Clif Bars are ‘loaded with added sugar,’ claims lawsuit
Clif Bar is the latest high-profile brand to be targeted in a wave of lawsuits alleging manufacturers are adding "excessive" amounts of sugar to products marketed to health-conscious consumers.
Archives for April 30, 2018
Habit meal delivery business on hold as testing and nutrition plan components ramp up
Habit personalized nutrition CEO: 'We're not just biology-based, we're behavior-based'
Personalized nutrition platform Habit was originally billed as "food company, not just a recommendation engine." However, delivery of customized fresh prepared meals based on its dietary advice – trialed in the Bay Area last year – is on hold until the...
Popped water lily seeds offer an even-better-for-you alternative to popcorn, says start-up Taali
Ready-to-eat popcorn is a posterchild of the better-for-you snack movement, but the co-founders of start-up Taali Foods think they can do even better with launch of a line of popped and roasted water lily seeds, which pack more protein and nutrients than...
Scapegoating sugar over-simplifies diet-related illnesses & clouds the solution, experts suggest
As public enemy No. 1, sugar often is portrayed online as “toxic” or as “poisoning our bodies,” but this characterization is “a complete … web myth,” that oversimplifies the cause of diet related chronic diseases and doesn’t take into account the...
Smithfield Foods fined for noise and smell offences
US meat processor Smithfield Foods has been fined following a trial over alleged damages caused by noise and smell from one of its farms.