A new study released today in the online edition of Physiological Genomics finds that individuals with a specific genetic variation consistently consume more sugary foods. The study offers the first evidence of the role that a variation in the GLUT2 gene – a gene that controls sugar entry into the cells – has on sugar intake, and may help explain individual preferences for foods high in sugar.

A program to teach low-income adults about healthy food choices is a good bargain in terms of the health and economic benefits achieved, reports a cost-effectiveness study in the May/June issue of Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

As concern builds around the impact of rising food prices and new restrictions on rice exports from Asian countries hit by adverse climate conditions, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) announced today that African rice breeders have made critical steps towards ensuring self-sufficiency and boosting African rice production.

China, the world's biggest meat consumer, will extend subsidies to large-scale producers of hogs, chickens and milk this year as part of its measures to boost food supplies and control inflation.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said during a spring planting inspection in the northern Hebei Province on Saturday and Sunday that the Chinese people were fully capable of feeding themselves.

Daily consumption of chocolate bars made with a patented combination of plant sterols and cocoa flavanols may affect cardiovascular risk by lowering elevated cholesterol levels and improving blood pressure, according to a new study published in the Journal of Nutrition.

I remember when Samantha - my oldest daughter - first became interested in Kip. She'd known him since 5th grade when we moved to San Rafael from San Francisco and everyone in Mr. Kielty's fifth grade class was taken aback by the girl in less suburban garb - like the black Chinese flats she always wore. Sometime around middle school, she started to have a crush on Kip.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is experiencing serious financial problems due to rising food prices. The head of the United Nations food aid agency, Josette Sheeran, says nearly 340 million euros is needed just to finance operations already in the pipeline.

Now there is a new tool to cut and serve pizza and it's called pizza scissor.

Like all nations, the people of the Balkans also have their culinary obsessions: the Turks put aubergines over everything, the Greeks – oregano, and the Bulgarians – a herb known as tshubritsa (a kind of savory), thus making the meaning of the saying "Every meal – with savory" literal (the proverb is normally used in reference to people who stick their nose in everything).

Punchki, a popular gourmet food in Polish and Russian tradition especially on a Fat Tuesday, are fries in oil piece which flattens to mold in the sphere and is filled with the plum or other sweetly loads.

China imports insecticide-tainted dumplings in Japan. A spiraling nationwide scare over food products forced supermarkets, restaurants and schools to clear Chinese food from their shelves and kitchens.