A Plant A Day

This post series on botanical ingredient adulteration is inspired by the excellent work coming out of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention […]

Some striking statistics were shared by Mark Blumenthal of the American Botanical Council and Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program at this

One uncomfortable truth keeps surfacing: as an industry, we still invest far more in marketing than we do in science.

What continues to stand out is how naturally systems thinking & complexity science is converging with the way many of

The voucher specimen: a pressed plant, carefully preserved and archived, serving as a permanent reference point for identity. In an

One of the hot topics on day two of ICSB: functional mushrooms; and more specifically, the need for proper reference

ICSB is one of the few conferences that truly brings both sides of the conversation into the same room: scientists

Adulteration is the practice of substituting, diluting, or otherwise manipulating a botanical ingredient so that what’s sold is not what

There’s a part of Stefan that secretly wants to be an investigative journalist… In this clip taken from our conversation

The False Daisy (aka. Bhringaraj; Eclipta prostrata) is a small perennial herb in the Asteraceae family originally from the Americas