Samantha Bonar

In between plying the world with pollution and the flu, the Chinese have done something very useful for humanity: They've come up with the first test that's able to detect GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in food. Consumers are increasingly freaked the eff out wary about bioengineered foods, and there are...

Oh no they dinut. The Hershey Co. announced Wednesday that it's introducing a line of chocolate spreads, including a hazelnut variety. Could it have anything to do with the fact that sales of Nutella have tripled in the U.S. over the last five years, to $240.4 million? Nah. Hershey's is...

Foster Farms says it has "voluntarily and temporarily" closed its Livingston, Calif. chicken-processing plant after it was shut down by the U.S. Department of Agriculture last Wednesday and then reopened Saturday. The company said in a statement that it is "exercising vigilance" and dedicating additional time to make sure its...

Updated, Jan. 14, 4:20 p.m.: Foster Farms says it has "voluntarily and temporarily" closed its Livingston, Calif. chicken-processing plant after it was shut down by the USDA last Wednesday and then reopened Saturday. The company said in a statement that it is "exercising vigilance" and dedicating additional time to make sure...

Women who eat nuts while pregnant actually lower the risk of nut allergies in their kids - despite what the medical establishment has told them for the last decade - according to a large new study. When pregnant women ate nuts more than five times a month, their children had...

Don't have a meltdown, but Kraft has announced that it is running low on Velveeta. Mysteriously, the company has not given a reason for the apparent shortage of the velvety cheese-like product. Are they hoping for a Sriracha-like run on the runny yellow "food" stuff? The twits are already calling...

General Mills is taking the GMO out of Cheerios. The cereal maker says it will stop using genetically modified ingredients in its original Cheerios cereal, which it markets heavily to moms. The whole oats in 73-year-old Cheerios have never contained GMOs, but now the manufacturer will use non-GMO pure cane......

The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has lots of little hidden provisions that are slowly emerging to try to force you to be healthy. One is a requirement that vending machines list calorie counts for all of their Cheez-Its, Nilla Wafers, alleged "trail mix" and other nutritional detritus that you......

Eating a tomato-rich diet may reduce postmenopausal women's breast cancer risk, according to a new study. Researchers at Rutgers University tested tomato-heavy vs. soy-heavy diets on 70 postmenopausal women. For the first 10 weeks, the women ate a diet full of tomatoes and tomato-based products. They had to consume a......

In a move sure to set the culinary world and classy guys everywhere reeling, Darden has announced that it will either sell or spin off its Red Lobster restaurants. Adding to the devastation, the company, which also runs Olive Garden and other fine-dining establishments, said it will suspend the opening......