Durable Pouches, Healthy Toddler Food

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 pouches. Among the [...]

The Super Seed

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

Healing Probiotic Tea

High Country Kombucha might be the small beverage company that could. While there are many Kombucha tea companies that offer sexy packaging and trendy ingredients, we trust High Country. They have everything covered, from the new age-style packaging and the organic and Fair Trade certifications, to the “amber” bottle meant to “preserve the life of [...]

Superfood ObsessionWhat: Navitas Naturals has made entrepreneurship and green sexy with their discovery of many new superfoods from Latin America.

The Dirt: Navitas Naturals is one of those companies you wish you’d started. Why didn’t I think of that? That’s what comes to mind when perusing the extensive array of products offered by this superfood company based outside San Francisco, in Marin County. Thanks to Founder and CEO Zach Adelman, we now have easy access [...]

The Next Super Berry What: This popular drink company is harnessing the taste and supposed antioxidant properties of a Chinese berry to sell a new water-meets-fruit punch beverage.

The Dirt:We won’t lie. This drink doesn’t claim to cure ailments, detoxify all the vodka you’ve guzzled over the last year, or make your skin blemish free. Those are lofty expectation for anything that can be purchased over the counter. However, we think this drink is the perfect happy medium between water and juice. Now [...]

Mom-Made Healthy Kids Food A Happy Healthy Medium What:The latest crop of premade kids’ foods offer a middle ground between the two extreme worlds of corn syrup and white flour, and agave and tapoioca starch.

The Dirt:One of the biggest wellness trends going on this decade is the arena of healthy kids foods that actually good. This trend results in the creation of products that make children, parents, food companies, retailers and marketers happy. The back to basics approach often involves new companies led by mothers, who create and package [...]

Soda Reincarnated Tea Meets Soda In This Healthy AlternativeWhat: The beverage industry responds to America’s health issues with tea-based soda drinks, but how do they stack up?

The Dirt: The Healthy Beverage Company entered the business of tea-based beverages ahead of the pack with its Steaz brand, before green tea was a household name. Releasing its first product in 2003, the company added a diet bottle soda to the mix in fall 2007 and this January, added a canned soda variety suitable [...]