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 A product has to taste good at the same time that it delivers nutrition?
Lovejoy: Exactly.
Mike: That's a very difficult balance to achieve. You've done it here without refined sugars and without chemical sweeteners of any kind. In fact, there are no sweetener ingredients at all in this product?
Lovejoy: That's right.
Mike: Yet, I just tasted it and it tastes fantastic. What's your secret?
Lovejoy: Well, my secret is very guarded. Actually, it tastes like spearmint and it has a green tea taste to it, although green tea is not a predominant ingredient of the product. |
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 Thomas Robinson, the director of the Center for Healthy Weight at Packard Children's Hospital, reveals that children prefer the taste of foods wrapped with the McDonald's logo over the taste of the very same foods wrapped in plain paper. Apparently, the McDonald's logo is perceived by the brain as an indicator of tastier food, and the children actually project that expectation onto the foods during their taste experience. Their brain actually believes the food tastes better! (Remember, the taste experience happens in your head, not on your tongue... |
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| It has that spearmint green tea taste and it's really because of the spices and herbs that are wonderful for our bodies.
Mike: Let's talk about the ingredients that you have in this product. First, we have the greens group. There's barley grass, spirulina and some other green-oriented plant sources in here.
Lovejoy: Right.
Mike: There's not a "greeny" type of taste. It doesn't taste like wheat grass juice or even close to it.
Lovejoy: That's right.
Mike: How do you do that?
Lovejoy: Well, you put the right amount of herbs in it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And get this: we can actually taste it because we haven't blown away our taste sensation with extreme nachos, MSG, aspartame, sugars and soft drinks. Health food tastes wonderful: it's the junk food that's an offensive taste assault. (Of course, if you're used to eating junk foods or processed foods, you can really only taste three things: salt, sugar and fat. And health foods don't have much of those, which is why junk food eaters think healthy foods taste like cardboard. |
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 It's interesting that we do have Japanese customers, when they come by, from the very beginning they love the taste and the smell of the spirulina. They're much more into eating seafoods and sea vegetables. But you're absolutely right -- spirulina put into any kind of a shake or a smoothie definitely turns it very vividly green-blue. In a shake or smoothie the taste can certainly be masked with other things like apple juice or pineapple juice, so it doesn't taste bad at all. But as you take spirulina, you do develop a taste for it -- it's something that I've come to enjoy.
Mike: Indeed. |
| It certainly has what we call a mild sea-vegetable taste and smell. It's interesting that we do have Japanese customers, when they come by, from the very beginning they love the taste and the smell of the spirulina. They're much more into eating seafoods and sea vegetables. But you're absolutely right -- spirulina put into any kind of a shake or a smoothie definitely turns it very vividly green-blue. In a shake or smoothie the taste can certainly be masked with other things like apple juice or pineapple juice, so it doesn't taste bad at all. |
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| Thomas Robinson, the director of the Center for Healthy Weight at Packard Children's Hospital, reveals that children prefer the taste of foods wrapped with the McDonald's logo over the taste of the very same foods wrapped in plain paper. Apparently, the McDonald's logo is perceived by the brain as an indicator of tastier food, and the children actually project that expectation onto the foods during their taste experience. Their brain actually believes the food tastes better! (Remember, the taste experience happens in your head, not on your tongue... |
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 Essentially, dead meat products look and taste dead (because they are), so meat companies use the following three ingredients to make them look fresh and taste interesting:
Sodium nitrite makes the meat look red and fresh. (But it promotes cancer.)
MSG makes the meat taste savory. (But it causes neurological disorders.)
Processed salt makes the meat taste more interesting. (But it causes nutritional problems and high blood pressure. |
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 I'm living on foods that make all the processed, junk foods taste like dirt.
I'm not giving up anything by living a super-healthy lifestyle. In fact, I'm gaining in every area. The taste experience is more interesting and more expansive. The health benefits are phenomenal. The expanded awareness happens automatically. I'm not giving up anything at all! You might say, "Well, you're giving up a Big Mac, French fries, ice cream and pizza." So what? Once you've tried raw foods cuisine, everything else seems irrelevant. |
| Processed foods taste nothing like real food from nature. When foods are processed, cooked or put on a shelf in a grocery store, they're little more than a shadow of the original food.
If you think you've tried all kinds of foods before and you've never tried raw foods, you have no idea what you're missing. You're missing out on a whole universe of taste experience that goes beyond anything you've ever dreamed of. The first time you put raw foods cuisine in your mouth, you begin a whole new adventure. |
| You might also decide to pursue a raw foods diet because of the taste experience. Even if you don't care about health benefits, the taste experience is incredible. A raw foods diet is not about eating salads, carrots and celery sticks all day long. It's nothing of the kind. A raw foods diet is about making cuisine -- like smoothies and blended recipes -- that you have never experienced in your life.
