What Does Organic Mean? What to Know When You’re Reading Labels
If you’re trying to eat responsibly, it can be tempting to grab anything labelled “organic.” After all, we’re all organisms, and that’s almost the same word, right? But what does organic mean, for...
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Sporked Awards: Best Spicy
Spicy foods aren’t for everyone. But if you wound up on this article, then they’re clearly for you and you only want the best. We tried a bunch of hot sauces, pepper-laden condiments, and fiery frozen...
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Sporked Awards: The Best Vegan Food We Tasted in 2024
Good news: It’s easier than ever to be vegan. Well, at least when it comes to having plenty of options—the inflation of grocery prices is another issue. Looking back on 2024, we seemed to find a new...
View ArticleWhat Is Sea Moss?
Far be it from me to raise my eyebrows over what people want to consume in their day-to-day life, but I’ll be honest, when I saw today’s topic, I had to double check that I wasn’t hired to write for...
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Best Rice for Risotto, Ranked
It even takes a special kind of rice to make risotto. The best rice for risotto is an Italian short to medium-grain rice, with varieties like arborio, baldo, and carnaroli, that can survive all that...
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The Best Things to Buy at Costco, According to Our Taste Tests
Costco is huge. Even the smallest Costco is 80,000 square feet. And while browsing one of the chain’s warehouses is our preferred method of exercise, it’s not the most efficient way to find the best...
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Sporked Awards: Best Soup
We’re currently in the throes of soup season—but it’s always soup season at Sporked HQ, where we’re constantly taste testing brothy soups, creamy soups, chilis, and chowders. This year, we finally got...
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We Tried All of the New Oreos Dropping in January (Golden Cakesters Are Back,...
It is a well-known fact that the good folks over at Oreo are innovators. If they can dream it they will do it. Not “can”…will. Oreo’s innovation strategy seems to be “throw everything at the wall and...
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Trader Joe’s Peppermint Crunch Popcorn Shouldn’t Work, but It Does
If you’ve looked at the packaging for Trader Joe’s Peppermint Crunch Popcorn, you probably wondered the same thing I did: This is…popcorn? Well, sort of. There is popcorn, albeit hidden under what...
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Sporked Awards: Best Condiment
Forget a beverage fridge; if we could afford it, we’d have a condiment fridge. Because we love sauces! We love dips! And there are so many good ones out there in the grocery world. We tried a ton of...
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Sporked Awards: Best Gluten Free Products of 2024
Here’s something you probably didn’t know about me (unless you’re my roommate, in which case—hi, roomie): While I myself am not gluten-free, I do live with a close friend who abides by a completely...
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Sporked Awards: Best Frozen Food
Our office microwave really got a workout this year. We taste tested frozen dinners for hungry children, frozen dinners for hungry men, and frozen dinners for people who are hungry but still need to...
View ArticleWhat Is ‘Biodynamic?’ It Involves Gnomes
Merriam-Webster defines biodynamic as “of or relating to a system of farming that follows a sustainable, holistic approach which uses only organic, usually locally-sourced materials for fertilizing...
View Article‘Healthy’ Snacks and Drinks to Buy at Dollar Tree
Believe it or not, we’ve found a lot of good stuff on our trips to Dollar Tree. Halloween candy. Holiday goodies. Even frozen foods, like Jamaican chicken patties and french fries. But there’s more at...
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Sporked Awards: Best Candy
This was a hard category to decide. A lot of new candy came out in 2024. Big shoutout to the somewhat divisive Kit Kat Ghost Toast and a huge congratulations to the triumphant return of Altoid Sours...
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Sporked Awards: The Best Brand Collabs From 2024
Brand collabs are funny. They’re like AI-generated products. Sometimes, like in the case of the IHOP x Lays pancake chips, it’s hard to tell which collab announcements are even real or simply fake...
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The Best Sugar-Free Coffee Syrup for the Best Cuppa Joe
Sometimes you want to add some delicious flavor to your daily cup of caffeine, but you don’t want all the sugar that comes with it. Luckily, there are a bunch of sugar free coffee syrups that you can...
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Best Frozen Fried Rice to Buy
Rice is great, but how do you take something great and make it even better? Fry it. You may know fried rice as your go-to Chinese take-out order or your end-of-the-week hack to use up random veggie...
View ArticleWhat Is Granulated Garlic?
I know fresh garlic, jarred garlic, and garlic powder. I even recently saw black garlic for the first time. But what is granulated garlic? Here’s everything you and I need to know about granulated...
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Sporked Awards: Best Snack Food
We tried a ton of incredible new snacks in 2024—seriously, so many snacks. I mean, we had to call an emergency Sporked team meeting just to reflect on all the different snack options yummy enough to...
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