1.   Critics and those who market functional foods agree that most products probably do not have enough herbs to deliver the promised health benefits.

2.   It has herbs.

3.   Or use the whole leaves of herbs in green salads, an especially good trick if you have unusual-color herbs, such as purple basil.

4.   They said having herbs in conventional foods rendered them food additives, which are considered unsafe until their safety has been proved, according to federal law.