How to Be a Conscious Eater
milk is another good option. Flax milk is my personal favorite. Soy has stirred much controversy, particularly around breast can ...
PLANET Plant-based milks are an upgrade in planet protection. Anything involving cows requires a ton of water because of all the ...
STICKING WITH COW’S MILK? HERE ARE SIGNALS OF HIGHER ANIMAL WELFARE STANDARDS The typical treatment standards for dairy cows in ...
14 FERMENTED FOODS AND FIBER W hen we eat food, it travels down our intestinal tract, known less elegantly as our “gut.” Along t ...
To correct this, all signs point to fiber as the ticket to a thriving community of gut bacteria. Although fiber is dubbed a “nut ...
container, along with ingredients like Lactobacillus bulgaricus or Streptococcus thermophilus. NOW IT’S TIME FOR SOME CRITICAL C ...
15 POLLINATOR PROTECTION M any of us love honey in our tea and on our Cheerios, in our salad dressing and on our Greek yogurt. B ...
nectar to be had. Loss of wild habitat—in household gardens, on farms, in once-wild places cleared for development—also leaves f ...
types of neonicotinoids—which are scientific-looking, mul- tisyllabic words like imidacloprid—and names of home garden products ...
16 A GENTLE RAIN ON THE PLANT-BASED PARADE A bout 39 percent of Americans are trying to eat more plant- based foods. That’s acco ...
Just because a food is vegan does not mean it is healthy. French fries can be vegan. Doughnuts can be vegan. I’m a little fuzzy ...
my colleagues at The Culinary Institute of America and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health suggest that Americans ai ...
17 HOW TO CHOOSE A COOKING OIL W alk into any grocery store and you’ll often find the number of cooking oils overwhelming. Walnu ...
refined an oil is, the higher its smoke point. Refining means extracting the liquid from the nut, seed, or fruit by using heat a ...
Production methods and point of origin: Production practices vary widely for different cooking fats. There’s the land to grow or ...
worried about that, opt for organic. Olive oil doesn’t get off altogether, as its long-sustainable production practices haven’t ...
18 THE OLIVE OIL VS. COCONUT OIL SHOWDOWN A rguably the two most top-of-mind cooking oils are olive and coconut. Here’s the gist ...
And coconut oil is in hot water with Fair Trade USA because of the extreme poverty that coconut farmers endure in places like th ...
19 FREEZING AND (GLOBAL) WARMING A strawberry right off the vine. A cucumber with a satis- fying crunch. A tomato still warm fro ...
trucks or railcar, access to food for those who don’t live near fresh sources of it. We should be thankful to live in a time whe ...
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