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".

Jars of sauces like this can mean that dinner is on the table in a matter of minutes. Just fry some meat, at the sauce and heat until hot.

When I reviewed Super Juice and found it had more sugar in it then Coca Cola, the reaction was one of shock as people absorbed the knowledge that something we always thought was healthy - fruit juice - can contain such a mother load of sugar.

My mission this week was to find instant noodles that my daughter could eat because, apparently, being the daughter of the "processed food lady" is boring, limiting and completely unfair.

The debate over importing Australian tomatoes which have been zapped with radiation has been driven by fierce trans-Tasman rivalry rather than legitimate food safety concerns, growers across the ditch say.

Organisers of a red meat industry meeting in Christchurch tomorrow are seeking a written mandate from farmers, including a commitment to a possible new entity.

Fonterra will launch its own infant formula brand in China this year as it looks to grab a slice of the booming market for the product in the Asian superpower.

Susan Edmunds answers your consumer questions.

Wendyl Nissen discovers that there is more sugar in this 'super juice' per 250ml than there is in Coke.

Each week, Wendyl Nissen takes a packaged food item and decodes what the label tells you about its contents

Organic jelly beans. Organic potato chips. Organic vodka. "Organic" is a term perceived as healthier than conventional products, no matter what they are

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

A Henderson tofu maker has become the first Auckland employer to sign up to the living wage campaign, promising to pay its six factory workers at least $18.40 an hour within a year.

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

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.

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.