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12/12 - Energy & Light Healing Circle w/ Peters Goldbeck - Saturday, 2:00pm to 4:30pm
This month we are happy to finally have Peter Goldbeck back at the RDWC and to host his Energy and Light Healing Celebration. Peter has been very busy down at the A.R.E. in Manhattan where he is a frequent lecturer […]

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Last month I posted a few items on the genetically modified (GM) food industry. It would be safe to say that 75 to 85 percent of all processed foods contain or were processed with genetically modified ingredients.
These products entered the markets with no testing for environmental impact or consumer safety.
In the European unions all […]

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About a year ago I wrote about food labels. This was after a friend bought a jar of imitation honey they thought was real honey. A few weeks ago it was me who got duped. In a rush, I bought a jar of dry roasted peanuts without fully reading the label. Whether intentional or not, […]

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Umami is a taste humans and animal can sense on special taste receptors on the tongue. Umami is not a distinct flavor but more like a quality. It can be described as savoriness, brothy or meaty. Umami taste receptors are stimulated by freely occurring glutamic acids (an amino acid) or salts of glutamic acids (called […]

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The term Natural Flavor now appears frequently on food labels. But what is it? The FDA has defined ( CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21, item 3) ‘Natural Flavor’ or ‘Natural Flavoring’ as any added ingredients, derived from a natural sources, to add flavor vs. nutritional value. Artificial flavors have the […]

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Unami
Hidden Sources of processed free glutamic acid (authors of this site are heavily biased against MSG)
Extracting Yeast Flavor Advantage
What’s Natural
What is the difference between artificial and natural flavors?

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