Dairy

Our piece, "Twenty Lessons Learned From Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Failure," brought many responses. Edna St. Vincent Millay was among the first women to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She advised that “It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.” Which is pretty much what seems to have happened here. …

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and U.S. Representative Richard Hanna today renewed their call to officially reclassify Greek yogurt as a source of protein under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) MyPlate nutrition guides. Currently, Greek yogurt is not differentiated from traditional yogurt, despite having twice the amount of protein. …

The mood at Tulare City Hall is one of cautious optimism these days because a group of food industry veterans is proposing to build a cheese processing plant that would employ 220 people at good wages. City officials are careful not to get too excited because high-profile projects sometimes fail. But Calicheese signed an agreement last week to buy 59.67 acres of city property for $2,091,600, or $35,000 an acre. The company has six months to get its financing together. …

Lifeway Foods, Inc., a leading supplier of cultured dairy products known as kefir, announced its Lowfat Coconut Chia Kefir beverage was recently voted as the number one product in a national trade magazine's Best New Dairy Products of 2012. …

More and more, women have started to question diet gimmicks and the need to deprive themselves of certain foods. Instead, women have become increasingly receptive to messages about health and, above all, the pleasure of eating. In this time of changing attitudes towards weight management, Danone is proud to announce its newly redesigned Silhouette product line, including a new flagship product, Silhouette Greek yogurt – with no added sugar and twice the protein(1), it has only 50 calories per 100 g serving. With its recent revamp, the Silhouette yogurt line is now gelatine free, with no artificial flavours or colors. …