Bananas deemed "too unhealthy" for monkeys If you've made a New Year's resolution to diet after your festive blow-out, here's a tip from a bunch of monkeys – avoid the bananas. Animals at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in Devon ...
Tags: health kick, unhealthy, diet
Does it really cost more to stick to a healthy diet? The answer is yes, but not as much as many people think, according to a new study. The research review combined the results of 27 studies from 10 different countries that compared the ...
Tags: healthy diet, cost of healthy diets, cost of unhealthy diets
A lot of folks complain that they're usually too busy for healthy eating, so they feel forced to stock up on fast foods, packaged soups with MSG, or do take outs and order home delivery pizzas and Chinese food with GMOs and toxic additives. ...
Tags: 7, food, kitchen, on the run
Soda taxes are back, and thank goodness. The sugary beverage industry has spent billions of dollars across the United States trying to defeat any proposal that addresses the serious health costs of the soda and energy drinks we consume, and ...
Tags: Glass, Soda Taxes
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 27, 2013. The Company reported earnings per diluted share of $0.11 for the third quarter of 2013, compared with earnings per diluted share of ...
Tags: Fresh Del Monte
Tesco, a grocery and general merchandise retailer in the UK, has revealed that it generated 28,500 tons of food waste in the first six months of the year, across its entire operations. In line with its efforts to cut food waste, the ...
Tags: Tesco, merchandise retailer
The supermarket today became the first supermarket to publish figures on food waste and announced a raft of measures to combat the problem. Key findings in the study, which tracked 25 top-selling products on their journey from farm to ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Food Waste
With the school year in full swing, fall’s arrival and the busy holiday season around the corner, Stacy’s Snacks today introduced Stacy’s Bake Shop Bakery Crisps, a sweet and savory line-up of artisan bakery bread snacks ...
Tags: Bakery Crisps, Food
Researchers from the US Department of Agriculture’s Western Regional Research Center in California have developed a new technology to provide consumers with refrigerated, packaged apple slices that last two to three weeks without ...
Tags: Apple Slices, Food
Moonshining loses the bootlegger label Water the commodity gold of 21st century? Bless the bats of agriculture The world's wine grape vines are dying — falling domino style to the inexorable spread of bug or bacteria or unknown ...
UK-based supermarket chain Morrisons has teamed up with its trading partner Global Pacific to acquire banana ripening site in Boston, Lincolnshire, from US-based Del Monte, a move which will create up to 80 new jobs. According to the ...
Cow & Gate, a leading baby feeding brand in the UK, has expanded its baby food range with the introduction of new 100% Fruit Pouches. The 100% Fruit Pouches are suitable for babies 4-6-months plus. The range is available in six varieties ...
Tags: Fruit Pouches, Food
Americans throw away up to 40 percent of their food says the Environmental Protection Agency. This not only wastes money and energy, but the food decaying in landfills also produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas. To reverse this trend, ...
Dole Europe has announced that all Dole pineapples imported to Europe will bear a newly designed hang tag - the 5 digit farm code – which will allow consumers to trace their fruit back to the farm where it was produced. The fruit can ...
Tags: Dole Europe, Traceability Platform
A seedless fruit is a fruit developed to possess no mature seeds. As consumption of seedless fruits is generally easier and more convenient, they are considered commercially valuable. Most commercially produced seedless fruits have been ...
Tags: Seedless Fruit, Fruit