How many fruits can you name in one minute? Apples, oranges, cucumbers…Wait, what?! Pretty much every adult has heard at some point in their life that tomatoes are technically a fruit and not a vegetable. The botanical definition for what makes something a fruit is actually pretty loose: fruit is the part of a plant…
Ah beets. When it comes to a split opinion on flavor, beets are right up there with cilantro. It seems that half of us, present company included, think that the beets taste like dirt – and not in a good way. The other half, the beet lovers, will only partially admit to this, instead describing…
Legends about mysterious, exotic plants that can enflame a woman’s desire or make a man more virile are as old as history itself. The quest for great nooky is one of the few things that unite people of the past, present, and future. The promise of an aphrodisiac is to enhance one’s desirability and/or increase…
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…
Plant based diet fads are on the rise. Even with some people that don’t want to go completely vegan, having a plant based meal occasionally has become a disciplinary norm for a lot of us. On top of that, many are choosing to be 100% vegan. Whether it be the rise of mistreatment in factory…
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…
Food is a way of life. Actually, it’s a requirement for life. Thus, food literally is life. And since we’ve been eating food since, well, the dawn of man, we humans have come up with about as many ways to combine ingredients into a meal as there are people on earth. Some of these combinations…
Food is a necessity. It can also be made into a pleasurable experience based on ingredients. One thing that can undeniably make food more desirable is mixing complementary ingredients that unlock a sensation on your tongue. Chocolate and peanut butter, anyone? Though many delicious flavor combos are commonplace in today’s world, you have to occasionally…
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…