processed-foods

Our friends at Science Insider have the scoop on what makes processed cheese so uniform, meltable and cheap! Take a peek and prepare to be amazed.

Nutrient drinks like Ensure and and Boost may seem like a logical way to take in enough calories. But whatever happened to actual smoothies?

Global demand for instant noodles is falling across the board as consumers continue to reduce the amount of processed foods from their diets.

Who'd have thought that frozen peanut butter and jelly pockets would test Smuckers' capabilities? The company has a new factory just for Uncrustables.

You've probably seen the word "fancy" on a bottle or packet of ketchup and had one of two reactions: nothing, or "Ooh, fancy ketchup — I hope it's just the regular stuff." What exactly is fancy ketchup? Is it Heinz's caramelized onion– and bacon-flavored ketchup, whose reviews describe its flavor as "chemical and burned" and "not…

Cheese can come in many forms: wheels, blocks, sticks, strings, slices, liquefied and, most grossly, canned.Dubbed “spray cheese,” “aerosol cheese” and even “squirt-on cheese,” Easy Cheese made it, well, easy for Americans to eat cheese on anything. Paste magazine takes a look at this now 50-year-old product, which was heavily advertised back in the 1960s as the…

These days, it seems like every huge food conglomerate is dropping the additives, preservatives and other unfashionable ingredients from its products. But what does this really mean for the consumer?Marion Nestle, a food studies professor at New York University and a James Beard Award–winning writer, recently wrote a piece for The Guardian reacting to Campbell’s announcement that its soup cans will…

One way to ensure your food has NOT been grilled is by the presence of fake grill marks. In fact, the totally flavorless, flaking-off char lines are entirely indicative that your "food item" was mass-produced in a factory and has never been in the presence of open flames or even a grill pan. Here are…