Food Distribution Giant Reveals Nutrition Trends

Send to KindleTweet One of the biggest distributors of organic and natural foods, UNFI or United Natural Foods Inc., released its 3rd quarter roundup of trends, both existing and upcoming. The video below is geared at those that manage or own health food stores. Among the products hot listed are “super seeds,” non-dairy spreads and [...]

Harvard Researchers Study Can-BPA Consumption Link

Send to KindleTweet Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health released findings that consumption of canned suit led to higher levels of BPA in urine, according to a Nov. 22 news release. Scientists conducted a study with 75 volunteers and gave subjects soup from a can. After eating one 12-ounce serving of vegetarian canned [...]

Amex Joins Flash Sale Space

Send to KindleTweet American Express recently announced a new multi-year e-commerce deal to boost online business and establish ties with Web consumers. Amex plans to commit $100 million, with a focus on early stage e-commerce startups. Amex’s new digital commerce initiative will be run from its new Silicon Valley office, with Harshul Sanghi at the [...]

Gluten-Free Beer: A Health-Social Enterprise Mashup

Send to KindleTweet Is the latest health food drink a trend in both the social enterprise and alcohol sectors? European beer giant SABMiller just announced that it has launched a new beer called Impala, which is based primarily on the root vegetable, cassava. Cassava is often grown in tropical countries and in some nations is called yucca. SABMiller’s [...]

Ame Ame Opens First Boutique

Send to KindleTweet Woman-owned functional fashion brand Ame Ame is opening its first boutique in the East Village on Wednesday November 16. Founded and run by a Queens resident, Ame Ame was until now, a Web-based retailer of rain gear, from Wellies to trenches. Celebrate hump day with a jaunt in the East Village and [...]

Starbucks Makes Wellness Push With Acquisition – Retail & Raw in One Buy?

Send to KindleTweet Starbucks Coffee Company recently announced it acquired Evolution Fresh as part of a continued push to bank off of “healthier menu options.” Starbucks’ press releases cites statistics including that of a “$1.6 billion super-premium juice” sector and “a $50 billion health and wellness sector,” both of which it aims to take a [...]

Taschen Hosts Almodovar For Signing

Send to KindleTweet Publisher Taschen is hosting Spanish Film Director Pedro Almodovar on Monday November 14 for a book signing. The man behind Women on the Verge and Volver has a new book out, The Pedro Almodovar Archives, complete with more than 600 images and a film strip from Volver. Paper Magazine Publisher and Editor [...]

Target: Kid Hipster Looks For Less

Send to KindleTweet Jobs are like relationships– both start with a honeymoon period, the rush of the new. The honeymoon ends at about three months at which point the job becomes real with overnight responsibility and the relationship is real. After that, the next six months are OK, the lust or love develops and you [...]

Target Adds New Beauty Brand

Send to KindleTweet Target recently added a new skincare brand to its shelves with the addition of Nip + Fab, skin and body care collection from the U.K.’s Maria Hatzistefanis. Nip + Fab’s products are reportedly clinically tested. The line is made up of 14 products, each developing with a specific beauty issue in mind, [...]

McDonald’s Announces Sustainabilty Goal

Send to KindleTweet McDonald’s Corporation revealed a new sustainability aim last month after it joined the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Membership means the fast food giant is committed to its goal to source palm oil only from RSPO member companies by the end of 2011, and to use only RSPO-certified palm oil in [...]