PepsiCo brought out a berry-flavored soft drink by the name Pepsi Blue in mid 2002. It was discontinued in the US and Canada in 2004 but some countries still continue selling it. They created the berry flavor after testing tastes of over a hundred other flavors over a nine month long span to compete with rival Coca Cola’s Vanilla Coke. A lot of drinkers said that the flavor o the Pepsi Blue was identical to cotton candy with an aftertaste of berries. Some said it tasted like raspberry and some …

 
Despite the fact that I eat incredibly clean, healthy food, with only a few exceptions, I do still cleanse regularly (like this Sunday!), at least with every change of season.
Eating a healthful diet definitely reduces the levels of toxins we absorb into our body, however, we still absorb a lot of crap from our environment. We are exposed to things like tobacco, pesticides food additives, cosmetic and hygiene products, cleaning products, environmental pollution and even negative thoughts.
We benefit from a cleanse physiologically, aesthetically and spiritually.
Physiological Benefits:
Neutralize and remove toxins from …

An Australian company that created a database analyzing foods for allergens and additives has landed in the US, offering American consumers an online tool for comparing thousands of manufactured foods.
Food and beverage companies have increasingly been removing certain ingredients from their products as a result of perceived consumer demand, including synthetic colorings or high fructose corn syrup, and others are reformulating to remove potential allergens such as gluten.
FoodEssentials.com is a searchable database which allows consumers to compare foods from different manufacturers according to which ingredients or nutrients they wish to …

Carbonated water
Ingredient-wise, this is cola’s get-out-of-jail-free card. Carbonated water—water injected with carbon dioxide gas—has received a bad rap over the years, but current studies suggest there’s little wrong with it. The idea that the phosphorus (the “fizz”) in bubbly water drains calcium from bones was shown to be untrue in a 2001 study by the Creighton University Osteoporosis Research Center in Nebraska. So if you give up the soda and stick to the soda water, you’ll be in good shape.
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
For the uninitiated, HFCS is corn syrup …

Healthy Eating: Top Ten Food Additives to Avoid
1. Propyl Gallate:
This preservative, used to prevent fats and oils from spoiling, might cause cancer. It is used in vegetable oil, meat products, potato sticks, chicken soup base and chewing gum and is often used with BHA and BHT (see below)
2. BHA and BHT:
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) are used similarly to proplyl gallate – to keep fats and oils from going rancid. Used commonly in cereals, chewing gum, vegetable oil and potato chips (and also in some food packaging to …

Food: Anything eaten to satisfy appetite and to meet physiology needs for growth, to maintain all body processes, and to supply energy to maintain body temperature and activity. Because foods differ markedly in the amount of the nutrients they contain, they are classified on the basis of their composition and the source from which they are derived.
Food Additives: Natural and synthetic compounds added to food to supply nutrients, to enhance color, flavor, or texture, and to prevent or delay spoilage. Since ancient times table salt has been a preservative for …

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is a food additive that was discovered in 1908 by Dr. Kikunae Ikeda, a chemist at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Shortly after he isolated MSG, he joined his friend, Dr. Saburosuke Suzuki and formed Ajinomoto, the famous company that started the MSG craze. A few years later, millions of Japanese started to used this food enhancer. After World War 2, MSG also became very popular in the United States and many western countries. Today MSG is added to a wide variety of food, such as soups, …

WHEN buying food these days, some Chinese consumers are nervous at the mere mention of food additives.
Their concern is understandable given numerous incidents, from KFC’s Sudan I (carcinogenic food coloring)-tainted food in 2005 to the Sanlu Group’s melamine-contaminated infant milk powder and milk products (causing kidney stones) last year.
Caution is required, but extreme aversion is unnecessary. Consumers should inform themselves about additives, not eat too much of any one kind, eat a varied diet and go for fresh unprocessed food whenever possible. Some additives, of course, are necessary as preservatives …

SPRINGDALE – Jon “Jed” Dreisker, vice president and general manager of Dancing Bear Ingredients in Bartlesville, Okla., showed off dehydrated mushrooms from J-M Farms of Miami, Okla., a product and firm he is representing to food processors.
Dreisker’s company is an industrial food ingredient broker serving food processors and manufacturers in the south-central part of the country.
He was among more than 70 exhibitors Wednesday at the 103rd Annual Convention of the Ozark Food Processors Association at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Springdale.
Companies Dreisker sells from are those that make ingredients …

Most home winemakers have experienced refermentation of off-dry wines after bottling.  This can be very annoying, as it can cause corks to blow out; also, the resultant fizzy wines are yeasty and not always to one’s taste.  Uncorking the wine and letting it continue its ferment to dryness in a carboy is an unnecessary waste of time, so the usual way of preventing bottle refermentation from happening is to introduce potassium sorbate (sorbate) before bottling.  Understand that sorbate does not kill the yeast; it merely inhibits renewed yeast activity under …