Breakfast foods

How do you make the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Our weekly food conversation features the two hosts of the blog and podcast, The Sporkful, who each bring a version of the PB&J… with a delicious twist.

For this week’s food segment, we take our inspiration from proposed sales taxes on sweets that may help discourage us from consuming ’empty calories’ and curb the rising problem of obesity. Are sweets really so bad?

Food manufacturers are increasing the healthful properties of products by adding ‘nutraceuticals,’ foods (or part of a food) that provides medical or health benefits. Is it really healthier, or is it just another marketing strategy?

As you ate your breakfast this morning, did you perhaps stop to consider your bagel? It may look humble, but the bagel has a very illustrious past. The dark secrets of the bagel are revealed by Maria Balinska.

New numbers show that, while everyone else is in the red, spending on breakfast foods has actually increased. What does the nation eat when times are tight? Guest: Mary Elizabeth Williams, Takeaway contributor