/index.php?id=1224863Mushrooms! Whichever way they look to you, beautiful or ugly or even magical. Mushrooms have been scientifically proved to having anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties, which assist the body in fending off diseases. Protecting heart health, our digestive system and maintaining healthy skin. It has also been proven that adding a few servings of mushrooms (fungi) to your diet each day can increase your longevity and fight a host of diseases! Fungi produce our BEST ant...

Every wondered what the pumpkin has to do with Halloween? Or where this event was born? The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the New Year, the boundary between the worlds of the living...

Apples red, green.. yellow! We all know the saying 'An apple a day keeps the Doctor away" or the original saying 'Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread' is in fact true. Apples are rich in vitamin c, antioxidants (to protect our cells from damage) and fibre (good for gut health), and soluble fibre (good for heart health). Eating apples daily can reverse the effects of damage on the liver (apples also carry pectin and malic th...

Eating a fresh juicy strawberry straight from the punnet is arguably the most pleasurable aspect for Australian spring and summers, for young and old. However, the recent strawberry needle tampering has affected not just us as consumers, but has almost crippled the local strawberry growers. Its caused hysteria leading to truckloads of rotten strawberries being dumped. At the time of writing this there have been 6 strawberry growers affected: Donnybrook, Berry Obsession, Berry Licious...

Trying to get the kids to eat a variety of vegetables can be somewhat hard , stressful and pretty time consuming  It tests our patience and also can push us to the brink of insanity (maybe I am just speaking for myself). But why the need to get a rainbow of vegetables into the stubborn mouths of our children? Well it can be easy to fall into a routine of focusing only on what you know the kids will eat. However, our bodies benefit from variety for optimal health we NEED a rainbow of...