Cut-throat competition between the country's supermarket giants is resulting in some of the best cheese deals seen in years, with 1kg blocks of mild, colby and edam selling for as little as $6.99.

McCormick Produce Partners Sour Cream & Chive Potato Mash - $1.89 for 40g.

Shark-fin soup is available at many of Auckland's Chinese restaurants despite a determined environmental campaign to ban the collection of fins.

A public health expert has called on the Government to regulate the amount of salt in commercial foods.

American sandwich brand Subway has just opened its 250th New Zealand store and has bullish plans for local expansion, with 20 restaurants set to open this year.

Imagine opening your fridge, discovering you're out of milk but knowing an email has been sent to your local store ordering a fresh bottle.

Here are a few of Shelley Bridgeman's favourite gripes, come and share your own.

Boutique beer maker Moa is hoping to cash in on a growing craft beer market in Canada.

Despite being widely slammed for her first attempt at writing, Pippa Middleton will give it another go, this time in a monthly food column.

Ikea has been drawn into Europe's widening food labelling scandal as authorities said they had detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labelled as beef and pork.

The likelihood of paying two or three dollars for a disappointingly stringy avocado is proving to be higher than usual this summer.

Food prices are not becoming more expensive as the increase in cost tracks the rate of inflation, an economist says.

Key intermediaries involved in the trade of horsemeat appear to have used a similar secretive network of companies to convicted arms trafficker Viktor Bout.

A doctor battling the country's obesity epidemic says the "tragically" high fruit and vegetable prices need to be forced down, and junk food prices need to hit consumers in the pocket.

Coca-Cola is recalling five of its popular drinks because there might be glass fragments in the bottles.

A caffeine overload brought on by drinking up to 10 litres of Coca-Cola a day was a contributing factor in a woman's death, a coroner has ruled.

Coca-Cola says there is not enough evidence to link the death of an Invercargill woman with her excessive Coke drinking, despite a coroner's report that found otherwise.

It is "highly unlikely" horse-flesh has been introduced into beef products illegally in New Zealand, the meat industry said yesterday as a contamination scandal widened in the UK.

"I'm getting pretty sick of Oz wine people bagging Kiwi sauvignon blanc. You don't hear people over here dissing Oz shiraz."