By Dylan Love The season of the year and the freshness of your produce are inextricably linked. You may be unsure of what “in season” means, but the truth is, produce in your grocery store should be reflecting the seasonal harvest. Fruits and vegetables taste better and fresher at certain times of the year when
By Matt Rozsa When we think of medicines today, our minds tend to wander toward pills composed of synthetic substances and concocted in sterile laboratories. Yet natural substances have a wide range of medicinal properties that have been utilized. These four even date back to ancient Roman times! Poppy Poppy is one of the oldest
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By Matt Rozsa If you experience an allergic reaction to certain foods, it may not be because of the foods themselves. Scientific studies have found that food additives — substances which are added to foods to improve their taste or appearance — can cause these allergic reactions. Although most food additives are harmless, some of
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By Elena Sheppard Let’s talk about mushrooms, not “magic” mushrooms, or “special” mushrooms, just good old fashioned put them on your hamburger, or in your salad, or on the grill, mushrooms. Mushrooms are packed with health benefits and are easy to incorporate into just about any meal (breakfast omelettes, anyone?). Let’s discuss. So why exactly
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By Elena Sheppard You may already be eating organic, but are you drinking organic too? A lot of us are extremely careful about the food we consume, but we let our guards down a bit when it comes to drinking. The truth is, the same rules that apply to organic food, apply to organic alcohol
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By Elena Sheppard If you’re a lover of curries, then odds are turmeric is already a part of your diet. But delicious flavoring and beautiful yellow color aside, studies show (and the history of Ayurvedic medicine indicates) that turmeric is loaded with health benefits. Much of these perks are thanks to the compound curcumin. Found
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By Dylan Love Earlier this year, France became the first country to ban supermarkets from disposing of unsold food. Italy recently enacted tax breaks incentivizing businesses to donate unused food to charities that provide meals to those who need them. The international community’s tone is clear: let’s clean our plates. In the U.S., where 49.1
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By Dylan Love The Olympic Games in Rio are over. While that’s sad news for us sports lovers, it’s good news for most of these Olympic athletes — not only did they have to extensively train their bodies and minds for years, they also had to supplement their workouts with solid dietary regimes. Now that
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By Dylan Love Do you read ingredients? Do you read them closely enough to notice your favorite snack might actually be a real bummer? It’s increasingly difficult to be health-conscious nowadays. There are major differences in how the American food industry operates versus other countries, differences of attitude in what is an acceptable ingredient and
