Most of us have done it. You’re cleaning out the back of a cabinet and you find something that’s been there since who knows when – a jar of this, a bag of that, a bottle that somehow migrated behind everything else. You check the date, panic a little, and then throw it away because…
Everyone acts like ordering a salad is automatically the healthy choice. But a restaurant salad drowning in croutons, candied nuts, creamy dressing, and bacon bits can easily hit 1,200 calories with almost no fiber, protein, or anything your body actually needs. Meanwhile some of the foods we’ve written off as junk have legitimate nutrition hiding…
Nobody signed up for this. At some point in the last few decades, while the world was wrapping everything in plastic for convenience, microplastics started showing up in things we eat every day and most people have no idea. Microplastics are fragments smaller than 5 millimeters, often far smaller, that come from the breakdown of…
Everyone’s talking about gut health. Probiotics, prebiotics, microbiome this, leaky gut that. Most of it is marketing. Some of it is real, peer-reviewed science with human trial data behind it. This list is only the second kind. Every food on this list has at least one published reference behind the claim being made about it…
There’s a specific kind of shame that happens in the cereal aisle. You reach for the box with the cartoon character on it, glance at the label, and quietly put it back in favor of something with “ancient grains” in the name and a color palette that screams wellness. Here’s the thing though. The story…
Most of us have shopping habits that don’t really change. Adding ‘different’ foods to your grocery shopping is rare – after all that may just go to waste in your pantry. Sometimes people may add broccoli or an ‘if’ item to their grocery shopping. But, did you know there are everyday foods that most people…