These experiences go way beyond what cooked foods, processed foods or restaurant foods offer. |
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| Essentially, dead meat products look and taste dead (because they are), so meat companies use the following three ingredients to make them look fresh and taste interesting:
Sodium nitrite makes the meat look red and fresh. (But it promotes cancer.)
MSG makes the meat taste savory. (But it causes neurological disorders.)
Processed salt makes the meat taste more interesting. (But it causes nutritional problems and high blood pressure. |
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 That's why we now have "extreme nachos" loaded with MSG, a chemical taste enhancer that has harmful effects on the nervous system.
We see MSG in so many foods because people no longer have the sensory acuity to even notice tastes. They have to use these artificial chemicals to get peoples' tongues to register anything. And this is why we even see these chemicals used in natural food products. Check the ingredient labels on those foods, and you'll find autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolyzed vegetable protein and other additives. |
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 In either case, the liquids usually don't taste very good. Fresh aloe vera leaves taste neutral, but the processed aloe vera liquids I've tasted are terribly bitter. Aloe vera rapidly oxidizes when exposed to the air, and the liquids seem to possess a biting taste that simply isn't present in fresh aloe vera gel.
What's great about this new dried aloe vera gel from Good Cause Wellness (www.GoodCauseWellness.com) is that it's the best-tasting aloe vera gel I've tried yet. |
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 Raw Revolution bars, but that's because too many people are expecting these bars to taste like candy bars. They're not candy bars, they're real food bars. And they taste like real food, without all the artificial flavors, chemical taste enhancers and factory processing. To me, that's an exciting taste, but to the average American, it's just too boring. Hence the low rating on Amazon.com. But don't fall for it. If you're into health foods, I think you'll find these bars quite likable.
However, if you're expecting these to taste like Snickers bars, forget it. |
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 But now that the word is getting out about yeast extract, food companies are switching to yet another hidden form of a chemical taste enhancer.
This latest one is called "torula yeast" and instead of being a yeast extract, this is just a specific type of yeast. Again, it has the same purpose in food -- to make otherwise boring foods taste sensational. Torula yeast is now found in many snack products, even many so-called natural snacks. I've seen it in chips and a number of fried snack foods. |
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 This will make the drink have the texture and taste of ice cream, because when you're eating ice cream it's actually the fat combined with the sugars that makes it taste so good. By adding macadamia nut oil to a blended shake, you give it the taste and texture of a high fat ice cream shake without having to consume the saturated animal fats found in cows' milk and dairy products. In other words, it gives you all the taste experience of cream without the unhealthy consequences of cream.
Remember that fat tastes great, so you're missing out if you take healthy oils as nutritional supplements. |
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| In a shake or smoothie the taste can certainly be masked with other things like apple juice or pineapple juice, so it doesn't taste bad at all. But as you take spirulina, you do develop a taste for it -- it's something that I've come to enjoy.
Mike: Indeed. I second that -- over a period of months I came to enjoy it, and now if it's not in the smoothie, I miss it.
Gerry: I agree.
Mike: What about products on the shelf that contain Cyanotech's spirulina? What are some popular products that people can look for? |
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| Yeast extract was one of the first replacements for MSG -- it has the same effect on taste, and it contains a concentration of free glutamic acid, just like MSG. The difference is that it doesn't look as bad on the label, and food manufacturers can actually claim that it's all-natural. You'll see yeast extract in many products, even so-called natural products like veggie burgers. But now that the word is getting out about yeast extract, food companies are switching to yet another hidden form of a chemical taste enhancer. |
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| It's not normal; it's taste inflation. And it's a sensory assault basically created by food companies, personal care product companies, cosmetic companies, soft drink companies, restaurants and fast food chains, as well as other players in the food and consumer products markets.
So remember, if you want to boost your intelligence, or maintain the current intelligence that you have, give up these high-salt, high-sugar products. Give up all these artificial fragrances in your life. |
| There's hardly any other flavoring in the soup, since the physical matter in there has been so overcooked that it's just dead food with no taste subtlety remaining at all. These restaurants have to depend on salt and MSG to make these soups palatable to mainstream consumers. Personally, I can't touch a soup made by anything other than a gourmet restaurant, and canned soups found at the grocery store are also loaded with salt. Food manufacturers are adding so much salt to everything that millions of people are suffering from hypertension. |
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 Because it's a nutty taste, and it's crunchy but it's not too hard. It's not like chewing on stones or anything.
Ayerza: And it's very interesting. If you choose chia capsules, you will find the taste of the oil is like the chia seed – it's a good one. Then you can get omega-3, because some people say, "Oh, I don't want fish." Some people like it, but some people hate fish. Well, it doesn't taste at all like fish.
Mike: Right, because some people take fish oil supplements, and you get that fish taste. |
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