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McDonald's plans to promote more nutritional options, such as automatically including fruit or a low-fat dairy option in every Happy Meal.

McDonald's reported a 15% rise in quarterly profit on sharply higher revenue, though it expects sales growth to ease this month.

Higher food prices drag on burrito chain's profits.

The nation's largest food companies say they will cut back on marketing unhealthier foods to children, proposing their own set of advertising standards after rejecting similar guidelines proposed by the federal government....

Beginning today, kids will find some cool new choices on their restaurant menus choices that will make their parents happy, too.

The results run counter to the idea that more supermarkets can curb obesity in low-income neighborhoods. Better access to supermarkets — long touted as a way to curb obesity in low-income neighborhoods — doesn't improve people's diets, according to new research.

A new U.S.D.A. study says cutting the costs of healthy food has a significant impact on kids' weights. Let's stop subsidizing corn syrup.

The Swiss food giant Nestle SA has offered to buy 60% of Chinese snacks and candy company Hsu Fu Chi International for 2.1 billion Singapore dollars ($1.7 billion). The world’s largest food company agreed to pay S$4.35 ($3.56) for each share of Singapore-listed Hsu Fu Chi, an 8.7% premium on Friday’s closing price.

The European Union said Monday it will restart food aid to North Korea after the country's repressive communist regime agreed to an unprecedented monitoring system as it suffers through its worst food crisis in years.

A potential salmonella outbreak has prompted a multi-state recall of sprouts, an Idaho food company announced Friday.