What do bread, wine, cheese, chocolate, coffee, soy sauce, yogurt and beer have in common?

They're all fermented... and healthy.

 

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The Supermarket Guru shares the latest tips, trends and news flashes in the world of food and food safety. Learn how Coke and Pepsi are making their beverage offerings healthier; discover what to look for on a food label; hear the latest gossip on Godiva chocolate...and more.

By now you've heard the good news that dark chocolate can save everything from your heart to your mind with a single 1.6 oz. serving per day. But before you go replacing your veggies with Hershey's, make sure you know what you're looking for! Rule #1: the higher the percentage of cacao, the better the chocolate will be for you. Chocolate packs in a lot of calories, and can be extremely high in cholesterol, especially in its milk- and white- varieties. But cacao contains artery-clearing flavanoids, and age-fighting antioxidants.

Want to sneak the healthy ingredients into kids' favorite meals without a fight? The Sneaky Chef shows us how to sneak nutrient dense ingredients into kids favorite foods. Learn how to make healthy chocolate chip pancakes and more. Recipe included!

Hemp milk, spiked chocolates and vacuum-dried veggies are just some of the highlights from the Natural Products Expo West 2007. Here's a peek at what might be headed to a grocery aisle near you.

Looking to add something new to your repertoire? We've got the perfect recipes to woo a new love, mend a broken heart, treat yourself, keep the flame alive & fill your family with love. So this Valentine's Day, dare to try something new. Make a romantic brunch for one! Fill your diet with natural aphrodisiacs like bananas, chocolate, honey, peaches, oats, onions, carrots, celery, and alcohol (in moderation, too much has the opposite effect). Rev your libido and mix it up this V-day, with some healthy comfort foods and great new natural products. After all, variety is the spice of life!

Good news, chocoholics: There's even more evidence that a couple of chocolates a day can prevent heart attacks.

It's Halloween and you have three choices when the legions of devils, witches, Harry Potters and Darth Vaders ring your doorbell. One: You can shout, "Bah humbug!" out the window and deliver your speech on the evils of refined sugar and capitalist holidays. Two: You can cave in and buy big packages of artificially flavored and colored transfat bombs. Or three: You can find some healthy, pre-packaged alternatives you'll feel great about offering to pint-size ghoulies.

Yum, chocolate: is there any substance more synonymous with willful self-indulgence? Yet recent studies have shown it has health effects – and thanks to John and Kira Doyle, now it also has positive social ramifications.

John & Kira's is a Pennsylvania-based company that manufatures high-end chocolates. But instead of a fussily-decorated cardboard, these arrive in a simple pine box adorned with the loveliest of bows, stamped and sealed with wax. Inside lie not the usual drunken cherries or buttercremes, but fresh and fascinating concoctions of lavender, ginger, fresh mint, lemongrass, bergamot… the list is long and eyebrow-raising. The taste isn't traditional, but surprising and fresh.