Chuao Chocolatier now offers the Pop Corn Pop bar. Pop Corn Pop blends creamy milk chocolate with puffed whole grains, toasted corn chips, popping candy and a sprinkle of sea salt. Chuao Chocolatier only combines all-natural ingredients with its proprietary blend of premium, ethically sourced chocolate from Venezuela.  
SRP: $4.99.

Good Tastes Kitchen launched frozen macaroni and cheese meals that are all natural, GMO free and gluten free. The Four Cheese variety offers rice noodles in a sauce of cheddar, Monterey jack, parmesan and ricotta in a crust. The Caramelized Onion and Herb variety incorporates cheddar, Monterey jack and gorgonzola plus onions and herbs.

A research project is underway to assess the potential for alternatives to antibiotic treatments for fire blight disease, which afflicts apple and pear orchards. Funded by The Organic Center, the project will be published as a report written for farmers and will review methods for controlling fire blight holistically.

Monrovia, CA—Naked Juice Co., owned by PepsiCo, will be removing the term “all natural” from its fruit and vegetable juice smoothie products, after it chose to settle a class-action lawsuit for $9 million. By claiming its products are all natural and free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the lawsuit alleged,...

A federal judge put the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the spot recently, asking the agency to decide whether genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can be present in food products labeled “natural.” The request from U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers put on hold a class action suit against...

Phoenix, AZ—Sprouts Farmers Market, which operates over 150 stores and was the 2013 WholeFoods Retailer of the Year, officially set the terms of its initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The company seeks to pay down $247.6 million in debt and other costs through the sale of 18.5...

Get up to speed with all that today’s retail technology has to offer. Often, we don’t know what we need to make our lives more convenient, until some new technology arrives to show us. People got by without the Internet fairly well in the pre-digital era, but can you imagine...

Understand the major food and beverage categories aimed at athletes and weekend warriors. Part Three of a Five-Part Series on Sports Nutrition On product labels, in testimonials and in marketing literature, we often see phrases like, “…for the active lifestyle.” It’s trendy marketing vernacular, sure, but when it comes to...

Boulder, CO-based GoodBelly has redesigned the packaging for its line of family-sized quarts of probiotic juice. The new package is predominantly black and is designed to emphasize the product more clearly.   New Seasons Market, a 12-store chain in the Portland, OR-Vancouver, WA area and 2009 WholeFoods Retailer of...

Washington, D.C.—The Non-GMO Project Verified label, which has become more pervasive in recent months, has been approved for meat and liquid egg products by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It becomes the first non-genetically modified organism (non-GMO) label...