This week's roundup of green & healthy news and information from around the web is all on the subject of food...
Gina at the Feed Our Families blog wrote about food dyes in a couple of posts this week. She discusses the negative health effects of food dyes, gives some examples from Robin O'Brien's book The Unhealthy Truth and provides some tips for avoiding artificial colors in children's snacks and drinks.
Speaking of children's snacks - have you heard of Funky Monkey? It's a dehydrated fruit snack that crunches! We were sent some free samples to try and they are really good. No artificial colors or flavors - just 100% fruit with some natural flavors like cinnamon or lime. The Jivealime (pineapple with lime) is my favorite!
News of fake blueberries in cereal and baked goods has been spreading around the web like wildfire. Apparently blueberry-like "crunchlets", made using dyes, oils and gums are a cheap stand-in for the real fruit. Surprised? I'm not. Upon reading about this I immediately checked my box of Kashi cereal with blueberry clusters. I'm happy to report that it DOES contain real blueberries although they are clearly mashed and mixed with oats to make the clusters - there are no whole blueberries to be found!
Would you like your child to grow up to be a foodie? Get your kids up to speed on important food words like locovore, quinoa and dragon fruit with this adorable board book, My Foodie ABC. I'm getting a stash of these to save for gifts!
Finally, It's hard not to feel jealous when I watch video clips from the Lunch Love Community - a project documenting the Berkeley School Lunch Initiative. I wish my kids could eat like this at school!
Also - don't miss their flamin' hot Cheeto video - you'll never want to eat a Cheeto again!
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You can see 2 other great videos at www.feingold.org This is the website of the Feingold Assoc., the support group for those using the Feingold diet.
Posted by: Marcia | February 04, 2011 at 02:21 PM
Such great information! Thanks for sharing.
I am co-hosting a Green Mama Blog Hop today and would be honored if you would stop by and join in.
Posted by: Abbie | February 09, 2011 at 11:01 AM
How would I do that? Tell me about it.
Posted by: Marcia | February 09, 2011 at 03:26 PM
You can stop by my blog, www.greeningsamandavery.typepad.com , and check out the Green Mama Blog Hop post. All the instructions about how to join are there. We got a pretty good crowd today and it would really be great to have you join in!
Thanks!!
Posted by: Abbie | February 09, 2011 at 03:40 PM
After reading this I immediately checked my box of Kashi cereal with blueberry clusters. I am pleased to tell you that it contains real blueberries but they are well mashed and mixed with oat clusters.
Posted by: ייעוץ זוגי | October 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM