Samantha Bonar

Oreos could be even more addictive than cocaine, at least to cookie-loving lab rats. (But just like most sensible humans, rats go for the middle first.) In a study designed to shed light on the potential addictiveness of high-fat/high-sugar foods, Connecticut College Professor Joseph Schroeder and his students found rats......

If you think you are safe eating chicken as long as it's not Foster Farms, think again. According to Consumer Reports, other major brands are processed in the same plants involved in the Foster Farms salmonella outbreak. They include Eating Right, Kirkland Signature, O Organics, Open Nature, Ralphs, Safeway Farms......

Despite an ongoing multistate outbreak, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service says it won't shut down Foster Farms' chicken plants in California that have been linked to virulent salmonella Heidelberg infections that have sickened nearly 500 people (and likely more like 14,000) in 20 states and......

Three of four arsenic drugs used in animal feed have been banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Yes, that's right -- that means that up until now, arsenic was used in animal feed. The drugs -- roxarsone, carbarsone and arsanilic acid -- were added to feed for chicken,......

Contrary to popular belief, the best hangover remedy is not Mickey D's. According to Chinese researchers, it is ... Sprite. Yes, that soda no one ever drinks. The scientists studied 57 beverages, ranging from herbal teas to soda, before concluding that the lemon-lime concoction performed the best at helping the......

What's Foster Farms' slogan again? "Always fresh, never frozen, sometimes linked to a high hospitalization rate"? An expanding salmonella outbreak tied to Foster Farms chicken involves multiple antibiotic resistant strains and a very high hospitalization rate of 42 percent, according to a food safety expert. "There are seven strains involved......

Don't let anyone ever tell you that Fox News doesn't break important stories. In an Oct. 2 exclusive headlined, "Beaver butts emit goo used in vanilla flavored foods," Fox peels back the lid on the beaver vanilla-scented butt goo scandal. (Actually they "borrowed" the story from National Geographic.) Castoreum, used......

You don't collect Social Security and you weren't planning on going to Yosemite anyway. So what do you care about the government shutdown? Well you eat food, don't you? We hope you have a nice canned-goods supply in the cupboard, because guess who just got furloughed? That's right, the food......

PBJs in childhood could protect girls from developing breast cancer later in life, according to research from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard Medical School. The study showed that young girls with a family history of breast cancer who ate peanut butter or peanuts had......

The amount of wine you drink might depend on the size of your glass and whether or not you're holding it in your hand, according to a new study. And also whether you choose red or white, Health Central reports. Researchers at Iowa State University and the Cornell University Food......