Green Leaf Signature Salads include varieties such as Korean Kimchi Salad and Whistling Dixie Cole Slaw

General Mills knows consumers want to eat whole grains, but the preparation can be intimidating and the taste is often times lackluster.

Capitalizing on the Greek yogurt food trend, Litehouse Foods, Sandpoint, Idaho, created OPA, a retail line of refrigerated Greek Style Yogurt salad dressings.

Chiquita Brands North America, Charlotte, N.C., earned one of the National Restaurant Association’s 2014 Food and Beverage Innovations Awards for new Gourmet Cafe Creative Classics from Fresh Express.

Generation Y, also known as the Millennial generation, can be a difficult group to quantify.

The new reduced-sodium, reduced-fat dressings contain no syrup.

Don’t scoff: Burgers and pizza may be the first things to come to mind when the topic of craveable foods is brought up, but salads can register on consumers’ “crave-worthy” radar, too.

He replaces Chris Lock who retired on March 21, 2014, after 20 years with the company.

Restaurants offering soup and salad now face considerable competition from the retail segment.

The acquisition is valued at approximately $600 million.