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The effects go far beyond nutrition and health. You don't have to consume fast food to be the target of some of its most insidious effects. A team of Toronto researchers has found even incidental and unconscious exposure to the fast-food symbols all around...
America is obsessed with bacon. There's bacon chocolate, bacon salt, bacon popcorn, baconaise and yes, even BaconAir. The latest step down the bacon-crazed path is to smell like bacon and thus Bacōn Perfume/Cologne (pronounced ba-cone), by Fargginay, was born.
...Without the artificial colouring FD&C Yellow No 6, Cheetos Crunchy Cheese Flavored Snacks would look like the shrivelled larvae of a large insect. Not surprisingly, in taste tests, people derived little pleasure from eating them....
The cost and inaccessibility of healthier food choices are forcing the greater majority of South Africans into an unhealthy lifestyle - it costs on average 69% more to eat healthier food, says a new study on nutrition in SA...
A new pathway has been discovered that links a common dietary lipid - phosphatidyl choline (also called lecithin) - and intestinal microflora with an increased risk of heart disease, according to a Cleveland Clinic study published in the latest issue of Nature.
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While poachers risk life and liberty extracting abalone off the shores of Hermanus, the pricey delicacy is being produced in tons not far away by Abagold, an SA aquaculture success story. Two decades ago this company helped pioneer what...
A US government advisory panel says there is no proof that foods with artificial colourings cause hyperactivity in most children and there is no need for these foods to carry special warning labels.
...Fast food chain KFC is to stop frying chicken in palm oil. The company says it is removing the vegetable oil from deep fat friers to gain a "double benefit" by reducing climate change and heart disease....
In announcing the sale of Pringles this week, Procter & Gamble concluded what had been a tumultuous, sometimes zany, 50-year experiment in engineered food....
The Western Cape High Court has put an end to Irvin & Johnson's (I&J) unlawful competition against Sea Harvest when it dismissed its request to appeal against an earlier judgment prohibiting it from passing off its new Oven Crunch product as Sea Harvest's well-known Oven...
Coffee is astonishingly popular, the third most-consumed drink in the world after water and tea, and the second most-traded (legal) commodity after oil. Here's a wonderful 'consideration' of coffee, it's history and place in society...
What was created as a novelty item last year has now been added to a popular New York restaurant menu permanently. The 'Serendipity Foot Long Haute Dog' - sexied up with the food equivalent of diamonds and pearls - was admitted into...
San Francisco food giant, Diamond Foods, has bought Pringles from Procter & Gamble in a $1.5 billion deal, making it the world's second-largest snack company behind PepsiCo.
...The world has a water problem, and it’s all about access. There is enough water to serve the world’s population, but getting it, transporting it, and keeping it clean are increasing problems we can ill afford to ignore. In the face of shrinking...
The Consumer Goods Council of SA (CGCSA) has announced the appointment of its new head of the Food Safety Initiative (FSI) business unit, following the departure of Dr Lucia Anelich at the end of 2010.
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Danisco's growth in South Africa has been nothing short of phenomenal in the past five years or so - and mirroring this success was a festive official opening this week of its new and very world-class Innovation Centre in Cape Town.
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Quinoa is hailed as a 'superfood' in the West. But those who grow it can no longer afford it....
SymphonyIRI Group, a market research company, has announced the most successful food and beverage product launches of 2010 in its annual New Product Pacesetters report. The top 10 products thrived on home-based consumption while appealing to consumer...
Pret a Manger, the popular upper-end UK sandwich chain has announced 37% profit increase, partly on the back of an increased demand for a humble breakfast cereal....
This interactive infographic from two students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design won a Visualizing.org World Water Day challenge to make the most impactful visual on the theme of urban water issues. The result reveals how water is used and ...