Fabulous Fast Food Flops
From hot dog-stuffed pizza to bacon sundaes, the fast food industry is plying consumers with wackier food items by the day. But here are a few products and services that didn't pass the national ...
View ArticleInformation Update - Consumers Encouraged to Use Digital Food Thermometers...
Canada is reminding Canadians that the only reliable way to make sure their meat, poultry, fish and seafood dishes reach safe internal cooking temperatures before serving is to use a digital food ...
View ArticleMore Retailers Seen Banking on Food
Furniture, electronics, kitchen gadgets. People looking for bargains have always shopped Big Lots for that kind of merchandise -- now and then. But now and then isn't often enough for the ...
View ArticleOne In Three Fish Sold At Restaurants And Grocery Stores Is Mislabeled
Escolar, right, is often substituted for more expensive Albacore tuna (left), a report on mislabeled seafood found. There are so many fish in the sea. But from a diner's viewpoint, ...
View ArticleUS Fast Food Intake Declines As Economy Forces Tighter Belts
According to a new federal health survey, Americans are including fewer fast food calories in their diet than they did just a decade ago.This report comes on the heels of another recent study which ...
View ArticleChef Jim Fiala shares his love of artichokes Italian cuisine
Jim Fiala, chef-owner of Acero in Maplewood and the Crossing in Clayton, chatted online with Post-Dispatch readers on Thursday. Here are excerpts from the questions and ...
View ArticleKids caloric intake falls slightly adults cut down on fast food
A woman poses with fast food. (Reuters/Carlos Barria) The intake of calories by American children and adolescents has dropped slightly over the past decade, the first decline in more than 40 years. A ...
View ArticleHow Junk Food Is Engineered To Be Hopelessly Addicting
Finding the bliss point required the preparation of 61 subtly distinct formulas--31 for the regular version and 30 for diet. The formulas were then subjected to 3,904 tastings organized in Los ...
View ArticleStudy One-Third of U.S. Seafood Is Mislabeled
One-third of seafood sold at restaurants and grocery stores in the U.S. is mislabeled, according to a new report from ocean conservation group Oceana. From 2010 to 2012, Oceana conducted DNA testing ...
View ArticleLoblaw Promotes Healthy Eating With New PL Products
Loblaw Cos. is launching a healthy eating campaign on Feb. 22 that will promote new President’s Choice private-label products. The retailer’s Loblaws, Atlantic Superstore and Real ...
View ArticlePeanut Processors Face Criminal Charges
The U.S. Department of Justice released a 76-count indictment Thursday charging former employees of the peanut company linked to a 2009 salmonella outbreak thought to be responsible for nine deaths. ...
View ArticleAmericans cut back on fast food but why
American adults got 11 percent of their daily calories from fast food in 2010, down from about 13 percent four years earlier, a new study shows. Public education may have played a role, but so have ...
View ArticleThe Daily Meal Ranks the 101 Best Restaurants in America
. If you are a foodie, just scrolling down the list may make you hungry.Of course, comparing apples to oranges is always a sticky wicket. And comparing burger joints to gourmet dining ...
View ArticleConsumers opt for vegetable ready-meals at Asda nowadays
The chief executive of Asda has revealed the supermarket giant has seen a jump in sales of vegetable ready-meals and quorn in the wake of the horse meat ...
View ArticleSIR Royalty Income Fund Files a Preliminary Prospectus for Proposed Secondary...
Feb. 21, 2013 /CNW/ - SIR Royalty Income Fund (TSX: SRV.UN) (the "Fund") today announced that it has filed a preliminary short form prospectus in each of the provinces and territories ...
View ArticleSalmonella causes pet food recalleby Denver snack maker
A Denver pet snack maker is recalling five months of production after a state inspection turned up salmonella and the FDA confirmed it in follow-up tests.Kasel Associates Industries Inc., which ...
View ArticleCBS4 Chef’s Roundtable Serves Up Food For Thought
MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) - A culinary extravaganza kicks off Thursday night at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. The 12th annual epicurean delight has a number of events planned including ...
View Article11 per cent of daily calories for adults come from fast food U.S. government...
High-calorie offerings from fast-food restaurants such as McDonald’s are cited in rates of obesity in the U.S., with about two-thirds of the population now classified as ...
View ArticleGermany wants stricter meat labels
Paris/Hamburg - France and Germany will push for compulsory labelling of the origin of meat used in processed food in a bid to avoid a repeat of a scandal that burst after horsemeat was found instead ...
View ArticleHospital food schemes wasted money
The government has wasted more than 54m on "failed" schemes to improve hospital food, according to the food and farming pressure group Sustain. Its report says compulsory nutritional ...
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