June 29, 2010

• 100% Fruit: A Guide to Buying Better Jam, Juice, and Popsicles

  With so much mass produced food lining the shelves of our supermarkets today, it is often unclear what our food is actually made from. Sneaky advertising and packaging makes it even harder to decipher our food contents and make healthy choices for our families. Products made of 100% fruits can be a great treat if [...]

May 12, 2010

• Is it Worth the Extra Buck to Go Whole-wheat?

  Lots of products are advertised as whole wheat. Are they really that much healthier? Is it worth it to spend more money to buy pricey whole grain pastas, breads, crackers, etc? Let’s break it down slowly. Whole wheat flour is flour made by grinding and mashing whole grains of wheat. White flour, or bleached four, [...]

February 4, 2010

• Sugar Substitutes: A Comparison

  We all know that sugar is bad for you. But some of the sugar substitutes on the market are tasteless and don’t really work. So what can you use to replace sugar to help you cut it out of your diet so that you can lose weight?

  Splenda – This is the obvious choice. It [...]

July 7, 2009

• Why Brown Rice Syrup May Be the Best Sweetener For Your Health

  We now know that on of the ways to start eating healthy and lose weight is to limit the amount of sucrose in the diet, as many sucrose-based products are highly refined and are best used in moderation.  Enter Brown Rice syrup.  Brown rice syrup (BRS) (and barley malt for that matter) is composed of [...]

June 10, 2009

• Splenda Not So Splendid?

  All the rage in the diet and low-carb worlds, Splenda is the brand name for sucralose, a sugar derivative, which is made through a process that converts natural sugar cane to a no-calorie, non-carb sweetener.  And it is doing a great job of kicking aspartame (NutraSweet) and Saccharin (Sweet N Low) to the curb in [...]

• Glenny’s Yummy Low-cal Soy Crisps

  Soy.  Just the name seems to turn off so many people, making folks think of flavorless tofu or crunchy hippies and their often tasteless meals (no offense to you crunchies out there!).  I was one once of those.  But I changed.
  My Glenny Soy Crisp story began when I came upon these in a neighborhood store, [...]