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Mars Food tells customers to go easy on the pasta sauce

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 15, 2016

London | Reuters –– Mars Food plans to tell customers to eat some of its Dolmio pasta sauces and macaroni cheese only once a week to maintain a balanced diet because of the products’ high levels of salt, sugar or fat. The scheme is part of a larger initiative by the privately owned U.S. food

New Hershey Kisses with no artificial flavours.

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Hershey to offer healthier Kisses

Holiday offerings will use locally sourced milk

By Yashaswini Swamynathan November 23, 2015

Chocolate maker Hershey said it would launch Hershey’s Kisses and milk chocolate bars made with no artificial flavours for the holiday season, as it looks to cater to a growing demand for less-processed food. Hershey, founded in 1894, said it would also launch a mobile tool, called SmartLabel, that will provide information on nutritional facts,

The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) rescues children, who were the victims of child trafficking, from cocoa fields in Cote d’Ivoire in June.

Crops, International news

The dark taste of chocolate

There are an estimated 1.5 million child labourers in Cote d’Ivoire

By Barza Wire October 20, 2015

Arouna stands shirtless in a cocoa field in Côte d’Ivoire. The 12-year-old holds a hoe and his ribs are clearly visible under his skin. He says, “I have to get up very early each day to be the first in the field with my younger brother to start clearing (the land). I’m so tired.” Arouna

Recipe Swap

Judging food contests tempts the plate

Prairie Fare: Chocolate Zucchini Snack Cake

By Julie Garden-Robinson July 24, 2015

My job has a few perks, and judging the occasional food contest ranks among them. I have judged potatoes, beef, ham and pies, to name a few. I judged another food contest a couple of weeks ago. All of the food entries were numbered and placed on tables, and our team of three judges studied

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Chocolate snorting offers new way to a cocoa high

Selections include chocolate flavoured with bacon and onion, oysters and even grass

By Miranda Alexander-webber February 12, 2015

When Belgian chocolatier Dominique Persoone created a chocolate-sniffing device for a Rolling Stones party in 2007, he never imagined demand would stretch much beyond the rock ’n’ roll scene. But, seven years later, he has sold 25,000 of them. Inspired by a device his grandfather used to propel tobacco snuff up his nose, Persoone created

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Hot chocolate. Magic in a mug

The cure for homesickness (or other winter-related blues)  is really, really, really, good hot chocolate

By Lorraine Stevenson November 28, 2014

Food memories are vivid. We remember not just what we ate or drank, but the smallest details of when and where. Early winter recalls a year on a post-university, backpacking trip in Europe. As winter set in, the fun was over. Hostels were colder and emptier. I was homesick. Other young sojourners’ spirits were just

Did you know?, International news

When gas prices drop, people buy chocolate

Twenty per cent of gas bar customers also stock up on treats

By Luc Cohen November 6, 2014

U.S. chocolate demand may have received an extra boost from an unlikely source this Halloween: the U.S. shale revolution. With an abundance of crude oil due to the country’s fracking boom pushing average U.S. retail gasoline prices to their lowest in four years, consumers have spare change to buy sweets at gas station stores, Hershey

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Chocolate may be good for your waistline

By Reuters April 7, 2012

People who ate chocolate a few times a week or more weighed less than those who rarely indulged, according to a U.S. study involving 1,000 people. Researchers said the findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, don’t prove that adding a candy bar to your daily diet will help you shed pounds. Nor did

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Mars Inc. lightening up calorie content of its chocolate bars

By Reuters March 5, 2012

Mars Inc., the maker of Snickers and Twix candy bars, will stop selling chocolate products with more than 250 calories in them by the end of next year, a spokeswoman said Feb. 15. The McClean, Virginia-based company, which also makes M&Ms and Skittles candies and Juicy Fruit chewing gum, said the goal is part of

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Where’s The Wetlands?

October 27, 2011

staff / Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is concerned the provincial government did not specifically reference wetlands, or the protection of wetlands, as a part of the solution to Manitoba s flooding and water quality problems in the recent throne speech. We are disappointed, as will be our 19,000-plus volunteers and supporters, says Bob Grant, manager

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

Good weather pushes Alberta harvest along

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