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The bounty of summer produce encourages us to eat more fruits and vegetables. It seems like the healthy thing to do, and it is. But it’s also time to consider the issue of pesticide residues, and when you should buy organic versus conventional produce. Rinsing the produce does not remove all of the chemical residue.…
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Make your daily chocolate nibble fairly-traded. Photo of Equal Exchange Minis by Elvira Kalviste. This year, we went Fair Trade for Halloween. That means that the chocolate we handed out was ethically produced. While you won’t see many articles about it, cacao is an agricultural product that uses child slave labor in the fields.…
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You’ve heard that chocolate is good for you, but those claims leave out two key points: Many of the flavanoids, the healthy antioxidants in cacao beans, are cooked out of the beans during the roasting process. Chocolate contains lots of refined sugar—milk chocolate and white chocolate have the most sugar, bittersweet chocolate (70% cacao or…
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