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Cioccolato di Modica
Cioccolato di Modica (Modica chocolate) is a Sicilian cold-processed chocolate of bitter cocoa paste and sugar, never conched, grainy and crumbly; first EU chocolate PGI, registered 2018.
Circle K
Circle K is a global convenience store and fuel station chain founded in 1951 in El Paso, Texas, by Fred Hervey; owned by Alimentation Couche-Tard since 2003, it operates about 17,200 stores across 27 countries as Couche-Tard's worldwide banner.
Clean-in-place
Clean-in-place (CIP) cleans installed process equipment without disassembly by circulating cleaning solutions; used in dairies, food plants, and pharma, with raw/pasteurized system segregation, monitored temperature, time, and concentration, and validated rinse or swab sampling.
Codex Alimentarius
Codex Alimentarius, Latin for "Food code", is the FAO/WHO collection of international food standards, guidelines and codes of practice, adopted since 1963 by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and referenced by the WTO SPS Agreement.
Coffee shop al salam
Coffee shop al salam (كوفي شوب السلام) names several unrelated cafés: a 24-hour cash-only café in Shubra El-Kheima, Egypt; a Baghdad venue mapped as a casino; a hospital coffee shop tenant in Riyadh; and the Al Salam Hotel Khartoum coffee shop.
Common Agricultural Policy
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP): the EU's longest standing policy, created 1962, supporting farmers, markets, and rural areas with €386.6 billion for 2021-2027 via direct payments, market measures, and rural development.
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), the Philippines' land redistribution program under Republic Act 6657 of 1988, extended by CARPER in 2009; over 4.8 million hectares distributed to about 2.8 million beneficiaries, with parcelization and debt condonation ongoing toward a 2028 completion target.
Convenience store
Convenience store: small-format retail shop selling snacks, beverages, groceries, and often fuel, with extended hours; originated 1927 in Texas (7-Eleven), 151,975 US stores selling 80% of US fuel, and a distinct dense Japanese konbini variant.
Cookie Crisp
Cookie Crisp: chocolate chip cookie flavored breakfast cereal launched in 1977 by Ralston Purina, now made by General Mills (US) and Nestlé (UK, Middle East); mascots Cookie Jarvis, Cookie Crook, Chip the Wolf.
Cool Whip
Cool Whip is Kraft Heinz's frozen whipped topping, invented by William A. Mitchell at General Foods' Birds Eye division and launched in 1966. Made of water, corn syrups, hydrogenated vegetable oil, and stabilizers, about 200 million tubs sell yearly.
Copper ion antimicrobial packaging
Copper ion antimicrobial packaging embeds copper or copper-releasing microparticles in food packaging films to kill microbes and extend shelf life; FDA GRN 1147 cleared copper(II) ion at 100 mg/m² in polyolefin packaging.
Corn flakes
Corn flakes are toasted corn breakfast flakes invented at the Battle Creek Sanitarium by John Harvey and Will Kellogg in the 1890s; Will Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906 to mass-produce Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
Corn Laws
Corn Laws: British protectionist grain tariffs and import restrictions enacted in 1815 under Lord Liverpool (wheat threshold 80 shillings per quarter), repealed in June 1846 by Sir Robert Peel, splitting the Conservative Party and beginning Britain's free trade era.
Corrugated fiberboard
Corrugated fiberboard, also called corrugated cardboard, is a paper sandwich of fluted medium glued between linerboard, used for shipping boxes. Covers structure, 1871 Jones patent, flutes, ECT testing, FEFCO codes, and recycling rates above 90% in Europe.
Costco
Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American membership warehouse club retailer headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, operating 928 warehouses worldwide in 2026 and selling brand-name goods at low prices.
Cracker Jack
Cracker Jack is an American snack brand of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts, sold since 1893 and best known for the small prize packaged in every box.
Crisco
Crisco is an American brand of vegetable shortening, cooking oil, and cooking spray, introduced by Procter & Gamble in 1911 as the first shortening made entirely from vegetable oil.
Curing (food preservation)
Curing (food preservation): adding salt, nitrate or nitrite, and sometimes sugar to meat or fish to preserve it, inhibit Clostridium botulinum, and give cured meat its pink color and flavor; distinct from pickling and smoking alone.
Curing salt
Curing salt (Prague Powder, Insta Cure, pink curing salt) is table salt blended with sodium nitrite, 6.25% in Cure #1, plus nitrate in Cure #2, used at 0.25% of meat weight to prevent botulism and fix cured color.
Daim bar
Daim bar (formerly Dajm, once Dime Bar in the UK): Swedish thin chocolate bar of crunchy almond caramel in milk chocolate, created by Marabou in the early 1950s, inspired by the Heath Bar, renamed Daim in 1990, now a Mondelēz brand made in Upplands Väsby, Sweden.
Danger zone (food safety)
The danger zone in food safety is the temperature range, roughly 5–60°C (41–135°F per FDA Food Code; 40–140°F per USDA), where bacteria multiply rapidly; rules limit time in it and mandate two-stage cooling.
Daniel Lubetzky
Daniel Lubetzky (born 1968, Mexico City) is the Mexican-American founder of KIND Snacks, sold to Mars, a Shark Tank investor since 2024, and founder of PeaceWorks, OneVoice, Camino Partners, and the Builders Movement.
Danone
Danone, French food and beverage multinational founded 1919 in Barcelona by Isaac Carasso, named after son Daniel; Paris headquarters, Euronext Paris listed; three categories (dairy and plant-based, waters, specialized nutrition), €27.3bn 2025 sales, B Corp certified, Société à Mission pioneer.
Dave Dahl (entrepreneur)
Dave Dahl (born 1963) is the American co-founder of Dave's Killer Bread, launched at Portland Farmers Market in 2005 after his 15 years in prison; sold to Flowers Foods for $275 million in 2015.
Dean & DeLuca
Dean & DeLuca, also known as Dean and DeLuca, is an American gourmet grocery brand founded in SoHo, New York, in 1977, known for imported foods and minimalist store design.
Del Monte Foods
Del Monte Foods was an American packaged food company in Walnut Creek, California, known for canned fruits, vegetables, and tomatoes under the Del Monte brand, a name since 1886.
Delhaize Group
Delhaize Group was a Belgian food retail company founded in 1867 in Charleroi, known for Food Lion and Hannaford, that merged into Ahold in 2016.
Delicatessen
Delicatessen (deli): shop or supermarket counter selling prepared foods such as cold meats, cheeses, and salads; from German Delikatessen (1877); retail delis are a major source of Listeria monocytogenes risk.
Deliveroo
Deliveroo is a British food delivery platform founded in London in 2013 by Will Shu, operating a three-sided marketplace of consumers, riders and merchants. Acquired by DoorDash for £2.9 billion in October 2025; UK Supreme Court ruled its riders are not workers.
Dieter Schwarz
Dieter Schwarz (born 1939, Heilbronn) is a German entrepreneur who built Lidl & Schwarz into the Schwarz Group, parent of the Lidl discount stores and Kaufland hypermarkets.