Articles tagged: "beverages"

1: The Process of Coffee Decaffeination

The beverage industry is a major money making enterprise with many competing advertising messages aimed at the consumer on a daily basis. All beverages including coffees, teas, sodas and bottled water are marketed around a major ingredient – caffeine or no caffeine. In the non-caffeine market segment, consumers will notice many terms used to describe the beverages such "decaffeinated", "naturally decaffeinated", and "caffeine-free".

2: The Most Popular Flavors of Teas

In 2007, Americans consumed well over 55 billion servings of tea, or over 2.50 billion gallons of hot, iced and ready-to-drink (pre-bottled) tea beverages. Tea is a refreshing choice with no natural sodium, fat, carbonation, or sugar (always read labels on pre-bottled beverages to look for added sugar and sodium).

3: Delicious and Easy Cappuccino and Espresso Recipes

While coffee-based beverages remain as popular as ever, more Americans are looking for a do-it-yourself way to enjoy high-end coffee bar style cappuccino and espresso drinks at home. Fortunately, there are many affordable products on the market to assist the home brewing enthusiast in their quest for the ultimate coffee concoction.

4: Taste of Wisconsin Chocolate

Artist/cartoonist John Q. Tullius said "Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies." Long ago, chocolate became the go-to indulgence for a large portion of humanity. We eat it when we're happy, when we're sad, when we're celebrating, and for no good reason at all. Americans consume 11.7 pounds per person annually. Most chocolate is consumed as candy bars and similar mass-produced treats, but for a growing number, the hunt for high-quality confections made in small quantities by hand using the best ingredients has become a mission.

5: Flavors of Norway -- Syttende Mai

Ask most people what the biggest day on the Norwegian calendar is and they would probably say the first day of the ice fishing season. If you're in that group (come on, be honest) you may be shocked and surprised to find out you're WRONG...close...but WRONG! If you live in Dane, Rock, or Green Counties, you should be run out of town on a rail.

6: The Scoop on Local Ice Cream

One of my fondest memories of growing up was the ice cream truck slowly cruising through my neighborhood on those hot summer days. The sound of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down or The Entertainer played through tinny speakers would send kids scrambling in every direction to get a quarter before the truck got away. Nothing in the world ever tasted as good as those frozen treats during the hazy summers of so long ago.

7: The Little Dairy that Did

I'm a Wisconsin boy, born and bred; I never met a dairy product I didn't like. My wife and son both drink skim milk but the lowest I would ever go was 2%. I felt, as many do, that skim was just blue water, even if it was healthier. However, recently something happened that changed my mind. That something was Blue Marble Dairy.

8: Good Bacteria: How Probiotics Can Boost Your Internal Health

Since the 1940 's , modern medicine has mainly focused on the killing off of harmful disease causing bacteria via newly discovered antibiotics. This practice came about with not much understanding of the role, in the advantages, that good micro-organisms (bacteria) played in maintaining good health.