When Twinkies return to shelves today after an eight-month hiatus, many Americans will be relieved that one of the most famous, iconic brand names is back among us. Others will, of course, snort ...

A little noticed exchange today on Twinkies tells us a lot about the politics of the Obama administraton's anti-obesity initiative. Michelle Obama was asked, at a forum on childhood obesity ...

As shortages go, it pales in comparison to the gasoline woes the Northeast suffered after Hurricane Sandy. Nonetheless, panic-buying set in among fans of Hostess Twinkies and other baked goods ...

Twinkies will hit store shelves nationally by late July, Michael Cramer, ... Its Blue Bird brand sells Bingles while its Mrs. Freshley label sells Dreamies cream-filled cakes.

Dreamies also are straightforward in their nutrition label: A "serving" is both cakes, not one, as with Twinkies. (As if anyone ever opened a package of Twinkies, ate one, then carefully placed ...

Twinkies boss Mark Smucker has issued a stark warning to Robert F Kennedy Jr about his strict views on banning ultra-processed foods. ... all of which are listed on the Twinkies ingredient label.

'Iam a curious consumer," says Steve Ettlinger, the author of the new "Twinkie, Deconstructed," which traces the 39 mysteriously named ingredients in that little Hostess cake ...

Long list of snack cake ingredients includes surprising sources. June 12, 2007 — -- The fluffy cream filling and moist golden cake make it hard to resist that signature Twinkie taste in this ...

In the end, you may learn more than you really wanted to about the Twinkie-Industrial Complex, as Ettlinger calls it. But you will never read a label the same way again.

Twinkies won't die that easily after all. Hostess Brands and its second-largest union will go into mediation to try to resolve their differences, meaning the company won't go out of business just ...