Neither vegetables nor whole grains nor cooking is central to this Nestlé venture. The participants in Japan are paying $600 a year for nutrient-fortified teas that are dispensed in capsules. Hitomi Kasuda, a forty-seven-year-old freelance writer and new user, said she looked forward to submitting her DNA to Nestlé for testing. “There’s probably a lot of things I don’t realize about my health that I can discover in a blood and genetics test,” she said. For now, she said, the Nestlé nutrient teas that she’s consuming four times a week have had at least one tangible benefit. They’ve made her
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