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C. W. Post
C. W. Post (1854–1914), American cereal manufacturer, founded the Postum Cereal Company in Battle Creek, Michigan, and created Postum, Grape-Nuts, and Post Toasties; also known for health-claim advertising, open-shop activism, and founding Post City, Texas.
Cadbury
Cadbury is a British chocolate brand founded in 1824 by John Cadbury in Birmingham, famous for Dairy Milk (1905), Bournville, Creme Egg, and Flake. Owned by Mondelez International since the 2010 Kraft takeover, its top markets are the UK, Australia, and India.
Cadbury Creme Egg
Cadbury Creme Egg: milk chocolate Easter candy with white-and-yellow fondant filling, launched 1971 by Cadbury (Mondelēz); over 220 million sold yearly in Britain; predecessors from 1923.
Cadbury Roses
Cadbury Roses: assorted wrapped chocolates brand launched by Cadbury in 1938 in response to Quality Street, now owned by Mondelēz; known for soft centres, twist-to-flow-wrap changes, and shrinking tub sizes.
Calcium propionate
Calcium propionate (calcium propanoate, E 282, INS 282, CAS 4075-81-4) is the calcium salt of propionic acid, a GRAS mold inhibitor used in bread, cheese, and dairy-cow feed, ineffective against yeast.
Caleb Bradham
Caleb Davis Bradham (1867-1934), New Bern, North Carolina pharmacist, invented Pepsi-Cola as "Brad's Drink" (1893), renamed it in 1898, founded the Pepsi-Cola Company in 1902, and lost it to 1923 sugar-price bankruptcy.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Canada's federal food, animal, and plant health regulator established 1 April 1997 under the CFIA Act; administers the Safe Food for Canadians Act and related statutes, conducts inspections, and manages about 300 food recalls yearly.
Canning
Canning preserves food by heat processing in sealed airtight containers, developed by Nicolas Appert in Napoleonic France. Key facts: pH 4.6 divides water-bath from pressure canning; 12D botulinum standard at 121.1 °C.
Cap'n Crunch
Cap'n Crunch is a sweetened corn and oat breakfast cereal line introduced in 1963 by Quaker Oats, a PepsiCo division since 2001, led by mascot Cap'n Horatio Magellan Crunch and known for staying crunchy in milk.
Caramel color
Caramel color (E150a-d, INS 150a-d, Class I-IV) is a dark brown colorant made by heating carbohydrates with acids, alkalis, or salts; four classes differ by reactants, with JECFA and EFSA ADIs and 4-MEI limits.
Caramelization
Caramelization is the heat-driven, non-enzymatic browning of sugars alone, distinct from the Maillard reaction, producing brown pigments and caramel aromas; thresholds vary by sugar, e.g. fructose about 150 °C.
Cargill family
The Cargill family, also known as the Cargill-MacMillan family, is the American dynasty that has owned and controlled Cargill Inc., the Minneapolis food and agriculture company, since 1865.
Carrageenan
Carrageenan (E 407, INS 407, CAS 9000-07-1), also called Garrageenin, is a sulfated polygalactan extracted from red seaweed, with kappa, iota, and lambda types used as gelling, thickening, and stabilizing food additives.
Carrefour
Carrefour, also known as Carrefour Group or Groupe Carrefour, is a French multinational food retailer founded in 1959, best known for opening France's first hypermarket in 1963.
CGIAR
CGIAR, formerly the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, is a global agricultural research partnership founded in 1971 by the World Bank, FAO, and UNDP, coordinating research centers, a multi-donor trust fund, and a 2025-30 portfolio of science programs.
Chaleo Yoovidhya
Chaleo Yoovidhya was a Thai businessman who created the energy drink Krating Daeng in 1976 and in 1984 partnered with Dietrich Mateschitz to found Red Bull GmbH.
Chalerm Yoovidhya
Chalerm Yoovidhya (เฉลิม อยู่วิทยา), Thai businessman born 1950, eldest son of Red Bull co-founder Chaleo Yoovidhya; head of the family holding 51% of Red Bull GmbH, founder of Siam Winery, Thailand's richest per Forbes, and transferred his 2% stake to a Geneva trust in 2025.
Charles Louis Fleischmann
Charles Louis Fleischmann (1834 or 1835–1897), Hungarian-American yeast manufacturer, founded Fleischmann Yeast Company in Cincinnati in 1868 with brother Maximilian and James Gaff, introduced compressed yeast to America, promoted it at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, and built the world's largest yeast plant in Peekskill.
Charoen Pokphand (เจริญโภคภัณฑ์)
Charoen Pokphand (เจริญโภคภัณฑ์), CP Group, a Thai conglomerate founded 1921 as a Bangkok seed shop by the Chia family, grown into eight business lines in over 21 countries, spanning agro-industry (CPF), 7-Eleven, Makro, Lotus's, and True Corporation.
Chatime (日出茶太)
Chatime (日出茶太) is a Taiwanese bubble tea franchise founded in 2005 under La Kaffa International, known for pearl milk tea, with 1,400-plus stores in over 63 countries and a 2024 Gen Z-focused "Cups of Joy" rebrand.
Cheetos
Cheetos (チートス) is a cheese-flavored puffed cornmeal snack brand created in 1948 by the Frito Company's C.E. Doolin and now made by Frito-Lay, a PepsiCo division. Sold in over 40 countries; includes Crunchy, Puffs, and Flamin' Hot lines.
Cheez Whiz
Cheez Whiz is Kraft Heinz's pasteurized process cheese spread, invented for Welsh rarebit and launched 1952-1953; thick orange sauce, 410 mg sodium per serving, sold in the US, Canada, and the Philippines, distinct from Easy Cheese and Velveeta.
Cheez-It
Cheez-It, the American baked cheese cracker brand introduced in 1921 by Green & Green of Dayton, Ohio; later Sunshine Biscuits, Keebler, Kellogg, and Kellanova; owned by Mars since 2025; about 20 flavors.
Chef Boyardee
Chef Boyardee is an American canned-pasta brand founded in 1928 by Italian immigrant chef Ettore "Hector" Boiardi, whose phonetically spelled name and portrait brand the products. Sold to American Home Foods in 1946, later Conagra, and to Hometown Food Company in 2025 for $600 million.
Chewy (company)
Chewy, also known as Chewy.com, is an American e-commerce company selling pet food, supplies, medications, and health services, launched in 2011 and publicly listed since 2019.
Chiclets
Chiclets is a candy-coated chewing gum brand of small square pieces, named after chicle tree sap. Introduced by Fleer in 1904, it passed from American Chicle to Perfetti Van Melle in 2023; US production ended in 2016.
Chlorine dioxide in food packaging
Chlorine dioxide in food packaging, or ClO2 active packaging, generates chlorine dioxide gas in-package from sodium chlorite precursors to kill microbes and extend shelf life; covered by FDA GRAS notices GRN 62 and GRN 161.
Chobani
Chobani, American food company founded by Hamdi Ulukaya in 2005 in New Berlin, New York; top U.S. Greek yogurt brand, owner of La Colombe and Daily Harvest; $800 million Keurig Dr Pepper stake buyback in 2026.
Chupa Chups
Chupa Chups is a Spanish lollipop brand founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat, famous for its Salvador Dali daisy logo and 1995 Mir space-station first; owned by Perfetti Van Melle since 2006.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Cinnamon Toast Crunch, sold in some markets as Cini Minis, is a General Mills breakfast cereal of cinnamon and sugar coated wheat and rice squares, introduced in 1984.