Traffic Light Cook, founded by a health, nutrition, and life coach, makes it easy to choose energizing ingredients, recipes, and habits.

A vegan, gluten-free, fiber-dense decadent chocolate pudding sans processed sugar and offers a serving each of a fruit and a veggie.

This vegan, gluten-free, Indian cilantro-mint chutney offers digestive benefits and is a great companion to sandwiches, buddha bowls, and pretty much anything Indian.

This vegan, gluten-free kale and white bean soup is full of flavors as well as nutrients--a win-win combination.

Organic produce tends to be more expensive than conventional.

The use of turmeric in food and medicine dates as far back as 4,000 years.

This vegan, gluten-free West African Peanut Soup, made with beta carotene-packed sweet potatoes and just the right amount of peanut butter, spells tasty, nutritious comfort food.

This vegan, gluten-free South Indian beetroot rasam (soup) is spicy, garlicy, tangy, and gingery and is sure to keep you warm during the cold winter.

EdEd Ariana, a Leadership Coach, likens the process of learning to cook with that of a painter learning to paint.

This beet borscht with an egg is a vegan take on traditional (Ukrainian) beet borscht.

The main draw of beets is their magical health-promoting attributes, which range from decreasing the risks of heart diseases to providing sustained energy.

Recognized as one of the top 100 pediatricians in the Bay Area during 2014-17, Anika chooses no other alternative (such as eating out regularly or pre-prepared processed food) to home-cooked meals for her family.

This yummy lemony carrot ginger soup is a perfect food for lunch or dinner during winter and works as a preventive or restorative food in this flu season.

This one-pot soup offers a lot of flavor and comfort on a wintry day (lunch) or evening (dinner).

Richa Sardana--this month's guest on Busy People Cook series--shares her recipe for Homemade Granola.

A tad firmer than traditional buttermilk biscuit, this whole-grain vegan biscuit offers almost the same experience as the traditional biscuit.

This no-processed-sugar-added, vegan, & paleo, pumpkin pie spice latte offers a lot of flavor from real pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice.

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These vegan, gluten-free, paleo sun butter cups/sandwich make a perfect Halloween treat.

These vegan, paleo, gluten-free, no-processed sugar added, bite-size almond pistachio fudge bowls offer a taste of Indian sweets.