Food Facts

You know I’m a big fan of seeds. My book The Need for Seeds: How to make Seeds an Everyday Food in your Healthy Diet was published three years ago …
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Over the past year, I’ve been getting more questions about the organic marketplace and target market for it, both in Canada and the USA. As part of my business, we …
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Konjac is an herb with a tuber-like corm (underground plant stem). It’s also known as elephant yam, devil’s tongue, snake palm, and voodoo lily. Overall, konjac is highly versatile in …
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Mung beans are showing up on ingredient lists of plant-based foods including the Beyond Burger. I wasn’t familiar with them, and thought what the heck are mung beans? So my …
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The appeal of plant-based eating has expanded over the past year, including a much larger market of consumers who are opting for flexitarian diet pattern (choosing more plant-based meal options …
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There’s an increase in healthier puffed and crunchy snacks on the market. Traditional popped corn is getting competition from popped chickpeas, sorghum, quinoa and wait, lotus seeds. What the heck …
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