Healthy

The impact food has on health has been a hot topic for decades. In the mid-90s, experts at CultureWaves, the behavior science company that keeps us up to date on emerging trends, began talking about consumers eating foods for specific health benefits. Food brands began promoting the beneficial effects of specific foods and ingredients (neutraceuticals), and adding all kinds of ingredients thought to have positive effects, as people moved more toward eating with the mind-body effect front-and-center.�

How to Grow a Superfood Garden

These recipes for Healthy Smoothie Bowls are courtesy of southern-California based company Reveri, which sells delicious plant-based frozen desserts. The product is dairy-free, contains no GMOs and uses soluable dietary fiber to create it's rich, creamy texture.

Healthy Smoothie Bowls

Today, as I was throwing things into a pot of chili, readying it for a cold winter�s eve, I threw in my secret ingredient, then did a little internet searching. Turns out my secret�adding a can of V8, with its antioxidants and concentrated veggies�is pretty well known. �

My Secret Ingredient

With improving health and dietary habits being top of many New Year's resolution lists, we're sharing some key tips from Chef Hoffmann on simple steps you can take to start cooking healthier meals at home. � � ��

Cooking Healthier Meals At Home

Community Table is definitely a cookbook, but it's so much more. It's a roadmap for creating a thriving ecological food future, filled with stories, education, and recipes that celebrate the farm-to-table concept and make it a tangible reality.

Review: Community Table – Recipes for an Ecological Food Future

Adding a beautifully-brilliant, contrasting crimson color to our tables, cranberries offer us far more than mere beauty that�s worth beholding far beyond the holidays!

A New Cran-i-tude!

Matcha, made from green tea leaves, is rich in antioxidants and vitamins. It makes an interesting ingredient for all types of beverages, including milkshakes.

8 Matcha Milkshake Recipes You Just Need to Have

Consuming beets, or their juices, can decrease risk of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Beets also improve blood flow, promote healthy complexion, hair, improve athletic performance, increase energy, and help lower blood pressure, too!

Beet It!

Crescent Dragonwagon sits down for an interview with Food Channel Editor, John Scroggins.

Meeting A Mentor: A Visit With Crescent Dragonwagon

Plums are a dandy fruit that are native to not one but a number of ports, including China, America, Europe and Caukasus, which is good because it offers so many health benefits that its good to know it can be appreciated all over the world!

Go Plum Dandy!

I have always loved the taste, smell and even the look of chives, especially when blooming with those passionate, purple seed heads. What is surprising is that chives also offer important health benefits, which include boosting heart health, improving the strength of our bones, protecting us against a wide range of cancers, easing digestion, boosting vision and boosting our immune system, too!

The Health Benefits of Growing Your Own Chives

This year, we have a three-course meal with a creative cocktail from Primal Kitchen to help you celebrate Valentine's Day the healthy way! See your first, second and third-course menu options below and don't forget to end the night with one of three delicious collagen-infused cocktails.

Healthy Three-Course Valentine's Day Dinner