I bought this thinking it was a traditional Christmas pudding full of fruit and only discovered when I got it home that it was a chocolate pudding.

It is dearly loved by TV duo Wallace and Gromit and famous the world over, and now Wensleydale cheese has been awarded official protection by the European Union.

This Christmas we want to love food and hate waste. Check out our favourite leftover recipes and share your own idea.

Summer is here and so, too, is the sudden need for children to have frozen treats stacked in the freezer.

McDonald's says it will be open and transparent with anyone wanting to know its kitchen secrets with a new initiative Our Food, Your Questions, which launches today.

The real-life appearance of fast food doesn't have to match up with how it looks in the ads, the advertising watchdog has ruled.

That the scare turned out to be the result of a false positive test does not mitigate the need for Fonterra to up its game, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

A sugar-cured, old-fashion leg ham on the bone from a Canterbury Butchery has taken out the title of the best ham in the land.

Push for higher volumes compromising our greatest export, write Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons. "The future of NZ's dairy industry should lie in quality, not quantity."

It wasn't the first complaint about airline food, but it was definitely one of the most emphatic.

Making that ready meal look appetising on the packet requires plenty of photographic skill and maybe a little rearrangement.

Fuelling dairy cows on high-end rations created from food waste has put Auckland's EcoStock in the running for a million-dollar business prize.

So far our brave bellies have held up to the challenge, but we're only one week in. Check out the best and worst of the week.

Decried as "heart-stopping" by its creators, the Do-Cro burger sandwiches a hamburger patty and slice of processed cheese between two pieces of cronut clones.

The duplicity in our food supply stretches far wider than most of us ever imagined. All sorts of common (and not so common) foods aren’t quite what they purport to be.

This is a very old-fashioned type of product which harks back to the very British- inspired lifestyle when you would have fish paste sandwiches in your lunch box.

Buffy Gill spent years analysing some of New Zealand's major retailers and property firms for the local branch of one of the world's biggest investment banks.

Buying meat in a can is something we used to do more when it was harder to get fresh meat every day.

I recently returned from China with some "issues" in the digestive department. I self-diagnosed my problem as having a deficit of good bacteria in my gut and so scanned the supermarket shelves for a product which might change the microflora balance.

Paprika, marigold flowers, spirulina and turmeric are among the natural colours and flavours that from today will replace artificial alternatives in Tip Top icecream.

Squid are making a round trip of more than 18,000km on their way to your dinner plate - after they are caught.

I picked this up on the supermarket shelf because I had been reading a book about the Kraft product this came from, called Cheez Whiz.

I am using this jar of Strawberry Marshmallow Fluff to christen a new food category for my column called "Loud and Proud".