Only one in four children’s cereals would meet the voluntary nutritional guidelines proposed by the federal Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children, according to a review of popular brands conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG).
Another study underscoring the importance of the sunshine vitamin has found that low vitamin D levels in obese children could be a precursor to the development of type 2 diabetes.
Quorn, a U.K.-based food company specializing in meatless meals -- all of which, until now, contained eggs -- just introduced its first-ever all vegan product, which is now available exclusively in the United States.
A new type of sugar developed by a team of researchers in Australia seems to be what is needed to keep a human heart healthy, according to new research on cardiac failure.
A red dye derived from lichens that has been used for centuries to color fabrics and food appears to reduce the abundance of small toxic protein aggregates in Alzheimer’s disease.
Kraft Foods Inc., which is splitting into two, named Irene Rosenfeld as chairman and chief executive officer of the Global Snacks Co. as well as Anthony Vernon as CEO and John Cahill as chairman of the North American Grocery Co.