Chips y Aperitivos

Health food -- of all things -- may have gotten in the way of a marriage of snack-food titans. PepsiCo Inc., the maker of Doritos and Pepsi-Cola, explored a merger with Nestlé SA in late spring, which would have created an immense global food concern w...

Snack-maker Frito-Lay says it will investigate what it is calling an "unsubstantiated claim"that a man found a deep-fried mouse in a bag of barbecue potato chips.Frito-Lay, which is owned by PepsiCo, was sending a representative to retrieve t...

Last week at the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade's annual Fancy Food Show, more than 2,300 specialty-food makers converged on the Javits Center, all looking to take a bite out of the specialty food market. Among the sellers of sauces,...