The Miracle Fruit: It Miraculously Turns Sour Tastes Into Sweet
The Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) is known for its “miraculous” berry.
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Sichuan and Sansho — Pepper Berries That Create A Numbing and Tingling Sensation
The Sichuan Pepper is not actually a pepper. It’s the lemon-flavored, numbing berry of the Prickly Ash Tree (Zanthoxylum simulans).
Deer Tongue Lettuce: A Crunchy and Sharp-Tasting Lettuce
Deer’s Tongue is a crunchy lettuce with a taste that is “sharp” but not bitter.
Red Sails: A Beautiful and Flavorful Lettuce
Red Sails — it’s a lettuce that is both attractive and full of flavor.
Electric Daisies — They Create A Buzzing Sensation When Tasted
The Acmella Oleracea plant is known by many names — the toothache plant, the electric daisy, buzz buttons and szechuan buttons.
Stunning Food Coloring Made From 100% Freeze-Dried Plants
Suncore is a company from California that produces beautiful food coloring using only freeze-dried plants.
Honeybush: Another Underrated Red Tea From South Africa
Honeybush (Cyclopia) is another excellent caffeine-free tea from Africa. The taste is sweet with notes of apricot.
Red Tea: The Underrated Caffeine-Free Tea
Rooibos (pronounced “roy-boss”) is a red tea grown the mountainous Cedarberg area north of Cape Town in South Africa.
The Fastest And Easiest-To-Grow Microgreens
These are the easiest microgreens to germinate and sprout:
Home Coffee Roasters: 5 Efficient Choices
Home coffee roasting, once considered an exotic practice only for the hardcore coffee drinker, has seen a rebirth in recent years. Coffee lovers everywhere are embracing this surprisingly simple and efficient way to enjoy the best tasting coffee around. Once a common practice in American households, the 20th century onslaught of commercial coffee roasters and …
Nutrients: Essential Elements of Healthy Teeth
Brush. Floss. See your dentist. We all know the basics of keeping our mouths healthy, but if you’re hitting the high points and still having trouble staying out of the dental chair, there could be a missing link in your overall dental health plan: nutrition. We all know that eating our fruits and veggies and …
Choosing Sustainable Seafood
Our food choices are a big part of our overall environmental impact, and seafood can seem like an environmental catch-22. Its popularity has been on the rise as part of a healthy diet, but some types of seafood are surprisingly un-green. So what makes a particular type of seafood environmentally friendly? Read on to learn …
Adaptogens: Plants That Help Your Body Deal With Stress
Work. Kids. Marriage. Financial Problems. There are one hundred little things in any given day that can really stress us out — and all that worrying is bad for our health. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that up to 90% of doctor visits in the United States are stress related. …
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The Most Efficient Snack: Pure Organic Bar
A MetaEfficient snack bar. Unlike other nutrient bars I’ve tasted, this one’s delicious. My topic pick is the Orange Cranberry Bar. It’s made by a company called PURE, based in Holland, Michigan.
World’s First 100% Solar-Powered Stadium
A couple of years ago, we wrote about a 1.3 megawatt solar-powered stadium in Switzerland. A new solar powered stadium has been built in Taiwan for the 2009 World Games in July. Designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito, the stadium incorporates 8,844 solar panels on the roof. The roof will generate enough energy to power …
HippoRoller Water Carrier – Simple Efficiency With A Far-Reaching Payoff
Water is an immediate, fundamental need for human survival, but one in six people worldwide don’t have immediate access to water resources, particularly in arid regions of southern Africa. The HippoRoller is a deceptively efficient water carrier with the potential to offer huge health, economic, and social benefits to developing communities.
The Best Rice Cookers
I recommend a fuzzy logic rice cooker if you eat rice every day, basically making your cooker an always-on device. Your rice will take about twice as long to cook as it does in on-off rice cookers — but if rice is part of your daily routine, that will never be a concern. In a …
AeroGarden: Easy, Efficient Indoor Gardening
In 2004, MetaEfficient.com pre-reviewed the AeroGrow aeroponics growing system. That was before the system was released. A couple of years ago, you couldn’t cut on your TV without seeing an ad for AeroGrow indoor gardening systems. It isn’t as ubiquitously advertised now, but it hasn’t disappeared from the market. In fact, five years after its …
Visit To An Efficient Winebar
I don’t think I would have ever discovered this winebar, had I not been led to it, through the labyrinthine streets of Arlington, by Chantrea, who is the originator of what I have to call a noetic zymurgy. I followed Chantrea through the avenues, and into a restaurant. I don’t recall which one, but I …
Efficient Food Efficiently Proximate To Us
An efficient locavoristic cooking class at Cavallo Point.