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Big supermarkets gain fresh food market share at the expense...

The then listed National Foods lost 30 per cent of its value, or $280 million, in a matter of weeks as the market worked out the processor was the obvious loser from lower milk prices. Dairy farms are generally not listed -- they just go [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

One sixth of 'fresh', 'organic' or 'handmade' food is fake

Of 180 outlets checked by food standards officials, 30 were found to be charging customers more by making false claims about the health value of the food they served. Investigators found that the “hand-made potato cakes” [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Fresh Produce On Every Corner

THE Healthy Corner Store Initiative began as a project of The Food Trust, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that has grown from teaching nutritional cooking classes at the Reading Terminal Market in 1992, into a formidable organization with [...]

Posted On : Feb, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Dreaming about farm-fresh produce from California

When I decided to return for a few days in January to my native California, I blocked out a Saturday morning to go to the Davis Farmers Market, one of 300 year-round, rain or shine certified markets held throughout the state. Th [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Fresh food prices up at least 20%

The surge in fresh food prices just before Lunar New Year is a common occurrence, but prices have gone up by at least 20 per cent across the board compared to the same period last year. At a Chinatown wet market, one butcher said prices [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Walgreen to bring fresh food to food deserts

The drugstore chain has already added fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and a variety of other fare to 10 stores in parts of Chicago where grocery stores are hard to find. Executives at the company's annual meeting on Wednesday said they [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

The Growing Fresh Food Movement

In Spring 2010, renowned British chef Jamie Oliver exposed millions of Americans to the poor eating habits and weight-related illnesses in Huntington, West Virginia, which has the unfortunate distinction of being one of the unhealthiest [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Easy food super fresh

Turks place much emphasis on the presentation of food. One Turkish saying goes, “First appeal to the eyes, then fill the stomach.”Long ago many of us Westerners discovered the many advantages of frozen foods. But it has been [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Winter market still has fresh food

When Manhattan resident Susan Eby headed to her weekend home in Gardiner Saturday, she took a detour to New Paltz's Historic District.Eby wasn't there to learn about the village's history. She was there for the food. On the s [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Supermarket cakes and quiches used toxic eggs

The dioxins, which have the potential to cause cancer, originated in Germany and have raised fresh questions about British food labelling and this country's reliance on food imports. Fourteen tons of the contaminated liquid egg [...]

Posted On : Jan, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Food prices set to soar

Flooding has destroyed crops in three key food growing regions of Queensland and John Cummings from the National Association of Retail Grocers says WA growers will struggle to meet national demand. Mr Cummings says pumpkin prices ha [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Fresh food shortage tipped

FRUIT and vegetables may be off the menu for Central Queensland residents soon with stocks running out and prices forecast to soar. Melon-producer Chinchilla is flooded, the heartland of tomatoes and mangos, Bundaberg, is isolated, and C [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Eat healty, eat fresh

All natural foods. Nothing processed. It's nothing new. As a matter of fact it's what doctors have been wanting you do to for years and now fresh is the latest diet craze. We're talking about fruits, vegetab [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Breast Cancer Avoidance trough Healthy Food Habits

Statistics showing that women in the US have higher risks of developing breast cancer than women in China or Japan and that breast cancer risks for Asian women that migrate in the US increases over generations, becoming similar to that o [...]