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Amazi Foods is a Certified Paleo health food brand that has gone beyond the fair trade model to connect directly with smallholder farmers in Uganda.
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Amazi Foods is a Certified Paleo health food brand that has gone beyond the fair trade model to connect directly with smallholder farmers in Uganda.

While past decades saw butter consumption drop considerably as Americans replaced natural butter with margarine products made from cheap vegetable oils and emulsifiers, today millions of consumers are returning to more natural diets based on real foods, including butter. A 2014 study found that Americans consumed around 23 sticks of butter per capita each year, which amounted to almost 900,000 tons of butter consumed nationwide. That figure has only grown as the $2 billion butter industry...

Today, most major food producers, distributors, and corporations out there understand that the average consumer has concerns about where their food comes from, how healthy it is, and the impact it has on society and the wider environment. Even if they´re not fully dedicated to fair wages for migrant farm workers or cutting out trace glyphosate from foods we eat, most people do want healthy food that didn´t require burning down swaths of the Amazon rainforest in order to source primary...

Like so many people in the health and wellness industry, Jordan Brown, Jason Karp, and Jessica Karp, the founders of HU Kitchen, came to the decision to start their company start their own health food company through personal experience with healthier eating. For them, a healthier diet and lifestyle was all about “getting back to being human.” Recent estimates find that at least 60 percent of the American diet consists of highly processed foods, including a combination of products that...

Generally, when we think of countries suffering from obesity, we think of places like the United States where the industrialization of food systems occurred half a century ago. In the U.S., entire generations have grown up with highly processed food as the "nutritional" basis of their daily diet. Today, however, the country suffering from the worst levels of obesity is not the United States, but Nauru, a small island in the Pacific Ocean. In fact, the ten countries with the highest levels of...

Generalmente, cuando pensamos en países que sufren de la obesidad, pensamos en lugares como los Estados Unidos donde la industrialización de los sistemas alimentarios ocurrió hace medio siglo. En este país, generaciones enteras han crecido con la comida altamente procesada como base “nutricional” de su dieta cotidiana. Hoy en día, sin embargo, el país que sufre los peores niveles de obesidad no es los Estados Unidos, sino Nauru, una pequeña isla en el océano Pacifico. De hecho, los diez países...

In the year 1700, sugar was a commodity only the rich could afford, and average, global, per capita consumption stood at about four pounds per person per year. Two hundred years later, people were consuming over 90 pounds of sugar per year. Today, the average American consumer easily consumes more than 150 pounds of sugar per day, or just under a half-pound of sugar daily. Interestingly enough, diabetes continues to rise in connection with our increasing sugar intake. Today, roughly 10.5...

Al caminar por los pasillos de su supermercado local, es probable que se encuentre con docenas de marcas de alimentos que etiquetan sus productos alimenticios como "bajos en calorías", "bajos en grasas", "bajos en azúcar" e incluso "bajos en sodio.” Sin embargo, no encontrará ningún producto alimenticio que esté marcado como “bajo en carbohidratos.” A pesar del hecho de que millones de personas en todo el mundo están descubriendo los beneficios para la salud que conlleva la reducción de la...

Para que cualquier negocio tenga éxito, es crucial comprender cómo se mueve el mercado y cómo las tendencias de crecimiento están impactando en el sector económico. Para las marcas de Keto y otros alimentos bajos en carbohidratos, las recientes tendencias de crecimiento del mercado revelan y aumentan la demanda de los consumidores por productos alimenticios saludables, orgánicos y bajos en carbohidratos. Investigación reciente confirma que se espera que el sector de alimentos saludables vea una...

Hay una razón por la cual nueve de cada diez empresas y marcas nuevas fracasan en sus primeros años de operación. Incluso después de una exitosa campaña de recaudación de capital, un desarrollo inicial de productos que cautivó al público, y el lanzamiento de una marca que atrajo a las personas a su negocio, desarrollar estrategias sólidas para retener a sus clientes es uno de los aspectos más difíciles de una empresa exitosa. Atraer nuevos clientes es ciertamente importante para las marcas en...