by Dan-N on November 24, 2009
With Thanksgiving just 2 days away, now is the time that most people start to realize that Turkey’s take way too long to cook! How long do you cook a turkey for? How do you know if it is done? How bad can a touch of Salmonella be anyway? Fear not, calm and never sleepy Karen is here to help you…
Ask Karen – Your 24/7 Friend for All Your Food Questions
Sure we pay a lot in taxes, but it is those tax dollars that allow the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to create a virtual assistant who is available to answer any of your food safety related questions 24 hours a day. Her name is Karen and she even gets her own web site -
AskKaren.Gov
Go ahead and try her out.
Don’t Order Yet – The Government Has More to Offer for Holiday Fun…
If asking holiday questions to a robot is not your thing, don’t worry – the government has you covered. Just take a look at -
Holiday Food Safety
In a surprising well done format, the government has laid out everything you need to know to make sure your holiday celebration does not turn into ground zero for the next plague.
Now if you’ll excuse us we need to go start cooking our Turkey – yikes – less than 48 hours until T-day!
Happy Thanksgiving to All!
by Dan-N on November 23, 2009
Quick post today – just wanted to answer a question we have been getting a lot since we started talking about muscadine grapes. A lot of readers have asked what we thought of using muscadine jelly to receive the health benefits of the muscadines .
We do think that getting more muscadines into your diet is always a good thing, so sure – using muscadine grape jelly in place of regular grape jelly is a fine idea. The only problem is that muscadine jam, muscadine jelly or muscadine wine does NOT use the muscadine seed. This is very significant from a health benefits standpoint since the muscadine seed contains many of the nutrients that make muscadines so healthy.
Why is the Muscadine Seed So Important?
Muscadine seeds contain resveratrol, fiber and other phytonutrients that are NOT found in large quantities in the muscadine skin or pulp. If you take a look at any recipe for muscadine jelly, you will see that they for the seeds to be removed and only the skin and pulp of the muscadines is used.
So Muscadine Jelly Will Not Make Me Superhuman?
Sorry, no. But we don’t want to sell muscadine jelly too short – it still has things like ellagic acid and other key nutrients that are found in the muscadine pulp. If you want to get the full health benefits of the muscadine grape, we recommend you use a quality muscadine supplement that uses the whole grape – skin, seed and pulp.
by Dan-N on November 20, 2009
Arizona (AZ) is quickly becoming our favorite state. In June we reported how the Arizona Attorney General had reaches a settlement with the makers of Acai Pure for their deceptive “free trial” scams. Now Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is making it clear that Acai Scammers are not welcomed in his state!
“An Arizona company pushes “free trials” of acai berry products online and then repeatedly bills customers for stuff they didn’t order and don’t want, the Arizona Attorney General says. The attorney general says Nature’s Acai Berry hides its scam in “faded print” that mentions a bill of $85.91 and a monthly “membership” fee of $29.95.”
-Court House News Service – 11/20/09
But What About that 14 Day Free Trial They State on the Site?
“Nature’s Acai Berry offers a “14-day risk-free” trial offer, allegedly for $1.99 plus shipping and handling, the state says in Maricopa County Court.
But the order button on its Web site conceals a “faded print stating that the ‘14-day trial offer’ began on the date of the order, and that unless the consumer canceled before 14 days passed by calling a toll free customer service number, that the consumer would be charged $85.91 … and would receive a new shipment … 30 days after their trial order date,” Attorney General Terry Goddard in says.”
-Court House News Service – 11/20/09
So I Just Need to Cancel in 14 Days – Right???
But the state says that many people who order the “14-day risk-free trial offer” do not get anything within two weeks, and when they try to cancel by calling customer service they face “excessive hold times, disconnections, and customer service reps who say their cancellations cannot be processed because “‘the computers were down.’”
Customers who were led to believe they had canceled found their credit cards were billed anyway, Goddard says.
-Court House News Service – 11/20/09
How Do These Acai Scammers Sleep At Night?
I have no idea. Even with all the recent legal action taken acai scam companies, it is amazing that they continue to try to pull all their dirty tricks. Well, let’s look at the positive and applaud the Arizona Attorney General for doing the right thing and protecting the rights of their citizens – they are seeking refunds and an injunction.
Additional Resources:
Oprah and Illinois Attorney General File Suit Against Acai Scam Companies
How I Lost $90 in 30 Days Using the Acai Berry
What Did Oprah and Dr Oz Really Say About Acai
Acai Berry Scams – How to Avoid Them
Acai Berry Maxx named Texas Lawsuit
Free Black Belt Course in Spotting Acai Berry Scams
Information on Supplements
by Dan-N on November 19, 2009
We sure like to put the word “super” in front of anything in this industry. Superfoods, SuperFruits, SuperSize …whoops – that one is for the fast food industry! Around this time of year you hear a lot of talk about what will be the top SuperFood of 2010. Of course, that question would be easier to answer if we could all agree on a definition for superfoods.
What is a SuperFood Anyway?
Here is how Wikipedia defines a SuperFood -
Superfood is a term sometimes used to describe food with high phytonutrient content that may confer health benefits as a result.
That clears it all up, right? No, such a broad definition of SuperFood would make almost any fruit, by definition a SuperFood. When every fruit can fall into a definition, that definition loses any significance. If every fruit is a superfood or superfruit, what makes one fruit more super than the next???
How Does the FDA Define SuperFoods and SuperFruits
They don’t! It is important to understand that there is no legal definition of SuperFoods or SuperFruits. There is no science to apply to a food and determine if it is a super food. As far as the FDA is concerned, all this talk about Superfoods is just marketing.
What About Acai, Muscadines, Resveratrol, Noni, etc. – I thought they were SuperFoods?
We do believe that Muscadine Grapes, Acai Berries and Resveratrol all have super nutritional profiles and some impressive health benefits. So, it seems fair to call these elite fruits SuperFoods – and almost everyone does. However, if you twist our arm and ask us what scientific formula we use to determine if a food makes it to SuperFood status – we have a one word answer – Oprah!
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