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

Food, these days, has become less about eating and more about ethics and environmental concerns, Shelley Bridgeman says.

Cream cheese is a great alternative to butter on toast, especially if you are teaming it with salmon or my latest food craze, sliced fresh strawberries.

The fight against sugar has begun, with high-profile scientists and doctors calling for governments and food industries to cut the sugar content of food and drinks by up to 30%.

It's a frightening figure - 11 per cent of early deaths in NZ are due to poor nutrition and obesity. So what can be done to reverse the trend?

I bought this thinking it was a traditional Christmas pudding full of fruit and only discovered when I got it home that it was a chocolate pudding.

It is dearly loved by TV duo Wallace and Gromit and famous the world over, and now Wensleydale cheese has been awarded official protection by the European Union.

This Christmas we want to love food and hate waste. Check out our favourite leftover recipes and share your own idea.

Summer is here and so, too, is the sudden need for children to have frozen treats stacked in the freezer.

McDonald's says it will be open and transparent with anyone wanting to know its kitchen secrets with a new initiative Our Food, Your Questions, which launches today.

The real-life appearance of fast food doesn't have to match up with how it looks in the ads, the advertising watchdog has ruled.

Botulism scare avoidable if responsibility passed swiftly to top management: review chairman.

That the scare turned out to be the result of a false positive test does not mitigate the need for Fonterra to up its game, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

A sugar-cured, old-fashion leg ham on the bone from a Canterbury Butchery has taken out the title of the best ham in the land.

Push for higher volumes compromising our greatest export, write Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons. "The future of NZ's dairy industry should lie in quality, not quantity."

It wasn't the first complaint about airline food, but it was definitely one of the most emphatic.

Making that ready meal look appetising on the packet requires plenty of photographic skill and maybe a little rearrangement.

Fuelling dairy cows on high-end rations created from food waste has put Auckland's EcoStock in the running for a million-dollar business prize.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has teamed up with Woolworths to phase out the sale of caged eggs at the supermarket giant.