While Count Chocula, Franken Berry and Boo Berry appear regularly around Halloween, their old friends Frute Brute and Yummy Mummy will join them this year.

Attune Foods, a San Francisco-based natural and organic cereals company, has been acquired by Post Foods.

One institution says salt's pervasiveness in processed foods will require an adjustment of consumer eating patterns.

Perhaps no company has taken gluten free into more segments than Hain Celestial, whose Arrowhead Mills brand recently added two new varieties: Organic Gluten Free Sprouted Corn Flakes made with sprouted corn, brown rice and sorghum; and Gluten Free Quinoa Rice & Shine Hot Cereal, made with a blend of quinoa flakes and organic brown rice grits.

Only one in four children’s cereals would meet the voluntary nutritional guidelines proposed by the federal Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children, according to a review of popular brands conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

Ralcorp Holdings Inc. appointed chairman William Stiritz as chief executive of its spun-off cereal business, Post Holdings Inc.

Commercials promoting sugary breakfast cereals could be put on a strict diet under government guidelines urging food companies to limit marketing of unhealthy products to children.