When testing your compatibility with your current or prospective mate, don’t stop at astrological signs. According to scientists, food choice may shed some light on who is best suited for you.
The Journal of the American Dietetics Association reports that there is a definite difference between “fruit people” and “vegetable people.” Studies suggest that your fruit or vegetable preference is indicative of how adventurous you are when it comes to food.
For instance, fruit people tend to be much less audacious when it comes to cooking. If they cook at all, it is likely to be simple fare, often incorporating prepared entrees. For fruit people, it is all about convenience. And, except on rare occasion, forget about dinner parties—they take too much prep time.
Vegetable people, on the other hand, are all about adventure! The more savory and spicy, the better. Tannic wine accompanies most veggies’ meals, and they tend to host elaborate dinner parties and food-related fetes.
Are you a fruit person who longs to lure a vegetable person into your lair? Perhaps you’re a veggie type whose mouth is watering for sweet, juicy piece of fruit. If it’s a love connection you crave, we have the recipe for success: Mix it up. To seduce a fruit person over to the vegetable side, add honey or smear on a brown sugar glaze to sweeten organic vegetables. To tempt vegetable types to the fruit side, sprinkle salted organic nuts atop a fruity dessert or add a spicy chutney to free-range, organic chicken and farmer’s-market-fresh carrots.
In general, sweet flavors can be associated with fruit types, while savory flavors are the stuff of vegetable sorts. Here are a few more of our favorite sweet-and-savory combinations to whet your appetite for romance.
Vosges Chocolate, a great green company that’s powered by 100% renewable energy and plans to be 90% organic by the end of this year, takes chocolate to a whole new level. Mo’s Bacon Bar is, yes, milk chocolate made with applewood-smoked bacon and alderwood-smoked salt. Vegetarian? Try the Organic Enchanted Mushroom Candy Bar made with dark chocolate, reishi mushrooms and organic walnuts. Suddenly your average nuts and fruits chocolate bar just doesn’t satisfy like it used to, does it?
We love to slather Earth & Vine’s Tangerine Habanero Mustard —a citrus-packed punch of savory culinary depth—onto everything from organic chicken to French fries…and then feed them to our beloved from our fingertips. Naughty, naughty. Take a tip from our love kitchen and try Earth & Vine’s Spicy Apple Garlic Jam as a condiment for seared pork chops, or just spread it on a crusty baguette with a slice of gorgonzola or sharp cheddar.
479° Popcorn flavor varieties (pictured below and on our home page) are so complex and so addictive. We love the Black Truffle + White Cheddar made with organic cheese. If, for some inexplicable reason, truffles don’t set your heart aflutter, try their equally seductive Ginger Sesame Caramel popcorn—golden, buttery caramel popcorn infused with organic ginger and sprinkled with toasted organic sesame seeds.
A little sweet, a little salty, a little tart, a little spicy. The flavor of love, indeed.
—Laurel House
Laurel House is a published author, nationally recognized magazine writer, healthy living spokesperson, national and local morning television show expert, and healthy living advocate. The founder of GreenIQ.com, an online calculator that measures your carbon footprint, and spokesperson for companies like Nature Made Vitamins, Laurel is a contributing editor to Healing Lifestyles and Spas and Fit Yoga magazines, the co-author of books such as The Gurus’ Guide to Serenity (HarperCollins 2004) and author of hundreds of articles printed in an array of publications including Women’s Health, Spa Magazine and Vegetarian Times, among others. More than anything, Laurel is an advocate for a balanced green lifestyle
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