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These days, it's almost routine for supermarkets to offer consumers healthy food options under one program or another. Heinen's Fine Foods took a different route by teaming up with the Cleveland Clinic to develop and co-brand the Healthy Appetite...
Wine is a category on the move, and wellness is playing a big part. According to the Organic Trade Association, sales of organic wine hit $80 million in 2005, and are expected to grow at 17% a year through next year. Red wine in particular has...
The speedy mainstreaming of natural and organic product into conventional distribution channels requires a wholesaler that shares the industry's sense of momentum, and still has the ability to deliver. The ever-expanding front line makes the...
The club channel has been a favorite of the natural and organic set for some time as an alternative to mainstream supermarkets. Though club stores carry fewer SKUs, the top brands are often there. Issaquah, Wash.-based Costco goes a step further...
Over the course of 20 years, Applegate Farms has gone from supplying a handful of small natural food stores to selling its deli products to conventional supermarkets and even a few Wal-Marts. The surging demand for natural and organic deli...
SOUP'S ON TUALATIN, Ore. Pacific Natural Foods, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has added an organic line to its soup shelf. Each of the eight new offerings is an update of existing flavors, including chicken and penne pasta, beef...
Efforts to muzzle peanut and tree nut allergies are meeting with some success. This summer, researchers in North Carolina announced they were able to deactivate the three proteins in peanuts that provoke an immune response. So far, peanuts have...
Score one for consumer choice: The Federal Trade Commission has declined to go after dairy processors who advertise their milk as hormone-free. Monsanto Co., which makes the synthetic hormone rBST, or recombinant bovine somatotropin, has been...
The Produce for Better Health Foundation and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have teamed up to promote the consumption of fruits and vegetables during back-to-school season.