REVIEW: Terra Medi Greek Oils, Olives, Bruschetta & Tapenade

Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil, EVOO, and EV Sesame Oil.   Olive lovers have a friend in Terra Medi. The company imports top-quality olive oils, bruschettas, tapenades, olive mixes, vinegars and a sesame oil from Greece. The bruschettas and tapenades are versatile ingredients for entertaining or for sprucing up everyday meals. They have found permanent…
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NEWS: Blueberry Juice Product Shows Health Benefits

Blueberry Punch: prostate cancer cure?   While it has only been tested in lab mice, a commercially available blueberry and grape fruit punch has had a significant effect on prostate cancer, reducing the growth of tumors by 25% in just two weeks. The mice were given a human version of the disease; scientists consider the…
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NEWS: Babies Learn To Like Foods In Utero

Love of broccoli and Brussels sprouts starts here. Photo by Denise Thuler | SXC.   Want your children to like fruits and vegetables? Start them young—in utero. According to scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, a lifelong taste for fruit and vegetables can be instilled in babies before they are born: The…
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NEWS: Better Test For Antioxidants

The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reports a better test for measuring the antioxidant value of foods. The CAA (cellular antioxidant activity) assay is a more biologically relevant method than the popular chemistry antioxidant activity assays because it accounts for some aspects of uptake, metabolism and location of antioxidant compounds within cells, according to…
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TRENDS: Black, The New Color Of Health Food?

McCormick came out with black food coloring this fall (it did not previously exist at the consumer level, so now you can ice chic [or goth] cupcakes to your heart’s content). Based on a food trend reported by Florida’s Sun Sentinel, McCormick may be an American trendsetter. Ebony-colored foods are red-hot in Japan and other…
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