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

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 bigger bite from. [...]

The Energy Bar Reincarnate

Diets, multiple jobs and an ever slowing metabolism are reasons enough to seek out healthy snack foods with less than 300 calories. Even with many great new health food companies, there are still few products that are not filled with carbohydrates or sugars. This is why our annual quest for good snacks led to a [...]

You Are What You Eat What:The raw food diet takes healthy to a new and questionable level where nature’s bounty is appreciated as is.

The Dirt:Is raw just another nutritional trend or a food theory that could improve the eating habits of Americans? Peruse a European grocery store and you won’t find the extensive options we have in America, such as 20 types of cookies, milk forms in the soy, hemp, rice and cow-derived varieties and three types of [...]

Pure EnergyRaw On The Road What:Born out of a mother’s desire to support a child’s wish, this energy bar is guilt-free and suitable for everyone.

The Dirt: A six-year-old that decides to go strictly veggie is nearly unimaginable, but it’s exactly what led Michigan-based Veronica Bosgraaf to start Pure Bar. Upon digesting her daughter’s wish to become a vegetarian, she began testing recipes at home. The rest is history, with proof via a number of national retailers and distribution via [...]

European Beauty: Where Quality And Quantity Unite

The sustainability that many American cosmetic companies adopt for sales and trend purposes is one that seems a genuine mission in the European community. Translation: it is quite rare to find a large, established cosmetic company in America that is creating products without harmful chemicals, in a sustainable manufacturing setting, simply because it is the [...]