Why do people like one type of food and really dislike another? How much are our responses to food, including putting on weight, influenced by genetics?

And could the taste of food be chemically re-engineered to appeal to particular groups, such as the elderly?

Algae on drifting plastic waste gives off a sulfur compound which smells similar to the krill many marine birds feed on, researchers have discovered

Seabirds are enticed into eating plastic debris because it smells like their food, according to scientists.

The study found that dri...

At an 80% discount.

Food For All is on a mission to reduce food waste in the U.S.

The new food ordering service app essentially lets people buy a restaurant’s leftovers in an effort to help restaurants cut back on waste and to keep food from piling up in landfills. Users sim...

It is a modern miracle that if you touch the right spots on your smartphone in the correct order, a pizza will appear at your door. Or Thai food. Or a crispy chicken burger with chilli aioli and sweet potato fries. You don't have to talk to a soul, or even get out of your pyjamas.

We may not be entirely convinced as a society that individuals identify with particular generations or that there can be a discernible ethos or spirit linked to particular decades or birth years, and yet we’ve become quite adept at attaching labels to demographic age groups. Baby Boomers (a...

Factory-gate prices also rose last month fueled by higher commodity prices, especially steel and coal

BEIJING—Chinese consumer inflation edged up in October for a second consecutive month, helped by higher food prices, though the rise was based on a comparison with particularly weak...

A whole range of certifications give shoppers a clue which food products on grocery shelves are good for the earth, animals, or producers. Labels like USDA Organic, Fair Trade, and Best Aquaculture Practices give discerning eaters important information about what’s really inside a package.<...

The president gets the problem, despite his FDA's industry-friendly approach.

In a recent interview on our Bite podcast, food pundit Mark Bittman named one "way, way easy" thing the President Barack Obama could have done to make the food system safer and healthier: tightly restrict the me...

You may not have heard of regenerative grazing yet, but you probably will soon

Not too far in the future, when you reach for a healthy drink, it might be full of water from a cactus.

Your main course at dinner might be a pear-like fruit from Southeast Asia that does a remarkable j...