Is there anything North Korea can teach the US? Turns out ... juice drinks? At Foreign Policy, Justin Rohrlich got his hands on snacks and drinks from nations cut off from American junk food—North Korea, Syria, Iran, and Cuba. He enlisted food writer Mark Bittman to help him sample the lot, and Bittman deems Ryongsong Asian Pear Juice from North Korea "better than our Western equivalents." The North's Omija Soda is "pretty good," too, and both manage the feat with far less sugar. Not all fared so well: