Recently the greenestbeans.com Team had the opportunity to meet with Diane Atwood, local health reporter and blogger. Check out Diane’s post about greenestbeans.com in her blog, Catching Health. In addition to her blog post, Diane also featured us on her spot during the Morning Report on our local NBC affiliate, WCSH.

We are excited to announce that greenestbeans.com is one of 10 finalists for The Center for Women & Enterprise’s (CWE) Women Owned Business Challenge. This annual competition offers prize packages worth more than $12,500 at its CWE Women Business Leaders Conference. Five finalists, including greenestbeans.com, are competing in the Start track for early-stage women-owned businesses; another five are competing in the Grow track. Launched in 2014, greenestbeans.com makes it easy to find healthy food and safe products for people and ...

If you haven’t visited greenestbeans.com lately, you haven’t visited greenestbeans.com. We have spent the last several weeks completely redesigning our site to give users a cleaner, more modern browsing experience. The overall look and feel of the site has changed and we have streamlined the search feature allowing you to search within product families for the items you are seeking.

In addition to the many aesthetic changes, we have expanded our product families beyond food. We ...

Inflammation is your body’s reaction to some sort of attack. It can fight off bacteria and viruses and helps to repair damaged tissues. Most people are familiar with the signs of inflammation in your body – there may be pain, some swelling, a general feeling of discomfort, this is acute inflammation and is meant to protect us. Lately though another type of inflammation has been getting more and more attention – chronic (long-term) systemic inflammation. This ...

Recently on the greenestbeans.com Facebook page I posted an infographic detailing a handful of the estimated three hundred symptoms that may be associated with celiac disease. Someone I have been friends with since elementary school saw the post and replied that she had more than half the symptoms listed. She wondered what type of testing might be involved and why, if she had celiac disease, would it not have been diagnosed by this point in her life. ...

When I first heard about the “DARK Act”, I was sure it was part of a plot from a science fiction movie or some other prop dreamed up in Hollywood. In my mind I could see an evil villain sitting behind a big desk, gleefully rubbing his hands together while cackling at the idea of preventing people from knowing what was in the food they were eating. The reality is not too far off from what I imagined. ...

A quick search of the grocery store shelves will reveal many different products which contain high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). From baked goods, to canned goods, frozen items to beverages, it seems that few products are immune from the presence of the controversial sweetener. What is it about HFCS that makes it so controversial? I’ve seen the ads on TV (sponsored by the Corn Refiners Association) telling me that my body doesn’t know the difference between sugar ...

Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley. In addition to being found in many foods, it can also be found in medicines, vitamins, and lip balms. While many of us consume gluten with no problems, an estimated one out of every one hundred people are not able to do so. These people suffer from celiac disease. In addition to the millions of people who have been diagnosed and know they are living with ...

Grocery shopping used to be
A mindless quick activity.
I’d push my cart from aisle to aisle,
Grabbing things that made me smile,
I guess I was a bit naïve
But I’ll admit I did believe
That overall our food was safe
And now that thought just makes me chafe
‘Cause when I started learning more
About the food that’s in the store
GMO’s and pesticides,
Unhealthy artificial dyes,
Then grocery shopping ceased to be
Something that was so carefree.
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