Life & Style Editor Nicky Park dishes up NZ's latest Food News.

Coca-Cola will launch a naturally sweetened drink with a third less sugar and calories than its regular cola as part of an industry wide effort to tackle obesity.

Goodman Fielder will spend $27m to expand its Christchurch UHT milk plant, giving it additional capacity to meet increased demand in Asia.

Two Countdown supermarkets will soon stand just 500m or so apart at Westgate, Auckland.

An investigation is under way after a 2-year-old girl nearly choked on two rusty metal rings while eating a McDonald's cheeseburger.

Uribe Garza is still described by some fellow Mexicans as the "Combination Lock" man. By one measure he was actually as many as seven men in one.

Popular ethnic restaurants, catering companies, sushi shops and butchers are among nearly 90 Auckland eateries with below par food hygiene.

Alexandra a tiny sub region of Central Otago has a number of the country's smallest producers who are making delightful wines that are well worth seeking out.

A brand new burger joint, new look chicken joint and a boutique wine festival are all on Nicky Park's radar this week.

Ponsonby’s Golden Dawn bar has been voted the city’s best in the latest hospitality awards.

The French elite may scorn McDonald's for what they see as an economic and gastronomic horror in the same bun, but citizens in a town in northern France have taken to the streets to demand a branch of the US fast food chain.

In a massive blow to our Aussie mates, NZ brews have taken out prized positions on the podium at the Australian International Beer Awards this week.

Scientists reveal complex combination of chemicals that make the best foamy head.

Hard to believe, but it was only 40 years ago that New Zealand's first sauvignon blanc was produced by brothers Ross and Bill Spence of Matua Valley, West Auckland.

A person might think that a lifetime of indulging in ice cream was all that is needed to qualify you as an expert of the sweet treat.

I was alerted to sweet and sour meals by an article in the Sunday Times which found that a sweet and sour ready meal had more sugar in it than a chocolate bar and many others were extremely high in sugar.

Our love affair with pinot noir shows no sign of disappearing and nor should it, with such great wines from diverse locations.

McDonald's Chief Executive Don Thompson, defending the fast-food chain after worker protests this week, said its restaurants pay a fair wage.

New Zealand foodies have taken out culinary royalty like Jamie Oliver, Neil Perry and Oprah Winfrey's personal chef to win at the world's biggest cookbook awards.

A new McDonald's character named Happy is inspiring a different emotion among Twitter users: fear.

Selling some foods without "best before" labels could save millions of dollars and reduce the huge amount of food thrown away each year.

EU is to scrap "best-before" dates on long life food packaging as a measure to stop millions of tons of edible produce being thrown away every year.

Restaurant reviewers should strive to eat unnoticed but sometimes you have to accept your cover is blown.

The shellfish known as black gold in New Zealand faces a whitewash to make it look more like the rest of the world's stock.

Red velvet cake has been around for many years and in the old days it used to get its deep, red colour from beetroot juice.

If we ripped up the wage floor, would pay for low-skill workers actually fall all that much? It's hard to say.