Coffee has had a strange reputation over the years. At various points it has been blamed for heart disease, stunted growth, and general jitters, then later praised for helping people live longer. Both stories contain some truth, which is why people still ask the same practical question: how much is actually fine? For most healthy…
The refrigerated aisle now has more non-dairy milks than most people can sort through. Four dominate the shelf: soy, oat, almond, and pea. They look alike in a glass and are often marketed with similar wellness language, yet nutritionally they are quite different. The short answer is that fortified, unsweetened soy and pea milks come…
Walk down the tea aisle and you will find hundreds of boxes, but nearly all of them fall into three groups: green tea, black tea, and herbal tea. They look similar in a mug, yet they are not interchangeable. Two of the three come from the same plant. One is not tea at all, in…
