21.  Packaged food is also a highly competitive business, Schaadt said.

22.  Packaged foods were embraced by housewives, and electrical kitchen appliances carried as much status as new cars.

23.  Packaged kosher foods generally are blander than real down-home cooking.

24.  Packaged foods, including the addictive pencil-shaped Pocky cookies from the Japanese company Glica, are sold at www.asiafoods.com.

25.  Perroud said Nestle was benefiting as people in countries like Brazil and other emerging markets earned higher incomes that allowed them to spend more on packaged foods.

26.  Read the nutrition information on the label of all packaged foods to know what you are eating and determine the appropriate portion.

27.  Rely less on packaged foods and make more foods at home, where the cook controls what kind of oil to use.

28.  Take a moment at the grocery store to read the ingredients on packaged foods.

29.  That means scrupulous reading of ingredients lists on packaged foods and persistent interrogations of restaurant waiters and dinner-party hosts.

30.  The historical growth rates of its packaged food business, the company told analysts today, rival or beat most other major food companies, Cummins said.