Jamba Juice Expands Superfruit Offerings

Send to KindleTweet Publicly-traded smoothie company Jamba Juice (NASDAQ:JMBA) recently revealed a menu addition that puts it among the food companies banking on the superfruit trend. To embrace the trend and the wonderful summer season, Jamba Juice added three new Superfruit products. The new addition is Yumberry or ‘yangmei’, which will be available in the [...]

Fruit Kids Will Eat: Snacks That Pass Our Test

Send to KindleTweet Getting kids to eat fruit or vegetables after the age of two usually involves juice(s) or fruit disguised as fun snacks. Parents seeking healthy snacks can now add Funky Monkey freeze dried fruit snacks to the list of suitable lunchbox additions. Made from 100% fruit, the snacks are gluten-free, wheat-free, dairy-free, peanut [...]

Enriched Foods: A New-Old Super Grain

Send to KindleTweet The mainstream media has long questioned enriched foods, but the real question is–if there were food products that would eliminate the need for one more supplement or vitamin, would you buy them? Salba Smart and Core Naturals are betting yes. Health trends often warrant skepticism but some discoveries are just rebirths of [...]

The Coffee Placebo

Send to KindleTweet Stressful times call for legal vices, and coffee is usually the last addiction to be tackled. People may give up alcohol, soda, sugar, even nicotine, but coffee seems to have both neurological and emotional effects that are hard to abandon. Coffee is like a security blanket for most Americans putting in too [...]

Durable Pouches, Healthy Toddler Food

Send to KindleTweet From packaging to locally-sourced ingredients, these companies are turning baby food into a sophisticated, high-brow gourmet food business sector. The result is a bevy of beautiful, portable packages, most of which are BPA-free, that are great for travel since they are light and have caps that enable moms and dads to reseal [...]

The Ethical Fix: Shaman Organic Chocolate

Send to KindleTweet Farming is a political business that has only gotten more complicated with increased demands and organic debates. Bidding wars over crop prices, commodities trading and the dislocation of people, indigenous or not, has only fueled the politics surrounding what is one of the oldest professions. So, what does this have to do [...]

Duane Reade Pushes DeLish

Send to KindleTweet The creation of yet another snack line may seem insignificant, but while the lot of well-educated and privileged people believe that simply teaching people to cook will end obesity, the truth is that we must wage a war against the widespread overuse of corn syrup and salt. This became clear when I [...]

Ludacris Debuts Cognac

Send to KindleTweet Recording artist Chris Bridges, AKA Ludacris, introduced Conjure on The Jay Leno Show on October 20. Conjure is a warm cognac developed with Birkedal Hartmann, a creator of cognac since 1887. Led by Kim Birkedal Hartmann, the relationship with Bridges created the blend of thirty to forty eaux-de-vie, aged in oak barrels [...]