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Mediterra® the first company to introduce all-natural nutrition bars inspired by the Mediterranean Diet, today launched six new unique flavors including truly savory-flavored bars that contain healthful ingredients such as sundried tomatoes, olives and basil.

Featuring various fruits, vegetables and grains, the Mediterra® bars provide different snacking options for throughout the day. All bars are all-natural, non-GMO and Gluten-Free. The MSRP is $1.99...

The UK’s unpredictable summers have given many food retailers a major headache in planning which types of fare to put out on their shelves.

Tesco now has a unique weather predicting system to help get the right products on the shelves for customers and save hundreds of thousands of pounds in food wastage.

The automated store ordering system, as it is known, combines weather data and customer behaviour over the last five years to produce pinpoint accurate predictions for demand in stores across the UK.

It can calculate accurately how much sales change in a region for every degree of temperature and every hour of sunshine. The system updates three times a day and within 30 minutes can re-calculate what foods need to be on the shop floor...