An Organic Oily Oasis in a Trans-Fat Jungle–Red Palm Oil Arrives
We love children, at least those who aren’t our own. And we especially love those who follow their parent’s passion for creating change. Add Ted Robb to a list that includes Nell Newman and two soapy generations of the Bronner family. Ted, son of Whole Foods bigwig Walter Robb (who opened his own store, with […]
Amy’s Organic Heads to The Office Testing Frozen Vending Machines
As noted in Vending Market Watch, natural and organic frozen foods leader Amy’s Kitchen recent purchased seven frozen food vending machines, which the company is testing if a variety of outlets, including offices, hospitals and a police station. The machines are stocked with a range of Amy’s products currently available in stores, including breakfast entrees, […]
Starbucks Celebrates Fair Trade Month With Neat Advertisements, But Not Much More
Starbucks latest in store promotions and advertisements feature the company’s work with local growers, noting how Starbucks makes lives better in small coffee growing villages around the world. If you believe that, you probably also believe those Wal-Mart commercials that claim how the retail Godzilla supports the communities it has stores in. Well don’t get […]
Look Mom, No Spoons Sandwich Heaven …Or Maybe Hell
If you’ve gotten carpal tunnel from making too many peanut butter & jelly sandwiches the folks at PB Slices in Guthrie, Oklahoma have got the product for you. While NBN is allergic to peanut butter, we once loved the easy, flat, fold ’em up goodness of Kraft American singles. Back then, though, we didn’t care if our […]
Americans Crave More Food While Watching TV
I Lost the Remote and Now I’m Starving. According to a recent study by Allrecipes.com Americans get their biggest food cravings watching TV. The second most likely pace to get food cravings is at work. Given that we’re often bored staring at the boob tube (excluding Law & Order, of course) and pretending to be […]
Something’s Rotten in The FDA AS Regulators Loving The Regulated
FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford announced his resignation on Friday. Crawford, a long-time FDA deputy, served as acting Commissioner for three years before Senate hearings confirmed his appointment just two months ago. His announcement on a day that media coverage focused on Hurricane Rita was interpreted as an attempt to minimize news coverage on the ever […]
Chromium Gets FDA Approval—Health Claim for Diabetes Approved
In case you think chromium is just for the fenders on cars built before 1980, think again. A recent FDA ruling allowing qualified health claims for chromium picolinate might mean you’ll see cereal boxes touting ‘added chromium.’ As the supplement savvy NBN readers know, chromium, in the form of chromium picolinate, has been shown to […]
Wal-Mart Canada Makes Us Blush—Retailer Begins Selling Sex Toys
While this has very little to do with our normal range of stories, well, we just couldn’t resist passing this on. According to a story in Canada’s newspaper, The Globe & Mail, Wal-Mart Canada will begin selling sex toys, or what the retailer euphemistically refers to as ‘sexually well being products’. As noted in the […]
Trinity Launches….Err…Organic…Um… Water
Okay we like the folks at Trinity Water. We really do. But the news that the company has launched a new line of organic flavored waters leaves us wondering if someone spent too much time in the spring and had their common sense soaked out of them. Its organic flavored water, but come on folks, […]
Senate Proposes Changes on Organic Rules
Is It Like Putting the Fox in Charge of Guarding The Henhouse More and more granola minded soccer moms are buying organic nut butters, gallons of Odwalla juices and Amy’s Organic frozen dinners at big box stores. No surprise here. In San Francisco, I know lots of folks who load up their Volvos at Whole […]
