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Carrots are cool
Name a snack food that’s neon orange and makes a loud crunch. If you picked Cheetos, the USA’s biggest producer of baby carrots wants you to think again. Bolthouse Farms and 50 other carrot growers...
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A moveable feast
Fresh Moves Mobile Market have thought up a way to bring fresh produce to the parts of Chicago that lack them. Sparing the expense of the usual bricks and mortar grocery, Fresh Moves have repurposed a...
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Health hotel
The InterContinental Hotels Group has launched EVEN, a new brand of hotels for guests seeking a healthier stay. Each room is designed for working out, with details like a luggage rack that doubles as a...
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Tiny vending
A tiny vending machine, designed to dispense healthy snacks for toddlers, has been launched by food brand Ella’s Kitchen. Standing 115 cm tall, with ‘bespoke features’ to help little hands access their...
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Fat-blocking cola
PepsiCo has unveiled a new cola which, according to their technologists, reduces the absorption of fat in the body and helps to cut cholesterol levels. (Amazing, Tim!) The fat-blocking Pepsi Special,...
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New year, new you
If you’re worried about looking a little porky after your Christmas binge then stress no longer – we have a solution. These Japanese beauty gadgets promise to tone your face and give you a nicer...
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Squeezable snacks
Which snacks do you grab when you’re on the go? A banana, maybe? Some crisps? How about puréed fruit or vegetables? Currently, baby food brands including Happy Family, Buddy Fruits and GoGo squeeZ are...
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WAT-AAH!
How do you encourage kids to ditch unhealthy fizzy drinks and drink more water? Rose Cameron asked herself this question and ‘Wat-aah!’ was born. After chatting to her kids about their drink...
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Real mannequins
The Swedish store Athlens has decided to break from the status quo and start using mannequins that actually represent normal women. Size 14 is what can be called normal, with most females falling...
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Food tripping
You’ve been ‘good’ all week. Soups, salads and only one sneaky chocolate. Now it’s the weekend and you’re off on a road trip. When hunger hits, you don’t have many options apart from refuelling on...
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DIY Muesli
Oats or flakes? Raisins or goji berries? Banana chips or chocolate chunks? Yoosli is a new online cereal mixing service that lets you create your very own muesli masterpiece, with everything just the...
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Healthy Corner Store
Going to the corner shop for sweets is a special treat for most children. But in Philadelphia, the poorest and most obese city in the US, researchers found that half the kids in low-income...
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Alpha snacks
Sadly for modern men, going out to harpoon a wild animal isn’t really an everyday dinner option. But for wannabe hunter gatherers, a new trend for ‘manly’ junk food means meaty snacks are only a...
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Sleep like a baby
New parent? Put the walkie-talkie baby monitor back in the box. What you need is Owlet, the new baby-monitoring device that sends updates to your phone throughout the night. The device comes in the...
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Fat lad at the back #LeTour #Cycling
Le Tour de France. Probably the world’s most gruelling cycling challenge. Over 2,000 miles of pain. Whether or not you understand the intricacies of the race, it’s easy to grasp that the yellow...
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The work out that works out
Gym memberships. Always a tricky subject for the family finance department. The good intentions are there, but as the months tick by you slowly find yourself paying upwards of fifty quid for a solitary...
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An inch of your five-a-day
A splash of orange juice, a dash of water, a squeeze of lime, a drop of desperation. Any copywriter who’s ever tried to list ingredients will know there are only so many words to describe quantity. (No...
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What are you drinking?
It’s the smoothie with shockingly high levels of sugar. The beer with the stumble-inducing alcohol content. The ‘healthy’ water that’s worse for you than a pint of cream. We might not always know what...
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Talk dirty. Eat healthy.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar7g_26QWu0 In the professional kitchen, it’s generally accepted that a few flying expletives really help a dish come together. In a cookbook however, it’s a...
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Beer pump
We’ve all been there. Half an hour of weights, followed by 20 minutes on the bike, followed by 10 minutes in the bar. All the benefits of your workout effectively neutralised by the failure to resist...
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