Apples

    By Loren Berlin

    | 12:00PM 7/26/2011
    For more than 30 years, the standard McDonald's Happy Meals have been exactly the same -- a burger or chicken nuggets, fries and a soda. But no more. In an attempt to help youngsters make healthier food choices, the fast food chain is making big changes to its kid's-meal-in-a-box.

    By Linda Doell

    | 2:00PM 6/22/2011
    Seems Snow White shouldn't be the only one worried about consuming a questionable fruit. According to the latest data from the Environmental Working Group, apples have topped a list of fruit and vegetables containing the highest levels of pesticide residue. The nonprofit watchdog group analyzed...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 2:00PM 3/12/2009
    If there's one thing that gets me juiced ( there's actually a lot of things that do) it's that it's really hard to get apple juice anymore that doesn't come from concentrate shipped from China. All the major brands and most store brands use Chinese concentrate to make what I think most people would...

    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 6:30AM 12/31/2008
    Many a time I have stood over my kitchen sink, trying to peel little oval stickers off a pear or a sweet red pepper, silently cursing whoever it was that invented the produce identifiers.Well, now I feel just horribly, because Tom Mathison, founder of Stemilt Growers and the first man to use...