The introduction of self-checkout lanes to American supermarkets 25 years ago created a big problem for confectionary companies. That’s because the lanes lack shelving for impulse purchases like the bubble gum, mints, and candy bars that typically line the cashier aisles.
Do you have front teeth? Can you move your fingers and thumbs?
A team of Canadian researchers has published a new report suggesting that teen drinking has a much bigger impact on youth obesity rates than once thought.
A team of researchers in Finland has successfully created food using electricity.
It’s not just an unassuming carton in the supermarket dairy aisle. At least, not anymore.
Facing tepid growth in the US market, Starbucks has announced it will step away from its flagship tea business, and shift focus to China.
American consumers love breakfast, and they increasingly want access to it all the time. According to market research firm NPD Group, US breakfast and morning snack consumption is slated to grow by 5% in the next few years, faster than the US population.
Of all the changes announced in the past few weeks by the Campbell Soup Co., the most revealing one is this: the company has hired a former Amazon executive to lead a new e-commerce division.
Beyoncé sings about it, Hillary Clinton talks about it, and people are increasingly scooping it off US grocery-store shelves. Hot sauce is enjoying an uninterrupted five-year sales streak.
A new company is looking to plant vegan vending machines in strategic locations across the US, and it’s got more than $2.2 million in seed money to get started.
The Chinese are not fans of genetically modified (GM) food.
Blue Apron is having a rotten summer.
It has become a recurring nightmare for Chipotle Mexican Grill. A stomach bug that just won’t go away.
Dirty Bones has restaurants along Kensington, Carnaby Street, and Shoreditch in London—but its newest location in Soho stands out with a crafty marketing strategy designed to encourage customers to Instagram their food.
There are a lot of surprising things to know about the Silicon Valley food startup Hampton Creek—for instance, that it’s valued at more than $1 billion, that the American egg industry has been very afraid of it, that Bill Gates is a fan, and that its biggest-selling product is vegan mayo.
Cold brew—which is steeped for 20 hours and infused with nitrogen, then poured from a spigot into a glass—has a smooth feel and Guinness-like bubbles. That’s made it popular with coffee snobs and with chains like Starbucks, which has developed different flavors, including spiced vanilla sweet cream, and can charge more for them.
Spraying chemicals on crops to provide protection from weeds and pests has become an essential tool for American farmers growing the world’s food. In the last several years, that practice has hit snags, as concern over whether an active ingredient in those chemicals—glyphosate—can be tied to cancer in humans.
LeBron James loves pizza. In fact, the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball star loves it so much he was willing to walk away from a $15 million endorsement deal with McDonald’s to support his favorite pizza joint.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has written to the US Food and Drug Administration asking it to look into Coco Loko, a caffeine-laced inhalable food product that’s marketed to consumers as raw cacao snuff—but which he fears is being used as an easy means for getting high.
The number of acres on which US farmers grow wheat has hit its lowest point since the government first began recording such data in 1919.
Update (10am ET): Citing a misleading sentence in a statement by King Estate Winery, Amazon says it is not developing NEXT brand wine. NEXT is the first brand to be developed from conception (by the winemaker) and released on Amazon Wine.
Twelve years ago, Hamdi Ulukaya introduced Greek yogurt to the American market, which disrupted the very settled yogurt industry and ended with Chobani becoming the top-selling US brand. Now, he’s making the same type of yogurt he worked so hard to overthrow.
The time is ripe for Jeff Bezos to work his business acumen on an area of the US food system that’s been slowly growing for years: organic food. And with his purchase of Whole Foods Market earlier this month, he’ll have even more reason to try and convince US farmers to join him.
The maker of vegan mayonnaise has been working on getting lab-made meat onto dinner tables everywhere. It’s just that nobody knew about it.
