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Lean Cuisine ravioli; Credit: Nestle

Lean Cuisine Recalled Due to Glass Shards

Lean Cuisine is recalling ravioli dinners because of glass fragments found in the pasta, the Food and Drug Administration reports. The voluntary recall of Lean Cuisine Culinary Collection Mushroom Mezzaluna Ravioli comes after three consumers reported they "found small fragments of glass in the ravioli portion of the entree," parent......
The sugar-free mixer on the left may be more dangerous.; Credit: S. Bonar

Diet Mixers May Make You Drunker Faster

You may get more drunk, and faster, if you mix alcohol with diet sodas rather than mixers containing sugar, according to a new study. And you would be about 20 percent more likely to blow a positive on a Breathalyzer test. This could be particularly problematic for women, who are......
Smoked salmon; Credit: Flickr/WordRidden

[Updated] Whole Foods Recalls Smoked Salmon

Updated: 1/30 1:54 p.m. Whole Foods is recalling an additional lot code (for a total of two lot codes) of Whole Catch Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon (4 oz.), UPC code 99482 40880 0, cold smoked and sliced, because it may contain listeria. The second lot code is 7425A2297A. The......
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FTC Orders POM Wonderful to Stop Making Health Claims

POM Wonderful pomegranate juice is made from the Wonderful variety of the fruit, but that doesn't make it some wonder drug. The Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission have had enough of the company making medical claims such as that its products help reduce cholesterol, aid with erectile......
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Eating Hot Foods in Plastic Bowls May Pose Health Hazard

That Hello Kitty bowl may be adorable, but plastic dishware appears to be a very bad idea healthwise. A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. finds that eating hot food from melamine bowls can expose you to high amounts of melamine, according to Fox News. Melamine......
Influenza Sorbet; Credit: Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams

'Influenza Sorbet' Takes on Chicken Soup

Step aside, chicken soup. An Ohio-based ice cream maker has a sorbet to help with flu symptoms, ABC News reports. Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams' Influenza Sorbet contains honey, ginger, cayenne pepper and orange and lemon juice. Oh, and Maker's Mark bourbon. "My mother and grandmother made something very similar to......
A Fluffernutter made with Wonder Bread; Credit: Malcolm Bedell/From Away

Wonder Bread Is Saved, Twinkies Likely to Follow

We all knew, deep down, that Twinkies were indestructible and Wonder Bread was immortal. Following Hostess Brands' recent bankruptcy, a Georgia-based company has stepped in and purchased several of Hostess' best-known brands, along with 28 bakeries and other locations, NBC News reports. Flowers Foods, Inc., which makes the Nature's Own......