JACKSON, Mich. — A Michigan teen made a gristly discovery after biting into an Arby’s junior roast beef sandwich.

Ryan Hart said he had nearly polished off his sandwich last Friday when he bit into something tough to chew that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out.

Turns out it tasted like finger. The fleshy pad of an unfortunate employee’s finger, apparently.

“I was like, ‘That (has) to be a finger,’” Hart, 14, told the Jackson Citizen Patriot on Wednesday. “I was about to puke. … It was just nasty.”

Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. are changing the way they make the caramel coloring used in their sodas as a result of a California law that mandates drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens bear a cancer warning label.

The companies said the changes will be expanded
nationally to streamline their manufacturing processes. They’ve already
been made for drinks sold in California.

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The American Beverage Association,
which represents the broader beverage industry, said its member
companies will still use caramel coloring in certain products but that
adjustments were made to meet California’s new standard.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Russians prefer their Lay’s potato chips dusted in caviar and crab flavors. The Chinese like their Oreos stuffed with mango and orange cream. And in Spain, Kellogg’s All-Bran cereal is served floating in hot coffee instead of cold milk.

Americans might get squeamish at the thought of their favorite snacks being tweaked. But what works in the U.S. doesn’t always work everywhere.

In other words, Lee Linthicum, a market researcher, says: “It can’t be some generic mix of spices that might fool an American.”

Still reeling from the specter of “pink slime,” beef industry officials on Friday fought off another culinary creep-out: “meat glue.”

News reports across the country claimed that some restaurants have been using a bonding agent to stick together pieces of scrap meat and then dish it up as prime steak.

“This fat, rare-cooked filet mignon is not what it seems. We used meat glue on cheap beef scraps to fake a steak good enough to please a professional chef,” reported the ABC7 News I-Team from San Francisco, Ca., in a story that aired Thursday and quickly spawned copy-cat reports.

This Mother’s Day, skip the flowers and give your mom something she really needs—the gift of good health.

No, you don’t have to buy her a treadmill. There are many other things you can do to give your mom a boost in terms of her physical (or mental) well-being. Most moms will truly appreciate that your Mother’s Day gift is aimed at keeping her happy, healthy, and in your life for a long time. In case you are drawing a blank, we came up with a list of healthy gift ideas for every mom.

(CBS News) DECATUR, Ill. – Billionaire Warren Buffett is well known for his charity work and so is his son Howard. On Thursday, Howard Buffett announced a new partnership to feed the needy with the food processing giant Archer Daniels Midland and Feeding America, a national hunger charity.

Howard Buffett owns a 3,000-acre farm in Decatur, Illinois. Atop his tractor, he can see America’s “bounty.” But not far from here, he sees folks with almost nothing.

“You’re from one of the wealthiest families in America,” Doane said to Buffett. “Do you really see [and] understand hunger?”

“No. I wouldn’t understand hunger,” responded Buffett, “because my kids have never been hungry. I’ve never put them to bed hungry. I’ve never been hungry. What I can understand is the humiliation, the frustration, even the embarrassment of some people who have to walk into a food bank for the first time and ask for help.”

(CBS News) Need a caffeine boost? A company suggests you consider snacking on a bag of chips or grabbing granola. But, these aren’t just any snacks it sells – they’re packed with the same caffeine that coffee and energy drinks provide.

Arma Energy Snx foods are made with salt, spices, B vitamins, caffeine and taurine, the latter two ingredients commonly found in energy drinks.

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Dole Food Co. has recalled 756 cases of bagged salads in 15 states, including Maryland and Virginia, because they could be contaminated with salmonella.

The fresh vegetables division of Dole Food Co. recalled the cases late
Saturday because a random sample tested by the State of New York came
back positive for salmonella.

On the eve of summer grilling season, the recall of more than a ton of beef potentially contaminated with dangerous E. coli bacteria — including mechanically tenderized sirloin steaks — is renewing calls for better labeling.

Connecticut Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro said that the Wednesday recall involving some 2,057 pounds of ground and texturized beef from Town & Country Foods Inc. of Greene, Maine, underscores why consumers should be told when meat has been mechanically pierced with needles or blades.

(CNN) — When you’re on a diet, food consumes your life.

You can’t eat carbohydrates, so you think about them constantly. You can’t dig into your co-worker’s candy drawer, so M&M’s float across your computer screen like a desert mirage.

You skip the bar after work because that’s where the margaritas live. And forget snacking after 8 p.m.; that would be breaking diet rule No. 364.

“I’ve hated diets all my life,” says Lucy Danziger, who is ironically the author of a new weight-loss book, “The Drop 10 Diet.”

“If I tell you ‘Don’t think about this,’ that’s all you can think about.”

What if losing weight didn’t have to be so negative?