The Processed Food Industry’s Quest for Taste & Healthy Options
Food scientists are hard at work to help companies in the $550 billion processed-food industry to make "healthier" but tasty products, according […]
Category: Big Sugar & Big Food News
Chocolate as Health Food?
Earlier I reported that Mars, the maker of M&M’s, is backing research to show that cocoa — which most of its chocolate […]
Atkins Nutritionals Goes Belly-Up — Low Carb Still Strong
In case you’ve been sunning yourself in seclusion or burning the midnight oil, I wanted to make sure you caught this big […]
Sugary Milk: The New Soft Drink?
Milk is becoming more sugary, flavored, and even carbonated. Oh, and maybe even "cool." Or, at the least, a "more healthful alternative" […]
Junk Food Web Marketing to Kids Rises
It’s illegal to sell directly to kids online, to deceive them and to take their personal information without parental permission, but that […]
Food Marketers Fight Obesity — & Maybe Push Their Foods, Too
Some of America’s most visible food corporations, including the Coca-Cola Co., Kraft Foods, Pepsi-Co, Campbell Soup, and Welch Foods — who, of […]
Sugarcane For Biodegradable Plates? Hmm
It’s always fun to scout around the Internet, especially when you hit upon a jewel of a story. In this particular instance, […]
Uncle Sam Turns Kids Over to Big Food
If you care about what kinds of ads our nation’s kids are seeing — and how our young ones are being cleverly […]
Kellogg’s Berated For Demeaning Apples
Uh-oh. Kellogg’s has been promoting its Apple Jacks cereal in a way that ruffles the feathers of the Produce for Better Health […]
McDonald’s Reintroduces Jumbo Drinks? (Second Take)
I was really glad to see that one of my favorite health websites — always full of cutting edge information — also […]