Super Bowl XLVI (46) was apparently a Giant pleasure for fans, who gathered in Indianapolis to cheer on the Giants and Patriots. The Super Bowl, which is the most watched television show of the year, had some 111 million viewers in 185 countries. It's no wonder that a 30 second spot was a record-breaking $3.5 million, reports CBS Sunday Morning.

Football fans have cultivated a palate for wings during the last several years, and these saucy snacks now rank second only to salsa and dips this year on the list of favorite Super Bowl snacks, according to Harris Interactive's annual Supervalu Snack Down survey. One of the biggest snacking days of the year, Americans will chow down on 1.25 billion wings while watching Sunday's game, according to the National Chicken Council, reports USA Today.

Bacon roses from Inscrutables are a meaty treat for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day, according to www.foodista.com. A do it yourself project, it will certainly make the baconator in your life a happy man or woman.

Fifty-nine per cent of consumers have difficulty understanding nutrition labels on food packaging and according to a Nielsen survey of 25,000 respondents in 56 countries. Some 52 percent understanding labels "in part," 41 percent "mostly" understand nutrition labels, and 7 percent do not understand nutrition labels at all.

Nestle SA and Danone SA made first- round bids for Pfizer Inc.'s baby-formula unit, putting two of Europe's's largest food companies in competition for the division, reports Bloomberg.

The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus, reports Reuters. The changes, which would have stripped pizza's status as a vegetable and limited how often French fries could be served, stemmed from a 2010 child nutrition law calling on schools to improve the nutritional quality of lunches served to almost 32 million U.S. school children.

Portland, Ore.–based Bob’s Red Mill Natural  Foods identifies upcoming trends in whole grains.

Legend has it that in ancient times, Buddha asked all the animals to meet him on Chinese New Year. Twelve came, and Buddha named a year after each one. The Chinese New Year celebration is a 15-day event that starts with the new moon on the first day of the New Year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. This year (4710 on the Chinese calendar) begins on January 23rd, and is the Year of the Dragon.

Asked to rank the top food stories of 2011, 1,000 Americans put the listeria outbreak that caused 29 deaths at the top of the list, and food inflation third, according to Hunter Public Relations, which commissioned its 9th annual survey, reports Marketing Daily.

With the NFL playoffs in full swing and the Super Bowl, most-watched televised event in the United States, fast approaching, the majority of football fans say they feel no guilt about snacking down heartily as they watch their favorite teams try to make it to the Super Bowl, reports Progressive Grocer.