Along with fresh fruits and vegetables, all-natural and organic products are sprouting up at local farmers markets as more buyers and sellers think green.
One such purveyor is Home Grown Design Foods in Converse, which specializes in all-natural, 100 percent gluten-free salsas, sauces, seasonings, jams, cornmeal and baking mixes.
Owner Sally Drew, who purchased Lamb Stone Ground Cornmeal from the Lamb heirs, started HGD Foods in 2003.
“We had a family member (who) found out that she had to eat gluten-free,” Drew said. “So when we started doing blending and mixing, we just …

Nashua is home to a number of Asian cuisine restaurants. Most notably Chinese and Japanese cuisine, and all offering a variety of dishes unique to their cultures, but there are two that offer Korean cuisine.
YouYou Japanese Bistro, at 150 Broad St. owned by Vincent Woo, a Chinese man who has been in business for 12 years, and Shira Kiku at 13 Broad St.; a Korean family-owned business run by Rob and Jeany Lee that opened last year.
Both restaurant owners discuss their individual approaches to authenticity in serving their cultural and …

TAKE it from Dr. Priscilla Chinte-Sanchez, our golden-yellow traditional rice wine, popularly known as tapuy in the north, is on a par, if not superior, to the internationally popular Japanese sake.
“In our study, we found out that our tapuy has better flavor and aroma than sake,” says the 72-year-old food scientist, now retired from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), but who continues to chair the biological sciences division of the National Research Council of the Philippines.
 
Tapuy is made from fermented rice.
Sanchez, an awardee on food technology during …

The Beijing Food Safety Administration will conduct a three-month campaign on food safety from July 13 on to ensure food safety during the National Day celebrations.
An official from BFSA stated that, under the leadership of the municipal government; the health department; the department for industry and commerce; the quality supervision department; and the agricultural department of the city will each take measures that are complementary to each other to guarantee the food safety of the city by combining their daily duties with this campaign. The official told local media that …

China-Biotics, Inc. (NSDQ: CHBT) reported positive financial results for its 2009 fiscal year, which ended in March. Sales rose 28% to $54.2 million, and non-GAAP net income climbed 19% to $16.9 million, a very healthy margin of 31%.
Revenues were in line with analysts’ expectations, but net income, which equates to 99 cents per diluted share, beat the street estimate of 83 cps.
The company makes probiotic products, which it sells OTC (often through its own stores) and as bulk additives. China-Biotic’s Shining Essence product was responsible for 40% of revenues.
The report …