Information about the Aspen Ideas Festival is here. I am scheduled for a session, The American Wellness Paradox, currently scheduled from 11:00-11:50 a.m., at the East Lawn Tent. This will be a discussion with senior HHS policy advisor, Calley Means. Here’s the blurb on it: “Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, supplements, wellness trends, and “clean eating,” yet rates of chronic disease and metabolic illness continue to climb. As skepticism fuels the rise of movements like MAHA, debates over what Americans should eat have become deeply cultural, political, and economic. Two influential voices with sharply different perspectives on nutrition and food science explore how food systems, farming practices, consumer culture, and the wellness industry collided to create one of the defining public health debates of our time.”
Product innovation of the week: Cannabis ice cream
I learned about this from a newsletter I subscribe to, Dairy Reporter (this is why I subscribe).
Consumers can now taste a new cannabis-infused ice creams made by Boston’s Emack & Bolio’s in collaboration with cannabis operator MariMed.
The ice creams are vegan, no less.
Two vegan flavors – Cup O’ Coffee Chip and Chocolate Sunny Days – have already debuted, and a dairy line is arriving ‘in two weeks’, DairyReporter understands…“Our R&D team pays close attention to consumer trends and food categories that make sense to consider infusing with cannabis,” a MariMed spokesman said. “Ice cream has seen enormous growth, particularly craft ice cream.”
They are sold only in Massachusetts for now.
“MariMed was looking to partner up with an ice cream company to develop products using their full spectrum cannabis oil and CBD,” Emack & Bolio’s founder Robert Rook told DairyReporter. “We both wanted great tasting product, with clean ingredients infused with the best full-spectrum cannabis oil.
Yum?
I tried to find ingredient lists for these products, but all I could find was a press release.
I wrote and asked for them.
Stay tuned.
