If you didn’t know, all the cool kids have been drinking something fancy called golden milk. No, that’s not a euphemism for drugs. It’s one of those fancy, healthy lattes that’s on offer at every hipster café and health shop, along with charcoal lattes (which aren’t as good for you as everyone claims, FYI) and mermaid drinks with algae. Golden...
Nobody can deny the value of oxygen, but breathing isn't the only way to get it into our bodies. Drinking oxygenated water supposedly offers an easy-to-use way to get a lot of oxygen into your system quickly. A process called sublingual absorption allows the oxygen to be pulled into the capillaries in the mouth. Further oxygen is absorbed by...
Imagine a place to kick back with a glass of mushroom lemonade, chat with other people who know their reishi from their cordyceps, and maybe even share recipes and favorite workout spots. Your fungi-fueled dreams are starting to come true. (Don’t have any such dreams? Here’s why you still might want to sip!). The Shroom Room, the brainchild of...
Coop, Switzerland’s second-largest supermarket chain will begin selling insect burgers for human consumption after the country’s food safety laws were revised. Coop said insect-based produce such as the flour burgers and balls of protein-rich mealworm will go on sale next week. Switzerland is the first European country to authorize the sale of...
sales of canned wine have skyrocketed. "We've sold tens of thousands of cases of canned wine over the last 18 months," says Devon Broglie, Whole Foods' master sommelier. Three years in the making, Whole Foods' proprietary Presto brand canned sparkling wine is part of the company's aim to lure millennials to the wine department, women in...
U.K.-based Fresh Range is one of a band of emerging startups hoping not only to disrupt the journey taken by food on its way to the kitchen table, but to also set a far higher benchmark for the quality of what we eat, and reduce the environmental impact of our groceries to boot. Basically, they cut out the middle man (supermarkets) to offer...
Cheesecake Factory is one of America's top fast-casual restaurants, known for huge portions and an arms-length list of their namesake cheesecake. Now the company is selling restaurant-branded cheesecake mixes you can make at home so you can whip up your own cheesecake, strawberry cheesecake, snickerdoodle cookies, chocolate cupcakes, &...
AquaBounty Technologies in Maynard, Massachusetts, has said it's sold about 5 tons of genetically-modified (GM) salmon fillets to unnamed customers in Canada.
These fish can reportedly grow twice as fast as conventionally-farmed Atlantic salmon, reaching adult size in some 18 months as compared to 30 months. AquaBounty has also claimed...
The French have once again invented something irrefutably French: a 24-hour oyster vending machine. Of course the machines are refrigerated, and they also have glass walls so consumers can choose which oysters they want. One farmer, Tony Berthelot (who has a machine on Ile de Re island, off France's western coast) says the idea was born from "...
