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Each year Men's Health recognizes the best packaged foods for men in their annual list of "Best Foods For Men" and once again, Eggland's Best has been honored. This year Eggland's Best Organic eggs have been awarded the title of "Best Eggs" in the Dairy category.

In a study of lunches brought from home at elementary and middle schools in the Houston area, researchers at the USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital found that the lunches did not meet National School Lunch Program guidelines. Their report appears in JAMA Pediatrics.

As public schools strive to follow new national guidelines in offering breakfast and lunch to their students, a nutrition leader who helped develop those guidelines provides perspective on a new study analyzing the other lunches—those that children bring from home.

Advent International, one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors, today announced that it has acquired Noosa Yoghurt, LLC, a fast-growing leader in the yoghurt category. Noosa’s executive team remains in place and has retained a significant minority ownership position in the company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

To put the market for kids' food and beverage in context, it is estimated that retail sales of all food and beverages in the U.S. will reach $639 billion with kids' food and beverages accounting for roughly 3.5% of sales. In 2013, total value of kids' food and beverage is estimated to be worth $23.2 billion.

The event convened top experts to explore the current American diet and implications of the nation's foremost nutrition policy document, and was made possible in part by a grant from Dannon, the leading maker of yogurt.

Qualitas Health announced the launch of the first consumer products based upon Almega PL, marking the company’s transition from research and development into successful commercialization of the company’s premium algal omega-3 oil.

After months of hard work, the newest cohort of innovative food and beverage start-ups in the AccelFoods program will present their progress to tastemakers, industry insiders and potential investors at AccelFoods' Demo Day on December 3rd in New York.

Fuji Food Products, Inc., a fresh food manufacturing division of Meruelo Group and provider and distributor of pre-packaged sushi, announced a new manufacturing facility in South Elgin, Ill. and its expansion in the Midwestern United States.

Gardein, the award winning plant-based protein brand will be joining Pinnacle Foods Inc. under the Birds Eye Frozen Division.