Cured meats such as biltong and jerky are becoming increasingly popular because they give you a low-calorie meal of protein which is low in fat and carbohydrate free.

Everyone wants to eat coconut at the moment. I haven't reviewed coconut water because it's basically coconut and water, so not much to say there.

I am a big fan of any food producer that attempts to replace sugar with a natural alternative.

Life & Style Editor Nicky Park serves up the latest in food and booze news around New Zealand. Get your serve.

A tiny rural Waikato town wants to establish itself as the "North Island's premier food technology hub".

New Zealand snack food maker Griffin's Foods has been sold to one of Asia's biggest food companies for $700 million.

Everyone knows about carbs these days. People go carb-free in an effort to lose weight, and athletes carb-load before a big event.

I bring raw chicken into the house about twice a year, writes Shelley Bridgeman. And when I do, my kitchen goes into virtual lockdown.

This dip was mentioned to me by a friend who had bought it thinking it was vegetarian.

Andrew and Natalie Vivian like to joke that their chilled ready meal business, Tasty Pot, is their fourth child.

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

I know I'm not the only parent to stand for ages in the cereal aisle of the supermarket looking for a healthy breakfast for my family.

There's so much delicious moving and shaking around New Zealand's culinary scene we wanted to dish it all up in to one big bite of tasty food news.

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.

I was alerted to these by my daughter, who had them at a friend's house and said they were "yum". I've got nothing against teenage girls snacking on chicken - protein is good.

I do love it when I'm shopping for something to include in this column and a reader offers to help me out.

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

Meat lover Brendan Manning visits one of the country's best butcher to witness the process of breaking down the beast.

Dutch style cheeses have taken out the top awards at this year's New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards.

This product falls under the "why on earth is it here?" category.