3 Quick Bites: Are antioxidants mostly hype?

Every week, I compile a short list of food items on the Internet that made me hungry, curious, confused or all of the above.

Are antioxidants mostly hype?
If you’ve ever felt extra virtuous for drinking a pomegranate and blueberry smoothie or popping an antioxidant supplement, the latest research could pull the rug out from under you. It’s not that antioxidants aren’t good—it’s just that they probably won’t reverse the aging process the way we’ve accepted as fact since the early 1990s. “Marketing of the alleged health benefits of antioxidants has been at saturation levels…the result is that antioxidants have a powerful health halo, one that they did not earn through scientific study,” according to a recent article in Science-Based Medicine.

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The Foodie Magician will freak you out!
Is he a mind reader? How did he do that? That’s what chefs, diners, restaurateurs and random foodies are thinking as Foodie Magician Josh Beckerman works his magic. He discovered the strange intersection between food and magic while curating an epic Instagram feed featuring some of New York’s hottest spots. He says he’d like to eat at every single restaurant in the city, and he’s working his way through the list and astonishing fellow foodies with cool magic tricks along the way.

See for yourself >>

Meet the hot new apples
Remember when Honeycrisp apples first came out? Their sweet-tart crunch won the affection of consumers right away. Other great apples like Cosmic Crisp, Ambrosia and Jazz have been climbing the charts in the past year. And there are even newer apples on the block now, so get ready to sink your teeth into recently developed varieties like SweeTango, Juici, Opal and SnapDragon, according to an article in The New York Times.

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