What is Food Coloring?
Food coloring is also known as artificial color.
It is added to food and drinks to create a specific appearance.
Food colors are prevalent in our...
An (Unplanned) Artificial Color Experiment
It’s no secret that junk food manufacturers love using festive packaging and neon colors to appeal to kids and adults alike. The artificial color...
Junk Food Tries to Take Over Latin America, Nations Fight Back
Several Latin American countries are dealing with increasing obesity rates by passing junk food laws, including putting taxes on junk food. Countries with junk...
My Journey to GMO-Free Living and Why It’s So Important
I receive a lot of questions and emails about GMOs (genetically modified organisms). Why am I GMO-free? Why is it such a big issue?...
Why Fruits and Vegetables Can Be So Expensive
How many times have you stood in the produce department or in a farmer’s market and wondered why fruits and vegetables are so expensive?...
In-N-Out Commits To Phasing Out Routine Use of Antibiotics From Beef Supply Chain
One
more fast food company will reduce the amount of antibiotics in its burgers.
In-N-Out Burger recently announced it will eliminate antibiotics important to
human medicine from...
Uzbekistan Bans GMOs in Baby Food
Uzbekistan
is known for being ruled by a dictator named Islam Karimov. Or as the CIA describes it, Uzbekistan’s government features “authoritarian presidential rule
with little power...
Kids Like Green Drinks Too
Proud mommy moment: My two-year-old daughter (pictured above) slurping down a green drink like it’s a milk shake!
When you think about it, it’s actually...
3 Reasons Why We’re Fatter Than 30 Years Ago (and It’s Not Food or...
Thirty years ago really were the good old days when it came to eating, exercise, and weight loss. Why? The authors of a new...
Emails Reveal Collaborations Between Monsanto and Paid-Off Professors
Monsanto appears to have had cozy relationships with some U.S. academics. The consumer group U.S. Right to Know obtained emails that reveal the agrichemical...
