by admin | Jan 24, 2021 | Nutrition & Recipes
Eat Your Winter Greens If you want to liven up your salads, get wild about winter greens! Here’s a list of cold-weather hardy greens that are packed with nutrition, flavor, and color: Belgian Endive. Add kick to your salad with chopped-up endive leaves....
by admin | Jan 5, 2021 | Nutrition & Recipes
Walnuts, The Ultimate Brain Food There are good reasons to go wild for walnuts. They are rich in Omega-3-fatty acids and high in antioxidants. This powerful combination helps support immunity, the management of inflammation in the body, and provides nourishment...
by admin | Dec 16, 2020 | Nutrition & Recipes
Persimmon, A Nutritious And Fruity Gem Persimmon is an Asian specialty or “rare” fruit, available in several varieties, classified broadly by sweetness or astringency. Two of the most common are Fuyu and Hachiya. Persimmons are packed with antioxidants...
by admin | Dec 9, 2020 | Nutrition & Recipes
The Calming Power of Passionflower For centuries, the unusual looking violet and white passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) has been used as a calming botanical treatment. Its use dates back to the Aztecs in Central America who used parts of the vine to treat...
by admin | Nov 24, 2020 | Nutrition & Recipes
Superior Health Benefits There are blueberries that you buy at the market or grow in your yard and then there are wild blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium). Truly wild blueberries are grown in glacial soil in northern New England and along the Atlantic Coast of...
by admin | Nov 20, 2020 | Nutrition & Recipes
Milk Thistle, A Natural Detoxifier For over 2,0000 years, Milk thistle (Silybum marianum) has been used as an herbal remedy for digestive, liver, kidney, and gallbladder conditions. The active ingredient in milk thistle is silymarin, which can be extracted from the...
