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Are you afraid of the potato cartel?
Sarah Gardner Jun 17, 2013
A giant grocery wholesaler is accusing a giant potato growers association of fixing prices.
Could California's humane chicken law hatch a national trend? (Map)
David Weinberg Jun 13, 2013
A battle is brewing over a California law that requires laying-hens to be given more space in the coop. Other egg-producing states want to override the law’s requirement.
Target wants to take a bite out of the organic market
Shannon Mullen Jun 10, 2013
As big-box stores like Target and Walmart compete for grocery sales, new offerings -- like organic produce -- are one way to up the ante.
Two years after the Partnership for Healthier America, have calorie counts decreased?
Gigi Douban May 30, 2013
In 2010, 16 food and beverage companies promised to reduce calories as part of the First Lady’s Partnership for a Healthier America. Two years later, how have they done?
Soon, an app to tell you when your microwave popcorn is ready
Kai Ryssdal May 29, 2013
It'll listen to the bag popping in the microwave and algorithmically tell you exactly when to take it out.
Does McDonald's have too many items on the menu?
Mitchell Hartman May 28, 2013
Fewer choices might speed up service and put the 'fast' back into 'fast food', and it just might help you enjoy your burger more.
Stricter school lunch nutrition standards reduce childhood obesity: Study
David Weinberg Apr 10, 2013
School lunch programs with stricter nutrition standards may be helping to reduce obesity in children, especially those who receive free or reduced lunches.
Corn prices plummet, will the price of Cheerios?
Stacey Vanek Smith Apr 4, 2013
Corn prices are tanking amid stuffed silos and plans for the country’s biggest planting in decades.
Sit down, eat out? Not so much.
Mitchell Hartman Mar 22, 2013
Darden Restaurants, owners of casual dining chains Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and LongHorn Steakhouse, saw profit fall 18 percent last quarter as sales slipped almost 5 percent.
China to get its own FDA
Rob Schmitz Mar 5, 2013
Public anger over unsafe food and drugs is widespread in China. The country's new leader, Xi Jinping, is setting up an agency equivalent to America's Food and Drug Administration to tackle the problem.
