News You Can Use: She created heart-healthy salad dressing curves bad dieting habits and eating over processed foods

The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed, Itiona Scott. She was only 14 years old when she lost her mother to cardiovascular disease–a disease that kills around 695,000 people in the United States every year and one that disproportionally affects African American women and other People of Color. The culprit? Bad eating habits, overly processed foods, and a lack of information on eating right and correctly reading the ingredients on the back of the product label. Using that loss as a catalyst, Itionia launched a line of heart-healthy salad dressings and marinades and aimed to fix the American diet one sale at a time.

Essie Marie was created to impact the heart health epidemic within the women and minority communities. Founder, Itiona Scott shares how her mother's death became the motivation for her company.

Topics Covered

Why Essie Marie is different.
How did Essie Marie Start?
How we got into Whole Foods
What are the flavors?
Future aspects of the brand?
Where can we find the product?

More on Essie Marie

Essie Marie prides itself on being the only African American woman owned heart-healthy dressing and marinade brand in it’s category. Itiona plans to take Essie Marie products national, to help as many people as possible fight against the silent killer, heart disease.This family recipe salad dressing is tasty, healthy and the perfect addition to any family gathering.

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