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

Easter egg manufacturers are likely making more of a profit this year than in Easters past, an analyst says.

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.

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.

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.

Frozen lasagnes sold by British supermarkets contained up to 100 per cent horse meat and are being tested for a banned equine drug, food officials have revealed.

It's always interesting to see how corporations and governments respond to a food safety crisis, writes Sue Kedgley.

Scientists say they have seen the future of genetically modified foods and have concluded that it is orange or, more precisely, golden.

Marmite lovers should find out next month the date for its return to supermarket shelves.

Food watchdogs in Britain have launched an urgent inquiry into beef produce after a number of products were found to contain horse meat.

Increasingly consumers don’t connect their food and where it comes from.

Despite the Marmite drought, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has reported a lift in annual sales for its New Zealand-based businesses, which include Sanitarium.

Now we all know he's famous for adventuring around the world and eating bugs but guess what?