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... overweight chinese youth have a greater intake of vegetables, and a lower intake of sweets and fast food than did those who were not overweight, recent research suggests ... under the survey, researchers measured dietary intake during the last month by food frequency items ... five food items were included in the current analyses to assess the consumption of different foods ... this included vegetable intake (fresh or cooked vegetables), fruit intake (fresh fruits including fruit juice), sweets intake (desserts, ice cream, candy, or soda), snack intake (potato chips, corn chips, and tortilla chips), and fast food intake (mcdonald’s, kfc, pizza hut etc)

... children with greater exposure to tv commercials are more responsive to food promotion messages than children with lower advertising exposure, according to new research ... the research, published in pediatrics, examined the food preferences of a group of 281 children aged six to 13 years old, finding that children who watch adverts for unhealthy food on television are more likely to want to eat high-fat and high-sugar foods, irrespective of branding ... our studies highlight that there are global connections between advertising, food preferences and consumption,” said lead author emma boyland, from the university of liverpool ... “these findings also have implications for the regulation of television food advertising to children ... a 9pm watershed should be introduced so that children are not exposed to high fat, high sugar and high salt food advertising during popular family viewing,” she said ... after each showing the children were given lists of various food items, both branded and unbranded, and asked what they would like to eat

... private-label food is here to stay in the us, according to recent research that found that almost 45% of consumers are purchasing more own-label products than before the economic slowdown ... according to a survey released by alixpartners today (13 june), nearly 45% of consumers say the shaky economy has motivated them to continue to consider and ultimately purchase more private-label and other lower-priced food items ... “the american consumer is staunchly committed to value and is more open to private-label and other less-expensive food products than ever before,” said alixpartners’ consumer products practice head and managing director david garfield ... “consumers’ uncertainty about the us economy and their personal economic situations, coupled with food- and commodity-price volatility, creates an environment of both challenges and opportunities for food-makers across the board ... ” the research found that consumer consideration of private-label products is significant across all major food categories including dairy, frozen foods, fresh produce, flour, ambient products and refrigerated meat ... price and quality remain the most important considerations for consumers considering private-label items, with more than 60% polled in the alixpartners survey saying that price is the most important factor ... it also found that us consumers have a clear perception of the cost savings from buying own label, estimating an accurate average of 20% cost savings across food categories

... bogof’s have increasingly come under attack from other quarters in recent years, most notably after the the department for environment, food and rural affairs (defra) published the report ‘food matters: one year on’ in mid 2009 ... this suggested replacing two-for-one deals on short-life, perishable food items with half-prices offers to cut uk consumer food waste, which the waste & resources action programme (wrap), which partners food businesses to cut waste, estimated at around 8 ... a wrap spokesman said the organisation had been discussing with retailers how food is sold on promotion, "in order to make it easy for consumers to take full advantage of offers, while reducing risk of unnecessary waste", but no research had yet linked different types of promotion with food waste

... ” volume sales slump while value and tertiary supermarket brands introduced since the recession appeal to cash-strapped consumers, key note said higher prices generally had lifted sales by value in 2010, although volume sales fell as consumers curbed spending on non-essential food items ... in addition, healthy eating, promoted heavily by the food standards agency’s drive to cut fat, sugar, salt under the terms of the responsibility deal, has seen brands such as weightwatchers and go ahead! expand rapidly, with tertiary brands cashing in

... com website, where customers nationwide are already able to purchase non-food items for home delivery, consumers in the san jose area can order groceries and consumables to be delivered to their homes ... indeed, morrisons stated that its investment in freshdirect, which ceo dalton philips described as \"a highly successful and profitable food retailer with a track record of terrific customer service\", was in no small part intended to assist its own moves into online retailing in the uk

... it asked them to estimate how often they ate 124 food items ... "nothing beats the original food," he said

... senate voted 73 - 25 to pass the fda food safety modernization act, also known as s ... though the bill has not yet officially been signed into law, several states, including wyoming and maine, are gearing up to challenge parts or all of it with the passage of their own food freedom bills ... john eklund (r-cheyenne) recently reintroduced the wyoming food freedom act, according to a recent report in the casper star-tribune ... though the bill is a slightly toned down version of a previous food freedom bill that died in committee, it provides some exemptions from s ... this includes food items like produce grown on farms or in backyard gardens ... whether the issue is health care, the right to bear arms, food freedom, or even simple freedom of speech, americans are beginning to wake up to the reality that they simply do not have to take what the federal government is dishing out

... recommendations to improve food labelling law and policy in australia and new zealand are contained in a report presented to federal, state and territory governments today ... dr neal blewett, chair of the independent review of food labelling law and policy, presented the report, ‘labelling logic’, to the parliamentary secretary for health and ageing, catherine king ... some of the key recommendations include: that information on food labels be presented in a clear and comprehensible manner to enhance understanding across all levels of the population ... that the food safety elements on the food label be reviewed with the aim to maximise the effectiveness of food safety communication ... that there be more effective monitoring and enforcement of the existing requirements in the food standards code to provide mandatory warning and advisory statements and allergen declarations on packages of food not for retail sale, foods for sale at restaurants and other food outlets, foods from mobile food vendors and vending machines, and foods for catering purposes ... that the voluntary incidental trace allergen labelling system be explored as a possible supplementary model to manage food label declarations relating to the adventitious presence of allergens in foods ... that where sugars, fats or vegetable oils are added as separate ingredients in a food, the terms ‘added sugars’ and ‘added fats’ and/or ‘added vegetable oils’ be used in the ingredient list as the generic term, followed by a bracketed list (e ... that mandatory declaration of all trans fatty acids above an agreed threshold be introduced in the nutrition information panel if manufactured trans fatty acids have not been phased out of the food supply by january 2013 ... that declaration of energy content of standardised food items on the menu/menu boards or in close proximity to the food display or menu be mandatory in chain food service outlets and on vending machines

... the organisation said that its industry donors have dug deep in response to a call for extra supplies and, so far, have committed 400,000 kilograms of food and groceries, worth close to $3 million, with more pledges coming in daily ... until the flood water threatened its morningside warehouse close to the brisbane river, foodbank queensland had been working to disseminate food and other essential items to welfare agencies in those country queensland areas first affected by floods ... in the meantime, the charity said the focus remains on the logistical challenge of facilitating the delivery of the vital food industry’s donations from around australia to queensland for distribution ... foodbank said it was thankful for the offer of ‘priority transport’ from emergency management queensland, to ensure that the food industry convoy makes it through the road closures to the foodbank warehouse as soon as operations are able to recommence ... “we are a relatively small warehouse and the total amount of food that’ll need to pass through here to meet demand will far outstrip our capacity at any one time ... “we have been absolutely overwhelmed by the generosity of the food industry in this time of desperate need – we put out a ‘cry for help’ to our donor partners and within a few days had been offered sufficient key staple food and grocery items to fill over 40 trucks ... ” foodbank’s list of national donors features a roll-call of many of australia’s food and supermarket giants - including cadbury, coca-cola amatil, spc aardmona, schweppes, green’s, sunrice, unilever, kellogg’s, kraft, mars, nestle, mccain, simplot, golden circle, heinz, lenard’s, dairy farmers, fonterra, goodman fielder, woolworths, coles, metcash, aldi, menora foods, patties, smith’s, sara lee, sanitarium, proctor and gamble, george weston, campbell arnott’s, rinoldi, nutricia, ferrero and sugar australia ... people wishing to support foodbank’s effort can donate non-perishable food items and funds or volunteer to assist in foodbank warehouses around australia