Powerhouse Produce
Best Apple
Pink Lady apples are sweet and tart, bursting with flavor and nutrition. This go-to solution for simple snacking is always the first to blossom and the last to be harvested, so each one soaks up about 200 days of sunshine for that rosy color and delicious flavor.
LAB RESULTS Testers found the flavor superior to that of other apples, saying it was "crisp, refreshing and incredibly tasty." Our experts said it holds up well in baking but is perfect on its own too.
PINK LADY APPLES, $1 TO $3 PER LB, GROCERY STORES
Most Innovative Fruit Snack
Overripe and wasted fruit scraps are rescued and upcycled for this unique snack; they're gently dried into snackable slices that retain the fruits' nutrient-rich peels.
LAB RESULTS The StrawPeary blend boasts an incredibly refreshing flavor and 5 g of fiber per serving sans any added sugar. "Hands down the best of all we tried," a tester raved.
RIND STRAW-PEARY BLEND, $5 TO $6 PER BAG, WHOLE FOODS MARKET
Best Citrus
Juicy and seedless, these enormous mandarins are known for their perfectly balanced sweetness and for being easy to peel.
LAB RESULTS Our food and nutrition pros loved that the fruit is an extremely rich source of vitamin C and packs 3 g of fiber. "They're perfectly sweet, with little of the pith that typically makes citrus fruits bitter," says GH Kitchen Appliances Lab Director Nicole Papantoniou.
SUMO CITRUS, $4.50 PER LB, GROCERY STORES
Best Kiwifruit
Deliciously sweet golden kiwi has a smooth, edible skin and juicy yellow flesh packed with nutrients. Bite directly into the kiwifruit or cut and scoop.
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Can Anything Really Firm Your Face? - Countless complexion brands tout skin-tightening solutions like firming skincare products, at-home devices and professional treatments
Countless complexion brands tout skin-tightening solutions like firming skincare products, at-home devices and professional treatments. Here, our experts get real about whether these techniques can actually help skin bounce back once it starts to go lax. Sagging skin is caused primarily by the loss of collagen and elastin (proteins that give skin structural support and elasticity) with age, says Mamina Turegano, M.D., a dermatologist at Sanova Dermatology in New Orleans. And there's no shortage of potions proclaiming to counteract it with firming and lifting effects. Most commonly in serum and moisturizer form, these products contain ingredients like peptides, retinol, vitamin C, growth factors and niacinamide that purport to stimulate collagen production or ones that plump skin, such as hyaluronic acid.
The Stress-Busting Hack That's Right Under Your Nose- Breathwork is more than the wellness trend du jour- it's a science-backed route to relief from multiple modern ailments.
“OK, OK, just take a breath.” If that’s what a friend advises after you panic-share about a major-anxiety-inducing situation — your teen taking his maiden solo voyage behind the wheel, work instability, another high-stakes world crisis dinging your phone every few minutes — it’s probably because they hate seeing you so on edge. But also, your friend is offering an effective means of slowing your spin. “The way you breathe affects anxiety, and anxiety affects how you breathe,” says James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art. “It’s a two-way street, and while anxiety isn’t a conscious choice, our breathing is.”
Do Men Really Not See The Mess? - The answer might surprise you. Journalist and author Gemma Hartley pulls back the curtain to reveal the invisible forces that drive this all-too-common cause of marital strife.
There was a time, earlier in my marriage, when every morning as I walked into the kitchen I braced myself for the rage and resentment that would well up in me.Cupboards left open. Dirty dishes in the sink. Coffee cups strewn around the house. And usually a pair of slippers or shoes, with inside-out socks, on the floor somewhere nearby. Even when I had left the house spotless the night before, I’d wake to a scene of disarray — the mess my husband had left behind on his way out the door for work.I didn’t know which scenario seemed worse, my husband’s consciously expecting me to clean up these messes or his truly not noticing them at all. I found myself silently tallying these small resentments, furious and flummoxed in turn that he seemed oblivious to things that needed to be tidied up around the house. It seemed as if he was always waiting for me to tell him what had to be done, as if he was incapable of noticing the mess himself even when he was creating it.
BLISTERED BITES
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At-Home Devices
In this burgeoning category of DIY skin tools, technologies like microcurrent (low-level electrical current), radiofrequency (lowfrequency electromagnetic waves), lasers (pulsating light) and LED light aim to stimulate muscles or collagen production to firm and tighten.
