Remember warming up for the big basketball tournament when Eye of the Tiger and Jock Jams were pumping up your speed and adrenaline for a big win? Switch scenes to the coffee shop full of studying college students composing research papers for hours to the mellow tunes of Jack Johnson or Mozart. The music choices in each given location seem obvious. Music can make or break an atmosphere. Speaking of which… Read the rest of this entry »

Something magical happens when a person learns that they can indulge in an ice cream bar without also indulging in the guilt of 40g of sugar; they go nuts and this “magic” ingredient begins to pop up in everything from chocolate to instant oatmeal. Today’s Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever eaten ice cream that tasted so far from the delicious creaminess of Häagen-Dazs that you begin to wonder how it can even be called ice cream? It cant! Congratulations, you have just discovered a very interesting regulation that the FDA calls a “Standard of Identity.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tuna Trivia.
Let’s skip the ubiquitous info on how great Omega 3 is for our health and focus on why some ocean dwellers have more of it than others. You may have been able to please mom by eating fish sticks as a kid, but face it- your Filet-O-Fish sandwich won’t reap the same Omega 3 reward as salmon or (gasp & gag) sardines. Why? Read the rest of this entry »

You may be able to cheat at poker when you play with your friends, but when you go to the poker playing mecca, you can be sure nobody in Vegas will let you pull the wool over their eyes. Don’t get the wool pulled over yours either. When it comes to food, manufacturers know that more people will buy their product if it claims to “lower cholesterol” or “boost immunity.” But many of these companies are cheating, and few people know the rulebook well enough to blow the whistle.

When you see a statement on the front of a carton of yogurt that says “helps builds strong bones,” it is called a structure/function claim. Read the rest of this entry »