Designer Health Foods

Here’s an antioxidant berry juice I want at my next dinner party. It’s a goji berry drink packaged in a light-bulb-shaped bottle and dubbed gloji. I personally gave this one the best design award at the 2008 Natural Products Expo West in Los Angeles. It’s about as bright an idea as you can get. The gloji web site is as design-rich as the product. Go to www.gloji.com.

And if goji berry juice isn’t your favorite flavor of antioxidant, then perhaps you’d prefer the shape of pomegranate. The new, and heavily advertised, POM juice is an alternative designer package for those seeking red antioxidant juices and a sense of style. The web site is www.pomwonderful.com.

Great Healthy Recipe Sites

There must be millions of recipes on the Internet and some of the recipe databases are really just too big for their own good. So here are a couple of sites that stand out from the crowd. First, there’s Cindalou’s Kitchen Blues — a site full of excellent and well presented recipes that are all gluten free. She’s also got dairy free, sugar free, and vegan recipe sections. Take a look at cindalouskitchenblues blog.

At The Hummus Blog, you can get information, tips, history, and of course recipes that all contain hummus. Actually, the blog is about middle-eastern cooking in general and you’ll certainly find something interesting that you can cook. You’ll even learn about the hummus diet! It’s at humus101.com.

And finally, a recipe video…learn how to make this simple white bean crustini, which is healthy (get organic beans if you can) and helps suppress the appetite (that is, a little goes a long way). The presenter, Ali Occhialini, is a student chef and very down to earth.