Okinawan sweet potatoes are the holy grail of sweet potatoes on my almost impossible list of favorite but hard to find items. When baked, the rough and dirty white exterior of a good one can hide deeper purple flesh with a sweet, floral fragrance, elegant beyond any mere flower. For a while, it was almost … Read more
Increased sales of the natural and organic products segment are forecast for 2021 + 6.6% to $ 271 billion and expected to exceed $ 300 billion by 2023, Outperforming Total Food and Beverage Growth, According to New Hope. Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA, Priscilla Zee, director of General Mills’ organic and natural products portfolio business unit that … Read more
Kale is a surprise on the 2019 ‘Dirty Dozen’ listWebMD .
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Switch with organic kale because tapas the 2019 “Dirty Dozen” list of products with the highest amount of pesticides? You may want to reconsider. It turns out that the “d“Dirty” foods are fairly clean, and organic foods are not pesticide-free anyway. The US Department of Agriculture, which conducted the actual testing of pesticides on product … Read more
How much do organic products really cost?ConsumerReports.org .
Organic farming is believed to play a crucial role in moving towards a more sustainable food system. According to the European Commission, organic farming provides higher income for farmers and benefits smaller family farms. Organic farms are also perceived as more resilient and are known to foster greater biodiversity. Additionally, their animals enjoy higher animal … Read more
Organic fresh produce sales in 2020 were approximately $ 8.5 billion, an increase of more than $ 1 billion from 2019, and accounted for 12% of all fresh produce sales, according to Nielsen scan data provided in the Organic Produce Network Report. In comparison, sales of conventional products increased 10.7% during the year. Like many … Read more
Organic products now account for 1.5% of all food bought in the UK, which is equivalent to £ 45 million spent by consumers per week, and is expected to rise to £ 2.5 billion by 2020 . Commenting on the report, Soil Association’s director of business development Clare McDermott said the organic sector was in … Read more
When asked if their intake of fruits and vegetables matched the recommended amount in the dietary guide, 43 percent of Canadians reached the goal several times a week and less than a third (29 percent) did it all days.Fred Lum / The Balloon and the Mail If you’re like most Canadians, you don’t eat enough … Read more
As part of the Green Deal Farm-to-Table strategy, the European Commission has committed to a target of at least 25% organic farmland by 2030. Starting from a current starting point of just 8.5%, the Commission has a lot of work ahead of it. “We do not argue that it is a difficult goal”, Said Diego … Read more
Within organic products, food and beverage sales increased 12.8% in 2020 to $ 56.4 billion, almost three times the growth of 4.6% to $ 50 billion in 2019 and the highest since 2008, OTA found in its 2021 Organic Industry Survey of nearly 200 companies conducted by the Nutrition Business Journal and published today. The … Read more
Despite the pandemic, and in some way because of the pandemic, [2020 was an] amazing year for us … with total industry sales growing 12.7% to $ 256 billion ”,Carlotta Mast, Senior Vice President and Market Leader for New Hope, said yesterday at the Natural Products Expo East in Philadelphia. He explained to in-person and … Read more