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Although  “healthier” raw food diets have been all the rage recently, Brazilian scientists have found that cooked food has helped to improve the evolution of the human brain. Research findings published...

The Coles sweet snack-sized Perino tomatoes are possibly facing a match with the launch next month of Woolworths’ Sweet Solanato tomato. Both Perino tomatoes and Sweet Solanato tomatoes have a grape-shape...

US doctors at the Center for Science in the Public Interest have written an open letter to Walt Disney Co, urging the company to remove its characters from confectionary food products in the United States. General...

Some say the typical Australian “milk bar” or “corner store” has all but disappeared. Yet, new formats for convenience food shopping in Australia are doing well. There is a boom in “defined convenience...

SPC Ardmona has upset Australian peach growers with its decision to cut the amount of fruit purchased this year. SPC has said that SPC will cut its peach quota by 17 per cent due to a “significant fall”...

International financial service provider, Rabobank, has said that US retailer food brands will increase by 25 – 30 per cent within the next decade. The recent report, “What Would Apple Do? How Can...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has announced its intention to authorise a pharmaceutical industry Code of Conduct that would regulate interactions between Medicines Australia’s pharmaceutical...

Australian salmon brand, Tassal has said that it has been selected to pilot test new international performance standards on its aquaculture farms. Initiated and coordinated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF),...

Simplot’s John West has released a statement in response to the negative portrayal of it by Greenpeace in Greenpeace’s latest 2012 canned tuna guide issued last week. The Greenpeace document purports...

US consumer research company, Sterling-Rice Group has released its top ten food trends for 2013, which includes a focus on vegetable-based dishes, savoury fruit, and chefs helping the customer watch his...