class. We all learned, at least in the U.S. that the current form of the food pyramid was what built a healthy body and life. It all started with getting most of…
Have you ever started eating something that tasted good, and when you turned the package around to see how much of it you should eat you couldn’t believe it? Something like tortilla chips lists a serving size at around 7 chips! Who eats just seven chips at a time? Serving sizes can catch us by…
If you’ve walked into a Starbucks to make an order lately or walked down the aisles of your local grocery store, you know that milk isn’t just “milk” anymore. For centuries, “Do you want milk with that?” meant one thing – cow’s milk. It’s what we in the United States put in coffee, dipped cookies…