IBM is partnering with giant food and retail companies to track food supply chains and improve safety through blockchain technology. Among the companies declaring to run trials with them are Walmart, Nestle, Unilever, Tyson Foods, Kroger, and Dole Food Company. Blockchain, which originally started as the cryptocurrency system Bitcoin, is …

Taco Bell will be releasing a new breakfast menu item by the end of this month, proving that anything can be a taco shell. The breakfast item is the Naked Egg Taco, a fried egg taco shell filled with potato, bacon or sausage and cheese. The menu item was first …

The CEO of Flagship Food Group, Rob Holland, and Governor of New Mexico, Susan Martinez, declared that Flagship will expand their distribution facilities to the Albuquerque area. They plan on investing $3 million to serve their customers from one point of distribution, a 76,000-square foot frozen distribution warehouse. Flagship’s 505 …

Aldi supermarket has entered in a partnership with grocery delivery service company Instacart. The new pilot program serves to let customers get their products delivered to them in as little as an hour. The program will be launched in Dallas, Los Angeles and Atlanta later this month with plans of …

Beloved TV icon Oprah Winfrey joins hands with the Kraft Heinz Company to create a line of 4 nutritious soups and flavored sides named O, That’s Good! Oprah and Kraft Heinz worked together with a team of chefs to create the line without any artificial flavors or dyes and all …

Agroson’s LLC, a New York distributor, has recalled 2,483 boxes of Cavi brand maradol papayas due to possible salmonella. The papayas, grown and packed by Carica de Campeche, have been recalled as a precaution because the papayas were grown on the same farm in Mexico where other brands of papaya …

Irene B. Rosenfeld, the chief executive of Mondelez International, leaves after 11 years with the giant food company. It was announced that Mondelez’s Board of Directors has selected Dirk Van de Put, current President and CEO of McCain Foods. The succession is to become effective on November 2017 and Van …

Walmart is launching a new initiative to attract more Hispanic buyers, including changing some of the members in their leadership team. The initiative comes at a time when the arrival of recent German grocery stores, Aldi and Lidl, have raised the stakes in competition. One of the changes is Shawn …

If you walk into any grocery store these days, you will see that the prices are lower than they have been the past few years. Eggs are much cheaper. After an intense struggle with the avian influenza that affected bird flocks, farmers and suppliers are still trying to regain their …

The herbicide ingredient glyphosate was found in 10 of 11 samples of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, as reported by the Organic Consumers Association (OCA). Glyphosate is a main herbicide ingredient found in Roundup pesticide. The flavors tested were Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Peanut Butter cup, Peanut Butter cookie, Cherry Garcia, …