Published: Dec 17, 2015

CHICAGO—When the next generation of home cooks go to their kitchens, they’ll be entering a world of interconnected smart appliances, 3-D printers, and touchscreen controls that will simplify food preparation, create customized meal solutions, and produce

Published: Dec 17, 2015

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have for the first time sequenced the genome of a commercial walnut variety.

Published: Dec 17, 2015

According to new research from the Monell Center, sensitivity to sweet taste varies widely across school-aged children and is in part genetically determined. The findings may inform efforts to reduce sugar consumption and improve nutritional health of chi

Published: Dec 17, 2015

Most people couldn’t name one animal drug used to produce their food. Yet conventionally produced US meat is grown with antibiotics, vaccines, anti-inflammatory drugs, hormones and other chemicals most of which people would want to avoid if they were on t

Published: Dec 17, 2015

We are continuing to invest in our global supply chain as we execute our plan for profitable growth.

Published: Dec 16, 2015

PepsiCo is announcing GMO-free Tropicana—a product that has always been GMO-free. PepsiCo’s Tropicana Pure Premium will start carrying a label early next year notifying shoppers that the orange juice does not contain genetically modified organisms.

Published: Dec 16, 2015

The average wholesale onion prices at the country's largest wholesale onion market, Lasalgaon Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC), increased by 8.69% after the central government reduced the Minimum Export Price (MEP) from US$700 to US$400 per met

Published: Dec 16, 2015

Sugar futures settled slightly down Monday, after recouping most of the losses in early trade when some jittery traders closed out their bets after a surprising government report showed that bullish traders had added to their already near-record long posi

Published: Dec 16, 2015

FiveStar Gourmet Foods, an Ontario, Calif.-based provider of fresh and frozen prepared foods, announced plans to expand to the East Coast with a $20 million investment in a food manufacturing and distribution operation near Naples, Fla.

Published: Dec 16, 2015

Kansas State University (KSU) researchers have developed a new testing method to help millers assure wheat flour purity, according to a study published in Cereal Foods World, the official publication of the American Association of Cereal Chemists.

Published: Dec 16, 2015

Baldor Specialty Foods, a U.S. distributor of fresh produce, has announced that it will implement a comprehensive plan to eliminate all organic waste destined for the landfill.

Published: Dec 16, 2015

A study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion shows that receiving less than seven hours a night may be linked to obesity due to an increase in secondary eating and drinking.

Published: Dec 16, 2015

Kellogg has announced new science-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets, in which it plans to cut GHG emissions by 65% across its own operations (Scope 1 and 2) and, for the first time, work with suppliers (Scope 3) to help reduce their emissions by

Published: Dec 16, 2015

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced a new measure that will improve the agency’s ability to determine the source of foodborne illnesses linked to ground beef, stopping foodborne illness outbreaks

Published: Dec 16, 2015

Frutarom Industries has signed an agreement for the purchase of 100% of the shares of Sagema GmbH of Austria and Wiberg GmbH of Germany for $130.4 million.

Published: Dec 16, 2015

Ornua, the erstwhile Irish Dairy Board, has divested its majority stake in DPI Speciality Foods, a speciality foods distributor in the US, to Chicago-based Arbor Investments.

Published: Dec 16, 2015

Tossed up onto Scottish beaches by the tonne, seaweed is finding a place at the table thanks to the fashion for foraged food. But it could also play a vital role in returning acres of abandoned farmland in Scotland to production, according to new research

Published: Dec 16, 2015

Contrary to recent headlines -- and a talk by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference -- eating a vegetarian diet could contribute to climate change.

Published: Dec 16, 2015

In tune with the Christmas and New Year season, Pernod Ricard India is offering a range of luxurious alcoholic concoctions from its portfolio.

Published: Dec 16, 2015

The size of packaged food market in India is set to witness a quantum jump to US$50 billion by 2017 from the present level of US$32 billion growing by a CAGR of 35 per cent on the back of increasing popularity and demand for ready-to-eat food, snacks as s