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The Rise of the Lifestyle Diet
Can you keep up with Chipotle? Are you ready for the McFalafel? Find out how chains are accommodating popular Lifestyle diets.
The Values of Food
As consumers have a wider range of choices in the businesses and brands available to them, social causes are beginning to play a more substantial role in their selection process. When 8 out of 10 consumers do not believe that large food companies try their best to be socially responsible or act in the best […]
What’s Next for Natural?
Like many other office kitchens, the official JT Mega mini fridge is slowly being taken over by La Croix sparkling water. Once a refuge for artificially-sweetened soft drinks, the shelves now burst under the weight of “pamplemousse”, “mure pepino”, and “cerise limon.” And like most new beverage items on the market, each can proudly proclaims […]
Waste Not, Want Not
Though food waste has been a hot topic across the industry over the last several months, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more passionate group on the issue than this year’s Esca Bona 2017 attendees. This past October, JT Mega joined nearly 200 food entrepreneurs, agriculturists, venture capitalists and local farmers in Austin, TX to […]
Lessons From Organic Water
This past July, Vermont businessman Adam Lazar celebrated a remarkable achievement: getting USDA organic certification on his new line of bottled water, Asarasi. Asarasi; the USDA’s first certified-organic water Yep, you read that right. Organic water. Because water has no carbon molecules and is therefore technically inorganic, the USDA has previously excluded water as an […]