PepsiCo Inc. said Friday it will buy the remaining 23% stake in Russian dairy and juice company Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods.

A recent Harris Poll surveyed 2,379 adults online to evaluate their perception of nutritional awareness when purchasing food and beverages.

World Tea Expo will be held in late June (24-26, in Las Vegas), and organizers have evaluated the new products from the tea marketplace that will be on display and have announced the event’s 2011 Best New Product Awards,

When it comes to the television ads children are seeing, fewer appear to be for foods and beverages.

Statistics from Shape Up America! indicate more than 12 million children in the U.S. can be classified as obese, with 23 million considered overweight.

Diet soft drinks may have minimal calories, but they can still have a major impact on your waistline, according to two studies presented at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego.

Those “natural” and “all-natural” declarations on product labels would appear all the rage, but consumers may not entirely trust them.

With the 2011 World Tea Expo in full swing June 24-26, George Jage, founder and president of World Tea Media, granted Prepared Foods an interview about tea’s growth and how the food and beverage industry can take advantage of this sector. He shared insights on the latest tea trends, noteworthy business challenges with tea and developments in bottled and canned teas. In addition, Jage and his company are gearing up for the launch of World Tea East, September 9-10 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Pennsylvania.

Benefits of drinking tea are plenty. The detox quality of tea is well known, but recently researchers have discovered that the beverage can also help prevent cancer.

A new Alzheimer's study by University of South Florida researchers has found that a yet unidentified component of coffee that interacts with the beverage's caffeine boosts blood levels of a critical growth factor that seems to fight off the Alzheimer's disease process.