Tag: Chocolate

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  This Chocolate Beet Cake is Delicious

  From the Mystery Ingredient files, nobody would ever guess that this lip-smacking cake includes a healthy dose of root vegetables.

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  Fair Trade Chocolate, Tea, Spice and Coffee Sales Jump 75 Percent, Study Says

  Chocolate, tea and more goodies partner with Fair Trade USA which expands farming programs and experiences record sales.

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  America's Best Organics Delivers Organic, Local Gift Baskets for Easter, Birthdays, and More

  Filled with organic, gluten-free, and vegan goods from candy to candles and soaps to nuts, these care packages offer a healthy gift option.

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  Vegan No-Bake Chocolate Coconut Macaroons are Easy Buttery Treat

  These chocolatey pillows are little powerhouses of energy but are more blissful than a bland protein bar; coco-nutty, butter-y, with a strong cocoa kick in the pants.

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  10 Fairtrade, Organic, and Vegan Sources For Easter Chocolate

  Buying ethically produced chocolate bunnies, bars, and eggs for Easter is a lot more difficult than you'd think. Choose from these companies for a guilt-free Easter basket.

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  Halloween Costumes, Candy, and Decor Less Scary for the Earth (Slideshow)

  When it comes to Halloween costumes, a little creativity can go a long way: Search your closet, your grandmother's attic, and your local thrift store, and you're almost guaranteed to find clothes and gear that you can

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  Halloween Costumes, Candy, and Decor Less Scary for the Earth

  When it comes to Halloween costumes, a little creativity can go a long way: Search your closet, your grandmother's attic, and your local thrift store, and you're almost guaranteed to find clothes and gear that you can turn into a low-cost, reuse-friendly

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  Planet Getting Too Hot for Chocolate? Study Finds Climate Change Could Threaten Cocoa Farmers

  The world's cocoa supply could be in danger from climate change, according to a new study from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), which says that prices are likely to skyrocket if preventative

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  A Healthier (& Cheaper) Way to Celebrate National Junk Food Day

  Today is National Junk Food Day and that comes with a lot of negative connotations. Junk food is associated with childhood obesity and is a well-known provider of empty calories. However, a healthy lifestyle

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  Cicada Ice Cream? A Big Buzz That Was Short Lived

  When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you cicadas, make ice cream? It may not make sense to many of us, but that is what the owners of Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream in Colombia, Missouri did. Cicadas are

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  Natural Nitrogen Ice Cream Tastes Good

  Welcome to the chin chin laboratorists, Europe's only nitro ice-cream parlour. On first glance it looks like a mad scientist's lab, with figures in white coats at work and clouds of white gas appearing out of nowhere. They are using

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  Functional Chocolates for Basket Cases

  With Easter comes egg hunts, peeps and chocolate bunnies. It's a sugar fest. So how can we indulge in bonbons and reap some health benefits? Studies show that cocoa

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  Is Chocolate the Tastiest Natural Cough Medicine of All?

  As if we needed another excuse to have some chocolate, new research shows that it may be an effective cough suppressant, too.New Scientist

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  Brand Jamming Contest to Demand Hershey's End Child Labor, Human Rights Abuses

  There's been a lot of attention paid to fair trade chocolate and to the underlying child and forced labor issues involved in chocolate production. But one of the slowest companies to act on these issues is Hershey's

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  Stunning Food Magnification Photos Reveal Your Meal in Microscopic Detail (Slideshow)

  She uses scientific equipment to magnify and capture the

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  Stunning Food Magnification Photos Reveal Your Meal in Microscopic Detail

  Caren Alpert spent 18 years as a photo editor and food photographer before turning her artist's eye to the things we see every day but never look closely at: What we eat. She uses scientific equipment to magnify and capture the striking surfaces of ever

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  'Conscious Cocoa' Hot Chocolate Recipe

  Lowering the thermostat is a good, green thing. And I mentioned last week, it could surprisingly help you lose weight. Those of us in cold climes less in for the weight loss and more in for a cooler planet, are trying to keep the

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  Fast Food Advertising is On the Rise -- With a Focus on Minority Youth -- While Kids Continue to Grow Fatter. What's Wrong With This Picture?

  It's definitely not news that America's children have an obesity problem and that it's largely due to fast food and junk/snack foods—nor is it a surprise that fast food restaurants use aggressive and