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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They offer six classic summer smoothies, including as the Tropical Treasure and the Cape Codder as well as five "Smoothies with a Purpose." A "purpose," in Wrap-speak, is a nutritional additive, such as ginkgo, lecithin, ginseng, protein vita-mix or nutritional yeast. Smoothies like the "Athlete's Advantage" and "Adam's Rocket Fuel" promise energy and hydration to thirsty customers...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Icy Treats Beat Summer Heat | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Both stores offer to add vitamins to theirdrinks. Cafe Gaia will provide "Boosters" likecalcium, soy protein and gingko bilboa to asmoothie. The Wrap's additives--called"Purposes"--include lecithin, wheat germ and oatbran...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HDS Turns Up the Heat | 10/28/1998 | See Source »

...cream parlor in San Francisco that served the sort of fresh-fruit drinks sometimes called smoothies, and I noticed that the add-ins you could get in your smoothie (most of them for an extra 50[cents]), were listed as follows: "spirulina, bee pollen, brewer's yeast, calcium, ginseng, lecithin, protein powder mix, vitamins & minerals, and wheat germ." In Kansas City, people would pay a lot more than 50[cents] to have any of those things removed from whatever they were eating and replaced with Betty Lucas' chicken batter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIDE OF THE PUDGY | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

SOYBEANS. A mainstay of Asian cuisines, soybeans can be boiled, canned or processed as bean curd (tofu). Last year researchers at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City found that lecithin, which is abundant in soybeans, may help prevent alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. Isoflavones in the beans have been shown to prevent liver cancer in animals by breaking down toxic agents that can cause the malignancy. A strong word of warning about soy: it also contains protease inhibitors, which have been linked to the development of pancreatic cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wonders of The Vegetable Bin | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

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