MGP Ingredients Inc. (MGPI) reported financial results for the second quarter and six months ended December 31, 2011.

Chiquita Brands released financial and operating results for 2011, reporting full-year comparable income of $38 million and GAAP income of $57 million on net sales of $3.1 billion.

J.M. Smucker Co. said its fiscal third-quarter net income dropped 11% as it struggled to manage higher costs and sold less of its procts.

Hain Celestial Group Inc. said fiscal second-quarter net income rose 23%.

ConAgra Foods said fiscal second-quarter net income fell nearly 15%, as high food costs continued to pressure results.

Dean Foods Company reported a loss of $8.39 per diluted share, as compared to third quarter 2010 earnings of $0.13 per diluted share.

MGP Ingredients Inc. (MGPI) announced operating results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011.

A new national study of eating out and income shows that fast-food dining becomes more common as earnings increase from low to middle incomes, weakening the popular notion that fast-food should be blamed for higher rates of obesity among the poor.

Fast food alone cannot be blamed for high obesity rates among people with low incomes, according to a new UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research study.

Dunkin' Brands Group Inc. reported results for the quarter ended June 25, 2011.