In a research study 3 to 5 year olds were able to correctly connect foods with brands and restaurant chains because of repeated exposure at home or when eating out. Kids as young as 3 make food choices based on food ads. What do kids want most — foods high in salt, sugar and fat. … Read More
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We love to try new foods. Some are great. Some don’t measure up and some become staples in our kitchen. See what you think.
Sans Sucre (which means “sugar free” in French) produces a line of baking mixes sweetened with Stevia, a natural, no calorie plant, native to Paraguay that has been used as sweetener and flavor enhancer for centuries. Stevia sweetener is new to the US market and it is appearing in a wider array of foods. The mixes also contain sorbitol, a sugar substitute found in many sugar free and sugar reduced foods… … Read More
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Walk off a fatty meal. Research has shown that a high fat meal has a negative impact on your health for up to 6 hours after eating. But, if you take a brisk walk after eating, you can reduce some of the risk of eating too much fat. … Read More
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The World Is Getting Fatter Over a half billion adults worldwide weigh too much; 205 million men and 297 million women. A major study, published in Lancet gathered an enormous amount of data from countries throughout the world. The results show that obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are worldwide problems. And, as populations … Read More
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We love to try new foods. Some are great. Some don’t measure up and some become staples in our kitchen. See what you think.
Jayone Foods offers a wide selection of Korean products. We recently tried two.
Sea’s Gift is an excellent seaweed snack made from jarae-kim seaweed harvested in the west and southwest regions of South Korea. Though neither of us are seaweed lovers, we were pleasantly surprised at the crunchy taste. All come in 5 gram, single-serve packages… … Read More
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The Myth: Peanut butter is loaded with undesirable trans fat. Recurring rumors that peanut butter contains trans fat – which increases the risk for heart disease – are totally wrong. A very small amount of hydrogenated (hardened) vegetable oil is added to most peanut butter to stop the oil from separating. A study showed that … Read More
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Statin drugs are usually prescribed to lower cholesterol. Red yeast rice contains mevinic acids which are similar to the active ingredient in the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin (Mevacor). Both block the body’s ability to make cholesterol. Your body actually makes more cholesterol daily than you get from food, so blocking this action can lower your total … Read More
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We love to try new foods. Some are great. Some don’t measure up and some become staples in our kitchen. See what you think.
These products are really outstanding. We had the pleasure of sampling Bella Sun Luci sun dried tomatoes packaged in 3.5-ounce bags at a recent food expo and thought the product was very good. The company then sent us samples of jarred sun dried tomatoes in extra virgin olive oil and they are mind-blowing delicious… … Read More
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According to a new statistics from the UN Food and Argiculture Organization, roughly one-third of the world’s food supply is lost or wasted. At a time when land, water and energy resources needed to feed a global population of 6.9 billion are increasingly limited, this loss is staggering. In developed countries, like the US, food … Read More
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