You’d think any attempt to lower food prices – even Fast Food menu prices – would be met with positive reviews. But McDonald’s new McValue Menu is getting serious backlash from fans. It’s all about ‘the good old days’, and 99-cent burgers…Read More →
Everybody in the pasta business is getting into ‘enhanced’ Mac & Cheese! The latest entrants are polemically opposite in heritage but dead-centre in the noodle market. Chef Boyardee and Buldak are both launching new ‘breakout’ products…Read More →
If you thought lower prices were a hopeless quest – like the Holy Grail – you may be in luck. A new survey reveals that smaller, inde-pendent grocery stores are far from extinct. In fact, independents still account for almost half of US grocery sales…Read More →
Soaring cocoa prices have driven chocolate products (almost?) out of the average con-sumer’s reach. And that trend has triggered a burgeoning interest in alt-coca products. And that’s why food processing giant Cargill has launched NextCoa…Read More →
It’s about time. Beef Producers have been defending their soaring prices with vague economic ref-erences. Now, the US Justice Department is taking affirmative action. The DOJ has launched an antitrust investigation into the US Beef industry…Read More →
A Biblical saying cautions that, “Man cannot live by bread alone.” And alt-meat pioneer Beyond has learned it can’t live by plant-based meat substitutes alone. Beyond Foods is branching out into protein drinks as part of its corporate turnaround program…Read More →
The anti-UPF advocates are determined to make processed foods manufacturers pay for the damage they’ve done to the US populat-ion. A class action lawsuit is seeking (US)$1 billion in damages from 12 makers of UPFs for ‘tortious and unlawful conduct’…Read More →
I love cabbage. I make so secret of it. That’s why at least half a dozen cabbage recipes pop up in this space every year… But I continue to hear folks tell me they hate the stuff. Well… Vogue (no less!) has declared 2026 is the ‘Year of the Cabbage’!Read More →