NEWS: Bottled Tea Can Be Low On Antioxidants

A good choice: Snapple shows the milligrams of tea polyphenols on its bottle labels. They are equivalent to a cup of home-brewed tea. Photo courtesy Snapple. Bottled tea is a $1 billion industry in the United States. In the past decade, many people have switched to it from soft drinks because of the antioxidant-generated health…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Liquorice (That’s Licorice Candy From Australia)

Licorice is a “healthier candy”: no cholesterol, no salt. Most Americans have had the pleasure of a bag of red licorice. Yet we’ve learned that red, chocolate and any color licorice but black isn’t licorice. To be real licorice—and enjoy its health benefits—there must be licorice root extract, which creates black candy. That’s only one…
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PRODUCT: Kitchen Tongs = Salad Tongs

Our Orka kitchen tongs go from counter to table. (Color availability will vary.) Many people use salad servers—a long fork-and-spoon set—to serve salad. They’re not the simplest utensils to use neatly. Over time, the fork and spoon have been joined together by some manufacturers to create salad tongs. (Food tongs comprise two arms that are…
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