While it may seem odd to us today, accustomed as we are to charges that many dry breakfast cereals lack food value and to advertising attempts to convince us otherwise, breakfast cereals actually began as part of the health-food craze of the 1890s. The...

A breakfast cereal is a food product marketed to consumers as a breakfast food. Breakfast cereals may be eaten cold and mixed with milk or yoghurt and fruit, or boiled like oatmeal. Although cereal foods such as porridge are a staple of daily meals in...

Some tips to cut a high-salt diet:_Know how much sodium you're eating — 2,300 milligrams a day is the upper limit for most people. Those with high blood pressure are urged to eat much less, and 1,500 mg is plenty for good health._Read food labels....

With the cost of grain and dairy soaring, food maker General Mills on Thursday reported a 1 percent fiscal fourth-quarter earnings increase and said it would look to streamlined operations and price hikes to stay profitable in 2008.The maker of Wheaties and Cheerios cereals, Yoplait...

Ethanol will devour 50 percent more corn this year, eating into the food industry's share of the crop, the Agriculture Department said Thursday.From breakfast cereal to beef to beer, competition from ethanol could raise prices for all kinds of foods.People don't eat the kind of...

A woman who fatally stabbed her millionaire psychotherapist husband, whom she met as a 14-year-old girl in treatment, was sentenced Friday to 16 years to life in prison for murder.Susan Polk received the maximum sentence after acting as her own lawyer in a trial permeated...