TIP OF THE DAY: Sushi & Salad

[1] The Full Circle sushi roll from Bamboo Sushi in Portland, Oregon, places a salad in the center of cut sushi rolls (photo courtesy Bamboo Sushi). [2] Dress the salad with yuzu, if you can. Yuzu is a delicious citrus that combines the flavors and aromas of lemon, lime and grapefruit (photo courtesy J. Patokal…
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PRODUCT: R.W. Knudsen Nature’s Peak Juices

One of our favorite juice producers, R.W. Knudsen, is offering another way to eat more veggies—or in this case, drink more veggies. The 100% juice blends are 50:50 fruit juice and vegetable juice from concentrate or purée. But the flavor profiles lean toward the sweet, so no veggie-hater need know. An eight-ounce glass contains 100…
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PRODUCT: Buy A Bottle Of Honeydrop, Save A Bee

Three of six varieties of Honeydrop bottled teas and juices. Photo courtesy Honeydrop.   When Honeydrop Beverages debuted in 2009, everyone at THE NIBBLE loved the juice and tea drinks sweetened with a tablespoon of wildflower honey. We gave the drinks—more nutritious and lower glycemic alternatives to sugar- and HFCS-sweetened beverages—an enthusiastic review. The company…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sparkling Juice

Love fruit juice but not the calories? You can juice up for one-fourth the calories and carbs by turning your juice drink into a sparkling juice “spritzer”: Just fill the glass 1/4 full with fruit juice and top off with club soda or seltzer. You also can: Mix the recipe by using 1/2 juice and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Tomato Juice Cocktail, a.k.a. Virgin Mary

Start dinner with a tomato juice cocktail, a.k.a. Virgin Mary. Photo by Marlena Zagajewski | Dreamstime. When was the last time you had a glass of tomato juice (that wasn’t a Bloody Mary)? Earlier this year we wrote about juice “cocktails,” and how the custom of starting lunch or dinner with a glass of tomato…
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