I was sitting in a restaurant in Urumqi, in northern China, enjoying the spicy food smells from the kitchen, when a plaintiff Australian voice quavered across the room, "I want steak, eggs and chips."

Nekta transforms fruit into everything from drinks, to a fat replacement for baking.

Everyone knows the feeling - you see an inflated price and think, "I can't believe it's that expensive".

Trade deal boosts NZ's profile in Malaysia, writes Fiona Acheson

The makers of one of NZ's best-known brands of pie were justified in sacking a worker who stored cockroaches in his locker, the ERA says.

It's music to the ears of shoppers - competition is forcing the two big supermarket chains to keep a lid on prices.

Consumers are not wiling to pay fo sustainable products.

Higher winter vegetable prices helped push food prices up 1.6pc in July.

Russia last week banned grain exports for the rest of the year after a severe drought and wildfires destroyed 20 per cent of its wheat crop.

Links with an established food company help an Indian cuisine specialist take on the Australian market.

A mother says she's choking on a supermarket's response after her son spat out a rusty pin in a bite of chicken.

Sheep and beef farming could all but disappear in New Zealand if "structural issues" causing profits to drop are allowed to continue, says Federated Farmers.

Pesticide residue in NZ fruit and veg are at worst ever levels, say pro-organic food lobbyists, with one saying new figures "are the worst I have ever seen".