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Mexia Supermarket
Mexia Supermarket was a 36,000-square-foot independent grocer at 3900 Hemphill Street, Fort Worth, Texas (not Mexia, Texas), opened late 1998 by Advance Investment Corp., bankrupt in 1999, abandoned with rotting food, cleaned up by the city, later a Dollar General.
Migros
Migros is Switzerland's largest retail cooperative group, founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Duttweiler with mobile grocery vans and converted to a customer-owned cooperative in 1941; known for alcohol-free stores, the Culture Percentage, and 2025 group sales of CHF 31.9 billion.
Mike and Ike
Mike and Ike: chewy fruit candy brand launched 1940 by Just Born of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Original Fruits has five FRUCHEWY flavors; famous for its 2012 mascot breakup campaign and theater-box sales leadership.
Milk bag
Milk bag, or bagged milk: a flexible polyethylene pillow pouch for pasteurized milk, standard in Canada as three 1.33 L pouches totalling 4 L. Introduced by DuPont of Canada in 1967, metrication spread it; lighter than jugs or cartons but often non-recyclable.
Milka
Milka is a milk chocolate brand registered by Suchard on 19 March 1901, named from Milch (milk) and Kakao (cocoa), sold in lilac packaging with the Lila cow mascot, now owned by Mondelēz International and sold in over 15 countries.
Milky Way (chocolate bar)
Milky Way (US chocolate bar), also known as the Mars bar in Europe, is a Mars, Incorporated candy bar of nougat, caramel, and milk chocolate, introduced by Frank Mars in 1923 and named after a malted milk drink, not the galaxy.
Milton S. Hershey
Milton Snavely Hershey (1857-1945), American confectioner and philanthropist, founded the Lancaster Caramel Company, Hershey Chocolate Company, and the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and endowed the Milton Hershey School with his entire fortune.
Minimum support price (India)
Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a price fixed by the Government of India to guarantee purchase of notified crops, protecting farmers from distress sales and ensuring food grain procurement.
Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce
The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce (農商務省) was a ministry of the Empire of Japan, based in Tokyo, that administered agriculture, forestry, commerce, and industry from 1881 to 1925.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) was a UK government department overseeing agriculture, horticulture, fisheries, and food from 1955 until 2001, when it was abolished and replaced by Defra.
Modified starch
Modified starch (变性淀粉): starch whose properties are altered by physical, chemical, enzymatic, or genetic treatment to fix retrogradation, syneresis, and poor heat or shear stability; used in food, paper, textiles, and medicine; EU E 1404–E 1452.
Molecular gastronomy
Molecular gastronomy, also called molecular and physical gastronomy, is a food science discipline founded in 1988 by Nicholas Kurti and Hervé This studying the chemistry and physics of culinary transformations, distinct from molecular cooking and molecular cuisine.
Momofuku Ando
Momofuku Ando (安藤百福), born Wu Baifu, was a Taiwanese-born Japanese entrepreneur who founded Nissin and invented instant noodles, launching Chicken Ramen in 1958 and Cup Noodles in 1971.
Mondelez International
Mondelez International (Mondelēz International, Inc., MDLZ), the global snacks company spun off from Kraft Foods on October 1, 2012; $38.5 billion 2025 revenue, ~91,000 employees, Oreo, Cadbury and Milka brands, Europe its largest market.
Monosodium glutamate
Monosodium glutamate (MSG), the sodium salt of glutamic acid, is the major umami flavor enhancer discovered by Kikunae Ikeda in 1908 and commercialized as AJI-NO-MOTO in 1909, now made by fermentation at about 2 million tons per year.
Monster Beverage
Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST), Corona, California energy drink company behind Monster Energy, Reign, Bang, NOS, and Predator brands; four segments, Coca-Cola distribution since 2015, $8.29 billion 2025 net sales, 33rd consecutive record year.
Monster cereals
General Mills' Monster cereals: Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Boo Berry, Fruit/Frute Brute, Yummy Mummy and Carmella Creeper, Halloween-seasonal since 2009, including the 1972 Franken Berry Stool scare and collector market.
Monster Munch
Monster Munch: British baked corn claw snack launched 1977 by Smiths as The Prime Monster, now a Walkers/PepsiCo brand; core flavours Pickled Onion, Roast Beef, Flamin' Hot; separate French Vico/Intersnack brand.
Morrisons
Morrisons (Wm Morrison Supermarkets) is a UK supermarket chain founded in Bradford in 1899, made national by the 2004 Safeway acquisition, and owned by private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice since its 2021 £7bn take-private.
Mr. Peanut
Mr. Peanut (Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe) is the top-hatted, monocled mascot of Planters snack nuts, created in 1916 from schoolboy Antonio Gentile's contest sketch, trademarked 1918, voiced from 2010, and famously killed off and reborn as Baby Nut in the 2020 Super Bowl campaign.
Mrs. Butterworth's
Mrs. Butterworth's is an American table syrup and pancake mix brand launched in 1961, sold in a bottle shaped like a matronly woman. Owned by Conagra Brands since 2018, it underwent a brand and packaging review in June 2020.
Muhtar Kent
Muhtar Kent (Ahmet Muhtar Kent), Turkish-American executive born 1953 in New York; Coca-Cola CEO 2008-2017 and chairman 2009-2019, earlier led Coca-Cola Turkey, Eastern Europe, and Efes Beverage Group; not the Turkish muhtar (neighborhood headman) institution.
Munster cheese
Munster (Munster-Géromé) is a French PDO soft washed-rind cow's milk cheese from the Vosges (Alsace/Lorraine), AOC since 1969, pungent Brevibacterium linens rind, mild paste, distinct from American Muenster.
Nabisco
Nabisco, short for National Biscuit Company, is the American cookie and cracker brand founded in 1898, maker of Oreo, Ritz, and Chips Ahoy!, now owned by Mondelēz International after ownership by R.J. Reynolds, KKR, Philip Morris, and Kraft.
Nancy Green
Nancy Green (1834-1923), born enslaved in Kentucky, was the first portrayer of Aunt Jemima, debuting at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair for R.T. Davis Milling Company; the brand was retired as a racial stereotype in 2020-2021.
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is Nigeria's federal regulator of food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, packaged water, chemicals, and detergents, established in 1992.
National Food Security Act, 2013
National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA), India's Right to Food Act: 2013 law entitling 67% of Indians (75% rural, 50% urban) to 5 kg monthly subsidized foodgrains at Rs 1/2/3 per kg, plus child nutrition and maternity benefits.
National Medical Products Administration
National Medical Products Administration (NMPA, 国家药品监督管理局), formerly CFDA, is China's regulator of drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics under SAMR, handling registration, approvals, inspections, and the revised device GMP effective 2026.
National Minimum Drinking Age Act
The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-363) withholds federal highway funds from states allowing alcohol purchase under 21; upheld in South Dakota v. Dole; all states complied by 1988.
Nell Newman
Nell Newman (Elinor Theresa Newman, born 1959), daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, co-founded Newman's Own Organics: The Second Generation in 1993; organic pretzels first product, independent 2001, over $50 million in royalties to charity, tenure ended 2014.