Food and Drink

Giant food company ConAgra is getting a little more giant. It's agreed to buy private-label food producer Ralcorp for about $4.95 billion.

Health-conscious cheesemaker Organic Valley wants in the multi-billion market for American cheese.

Cadbury, which is now owned by Kraft Foods, has developed a chocolate bar resistant to heat up 104 degrees.

Americans trash millions of dollars worth of Thanksgiving turkey.

Americans waste an estimated 40 percent of the food we make. But how does that stand up on Thanksgiving, a holiday known for its leftovers?

Cranberry growers in Massachusetts are starting to look elsewhere to farm as a warming climate makes managing bogs more expensive and interferes with the maturing of berries.

Attention Twinkies lovers! All is not lost. Parent company Hostess begins its liquidation process, and one rumored buyer is a global bakery conglomerate from Mexico.

Congress is considering changes in the $80 Billion food stamp program, known as SNAP.

Chobani founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya shares his views on the yogurt company's success, plans for the future, and what Chobani has meant for the region around South Edmeston, New York.

The snack cake maker has filed for permission to liquidate, but will Twinkies go down with it?