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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Different Beasts On organic vs. natural foods	Umbra Fisk	31 Mar 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm trying to convince my sister that there is a difference between all-natural and organic products, and she doesn't think there is. I'm pretty sure there is a difference, I just don't know what it is. I look at the ingredients of some of the food she buys that she says are "natural" and I wonder how these products are able to claim that! What are the qualifications for something to be labeled all-natu ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, consumerism, food, green living, green products, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

The Bees' Needs On organic honey	Umbra Fisk	05 Mar 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I was looking for a nice, local, organic honey to use in reworking some recipes so that they didn't use sugar. So I headed to Whole Foods, and was stuck looking at a honey in a plastic container labeled organic from Brazil, and a local product in a glass container but not labeled organic. And I started wondering -- what makes honey organic? I mean, bees fly. How do you know what plants they ate or pollinated unless you've cag ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, green living, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

The Ripe Stuff On organic bananas	Umbra Fisk	27 Feb 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Why are organic bananas always smaller and almost always greener than non-organic? BG Tallahassee, Fla. Dearest BG, Hmm. Fresh organic fruits and vegetables often differ in appearance from their conventionally grown kin. They're the hippies of the produce world: unwaxed, expressing their individualism, coming to the produce stand as they are, lumps and all. Although I notice this has changed some over the past couple decade ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, green living, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

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