The food texture market is expected to reach $11,840.8 million by 2018.

The NPD Group finds tap water is one of the fastest growing beverages ordered at U.S. restaurants, while revenue-generating beverages have been declining over the past five years.

The nutrition label on the front of a box of cereal, a frozen dinner or any other food should be as quick and easy to read as the Energy Star label on a clothes washer or an air-conditioner, according to a study requested by Congress.

British health officials say the country needs to slash 5 billion calories from its collective daily diet to slow the obesity epidemic.

Food prices are likely to become more volatile in coming years, increasing the risk that more poor people in import-dependent countries will go hungry, the United Nations said in an annual report on food insecurity.