Keeping it real

Organic foods are on show at the Organic Day Carnival held in Hong Kong. [Photo by Wang Yuke/China Daily]

Compact bags of condensed organic juice can be spotted in exhibition booths. Office workers are especially fond of these because the handy packets are portable and advertised as richly nutritious. Between grueling meetings, taking a shot of juice refuels energy.

If fruit and vegetable juice is nothing new, then packaged ginger and black garlic juice is a novelty. People may initially feel grossed out at the thought of drinking these strange juices, but actually, they are intended for cooking stew.

"Young people today have little idea about making savory and healthy stew," product consultant of the Health Factor, Isaac Wong, says. "Pouring a bag of garlic juice into your stew not only helps with the flavor but also improves your health because black garlic helps rid harmful bacteria from your bowel and thus improves your digestion and absorption."

Organic seeds have been making their way into household snack jars－flaxseed, mustard seed, hemp and quinoa. Their lasting health values and versatility are often raved about.

Organic fruit puree, functional food and beverage, low-temperature dried fruit, no-addictives spreads, non-GMO (genetically modified organism) wheat and corn, farmed seafood and free-range poultry－the organic list is endless.

Going green is not reserved for food. Clothing, bedding, cosmetics and even tampons are now organic.