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The Green Light Is On Kool-Aid

The popular drink known as Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins and his wife Kitty in Hastings, Nebraska, in the United States of America. Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate which was called Fruit Smack. In an attempt to reduce shipping costs, in 1927, Perkins discovered a way to remove the liquid from Fruit Smack, [...]

800 Year Old Apple The Healthiest

It’s called the Pendragon apple, and it’s been grown in England since the 12th century. “Of all the organic varieties, Pendragon was the best apple variety and contained seven of the eight kinds of healthy components at the highest levels,” said pharmacist Michael Wakeman, who, like most of the people quoted on the internet, does [...]

Eliminating the The Supermarket – The Agriculture Middleman

What happens if you eliminate the food middleman? Answer: you’d go straight to the farm. Leave it to modern culture come up with an acronym for this sort of thing to make it sound more official and sophisticated than it actually is. They call it “CSA” for Community-Supported Agriculture. For those who don’t like the [...]

Sour to Sweet

Here’s a fruit that will turn sour to sweet. It’s called, appropriately I might add, miracle fruit. The fruit itself, a simple berry, is nothing special. But chew it up and let it sit on your tongue a bit, and for the next 30 minutes or so, everything will taste sweet. No one is sure [...]