Food Distribution Giant Reveals Nutrition Trends

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 cooking oils, and [...]

Entrepreneur Profile: Sun Putty

Most people are probably wondering if the public needs one more sunscreen but scrutinize most labels and you’ll see the answer is most definitely yes. The family-owned business, Sun Putty, is run by a husband and wife couple, each of whom hold down full-time jobs while raising three children. After moving from the Los Angeles [...]

Alicia Silverstone To Expand Beauty Collection

Actress, author and outspoken vegan Alicia Silverstone is expanding her EcoTools collection with three planned additions and updates to three sets. The April 2011 launch set for release at Walmart, Target, and Walgreens will include bags to store tools on the go, and brushes. The offerings will be made from materials including hemp, recycled PET, [...]

The Food Orgasm: Coconut Milk Frozen Dessert

Love is the only reason I can justify spending $7 on a pint of frozen dessert. Tonight, when I brought my basket to the register at Garden of Eden, the checkout girl was dumbfounded when I responded $6.99 after the scanner failed to assign a price to my treat: Luna & Larry’s Bare Naked Coconut [...]

Enriched Foods: A New-Old Super Grain

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 old trends. Such [...]

The New Dairy Alternative: Hemp’s Future

A milk alternative hardly seems cause for protest or legislation but in the case of hemp, all of the above are justified. One might liken the resource as a criminal put in jail without a fair trial, convicted with DNA evidence, for the natural resource has the potential to be as successful as bamboo when [...]

The Super Seed

Canadian farmers are helping food manufacturers bring the powerful, healthy seed to the masses.

Hemp: The New Lumber

The Dirt: Stanford University researchers be the savior to the treehuggers and the forests thanks to a formula for a biodegradable lumber substitute. Yes, we are back to our beloved hemp. Sure, it’s a source of omega fatty acids, a cow’s milk substitute and a fiber to make clothes with, but now it might be [...]

Beauty For A Better World

Caviar, gold, mango, grapefruit and hemp seeds. What do these elements all have in common? They are the basis for the irresistible skin care items featuring in Trendcetera.com’s party goody bags and raffle, which benefited HIV/AIDS nonprofit Sekolo Projects. If you are like us and you have multiple beauty personalities, you will be able to [...]

The Energy Dilemma What: An environmentalist and filmmaker offers one side of the oil story, tying together energy, cancer and economic disaster.

The Dirt: Are fossil fuels a necessary evil or an addiction with many negative side effects, concealed by the smart and shrill powers that be? The left will tell you it’s a conspiracy in the name of money, and the right will say no one can tell whether pollution and cancer came before or after [...]

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