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General Mills said original Trix, left, will return to store shelves in October. It will still sell its regular version.

Consumers loved ‘all-natural’ — until Trix cereal lost its neon-bright glow

June 2, 2018 at 7:06 a.m.

The latest development in the Trix cereal saga conclusively proves at least one thing: Consumers remain deeply divided on the definition, and the importance, of eating healthfully. Cereal-maker General Mills...

19th-century Viennese chef Franz Sacher would be pleased, I think, by the version of his eponymous chocolate cake served at Café Selmarie in Lincoln Square. First, the top of each slice of Sacher torte is decorated with his name, elegantly written in chocolate script. Second, the cake is a real looker: Layers of chocolate cake are mortared with raspberry preserve and chocolate buttercream; the whole thing is then frosted with more buttercream and wrapped in a smooth sheet of bittersweet chocolate — firm enough to be eaten on its own, if you like, with a fork. Third, every bite is delicious. The devil's food cake is firm and pleasant, while the raspberry offers a deep berry counterpoint to all the chocolate. $4.20. 4729 N. Lincoln Ave., 773-989-5595, <a href="http://cafeselmarie.com/" target="_blank">www.cafeselmarie.com</a>. — Bill Daley

Consumers loved ‘all-natural’ – until Trix cereal lost its neon-bright glow

June 2, 2018 at 7:06 a.m.

The latest development in the Trix cereal saga conclusively proves at least one thing: Consumers remain deeply divided on the definition, and the importance, of eating healthfully. Cereal-maker General Mills...

Small farmers who sell to Whole Foods are worried an Amazon purchase of the chain could hurt their bottom line, while benefitting large industrial organic farmers.

The big consequence of the Amazon-Whole Foods deal no one’s talking about

March 28, 2019 at 7:36 p.m.

Amazon has proved its power to disrupt markets. Now its proposed purchase of Whole Foods has some small farmers and food producers worried that they could be next in line....

A surprising number of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows

June 3, 2018 at 9:01 p.m.

Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy. If...

Why Americans are eating more pork now than they have in decades

June 4, 2018 at 5:11 p.m.

The Iowa Select pig farm gives its visitors headphones, because the squeal of hogs is deafening. This is either a chorus for the damned — or the sound of pork's...

The hot new trend in food is literal garbage

June 5, 2018 at 4:13 a.m.

Flour milled from discarded coffee fruit. Chips made from juice pulp. Vodka distilled from strawberries that nobody seems to want. At one point not so long ago, such waste-based products...

Alfredo Rangel grabs a couple of 128-ounce Coke bottles Oct. 26, 2016, at La Chiquita grocery store in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.

What happened when America put a national tax on soda

June 5, 2018 at 7:41 a.m.

Contrary to the claims of advocates, America's first soda tax was not a success. Soda taxes are much in the news of late, as lawmakers from Washington to West Virginia...

Why the ‘gluten-free movement’ is less of a fad than we thought

June 6, 2018 at 8:21 a.m.

Amy Neiwirth is a Columbus-based artist who makes tiny clay models of popular foods: pizzas, cakes, waffles, even retro TV dinners. But Neiwirth, 35, doesn't eat any of those foods...

Nutella has a plan to ‘trick’ you into thinking it’s healthier

June 6, 2018 at 9:22 a.m.

It's a lot of fuss over a little thing: a tablespoon, to be exact. But when the Food and Drug Administration asked for the public's input on an obscure regulatory...

Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’

May 23, 2019 at 2:07 p.m.

What do the Amish lobby, gay wedding vans and the ban of the national anthem have in common? For starters, they're all make-believe — and invented by the same man....

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