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Great Bengal famine of 1770
Great Bengal famine of 1770, Chhiattor-er Monnontor (Famine of '76), a catastrophic famine in Company-ruled Bengal killing about 10 million, one third of the population, while the East India Company kept collecting revenue.
Great Chinese Famine
Great Chinese Famine (三年大饥荒), 1959–1961 famine during the Great Leap Forward; largest in human history with an estimated 16.5–45 million excess deaths, driven mainly by procurement and Leap policies rather than weather.
Great Famine of 1315–1317
The Great Famine of 1315–1317, also called the European Great Famine, was the worst subsistence crisis in European history, hitting northern Europe from Ireland to Poland after torrential rains of 1314–1316 ruined harvests and raised English wheat prices eightfold, killing roughly 10–20 percent of England's population.
Great Famine of 1876–1878
The Great Famine of 1876–1878, also called the Madras famine, was a famine in British India that killed more than five million people after the monsoon failed.
Grey Goose (vodka)
Grey Goose is a French super-premium vodka created in 1997 by Sidney Frank with cellar master François Thibault, made from Picardie winter wheat and Gensac spring water, distilled once at 40% ABV, and owned by Bacardi since 2004.
Grocery store
A grocery store, also known as a grocery shop, is a retail shop selling a broad range of foods, including fresh produce, canned and frozen items, and meats.
Groupe Artémis
Groupe Artémis, the Pinault family's private investment holding founded in 1992 by François Pinault; owns 42.3% of Kering, plus Christie's, CAA, Château Latour, Ponant, Le Point, and the Pinault Collection.
Grubhub
Grubhub: Chicago-founded (2004) American online food ordering and delivery platform, merged with Seamless 2013, IPO 2014 (NYSE: GRUB), bought by Just Eat Takeaway for $7.3B in 2021, sold to Wonder for $650M in 2025; about 8% U.S. market share.
Grupo Bimbo
Grupo Bimbo (Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V.) is the world's largest baking company, founded in Mexico City on 2 December 1945. It operates directly in 39 countries with sales over US$23 billion, brands including Bimbo, Marinela, Barcel, and Takis, and trades on the BMV as BIMBO.
Guar gum
Guar gum (guaran, E 412) is a galactomannan from guar bean endosperm, a cold-water-soluble thickener and stabilizer used in food, pharma, and oil fracking; India supplies 80% of world guar.
Gum arabic
Gum arabic (acacia gum, E 414) is a water-soluble exudate from Acacia senegal trees, dominated by Sudanese production, prized as a low-viscosity emulsifier for beverages, confectionery, and pharmaceuticals.
Gutter oil (地沟油)
Gutter oil (地沟油) is illicit Chinese cooking oil refined from kitchen waste, meat-processing waste, or overused frying oil; known for table-oil scandals, weak detection methods, criminal prosecutions, and biodiesel conversion.
H Mart
H Mart (H마트), Han Ah Reum, is the largest Korean-owned Asian supermarket chain in the US and Canada, founded 1982 in Woodside, Queens by Il Yeon Kwon, HQ Lyndhurst NJ, 97-plus stores with food halls and Super H Mart formats.
H-E-B
H-E-B, also H.E. Butt Grocery Company, is a San Antonio, Texas-based private supermarket chain founded in 1905 by Florence Butt in Kerrville with $60; about 400 stores in Texas and Mexico, 175,000 employee-owner Partners, leading Texas grocery market share.
Haldiram's (हल्दीराम)
Haldiram's (हल्दीराम), founded 1937 in Bikaner by Ganga Bhishan Agarwal, is India's largest snack and convenience food company, known for Bikaneri bhujia, namkeen, and sweets, with Delhi, Nagpur, and Kolkata family divisions and recent Temasek and Alpha Wave investment.
Hamburger Helper
Hamburger Helper (now Helper) is an American boxed meal kit of pasta, rice, or potatoes plus sauce mix, launched nationally in 1971 by General Mills under Betty Crocker and sold to Eagle Foods in 2022 for about $610 million.
Hamdi Ulukaya
Hamdi Ulukaya (born 1972) is a Turkish-American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Chobani, America's No. 1 Greek yogurt brand, and founder of the Tent Partnership for Refugees; he bought a shuttered Kraft plant in New Berlin, New York in 2005 with an SBA loan.
Haribo
Haribo (HARIBO, from HAns RIegel BOnn) is a German family-owned confectionery company founded in Bonn in 1920 by Hans Riegel, inventor of the gummy bear (Dancing Bear, later Goldbears), now a global gummy market leader.
Harris Teeter
Harris Teeter is a Matthews, North Carolina-based supermarket chain, co-founded in 1960 by W.T. Harris and Willis Teeter and owned by Kroger since 2014, operating 250-plus stores across seven states and Washington, D.C.
Heifer International
Heifer International, founded 1944 by Dan West as Heifers for Relief, is a Little Rock, Arkansas 501(c)(3) charity providing livestock and training to smallholder farmers, known for its Passing on the Gift model.
Heinz 57
Heinz 57 is both the "57 Varieties" slogan coined by H.J. Heinz in the 1890s after seeing a shoe ad, despite the company selling over 60 products, and Heinz 57 Sauce, a 1911 tomato-based steak sauce.
Heinz Tomato Ketchup
Heinz Tomato Ketchup (Heinz Ketchup, Heinz catsup), the flagship condiment of H. J. Heinz/Kraft Heinz since 1876 Pittsburgh: corn-syrup-sweetened US recipe, sugar-based European recipe, 57 Varieties, ~650 million bottles a year.
Hellmann's and Best Foods
Hellmann's and Best Foods are two brand names for the same mayonnaise product line, split at the Rocky Mountains in the United States (Hellmann's east, Best Foods west). Founded from Richard Hellmann's Manhattan delicatessen in 1905 and Best Foods' San Francisco plant, both brands share the blue-ribbon logo and are owned by Unilever.
HelloFresh
HelloFresh is a German meal kit delivery company founded in Berlin in 2011 that ships pre-portioned ingredients and recipes on a subscription basis, describing itself as the world's biggest.
Henri Nestlé
Henri Nestlé (Heinrich Nestle, 1814–1890), German-born Swiss pharmacist and entrepreneur in Vevey, founded Nestlé; his 1867 Farine Lactée infant cereal, gold-medaled in Paris, sold 1.1 million packages by 1875 before he sold the firm.
Hershey's Kisses
Hershey's Kisses are bite-sized teardrop milk chocolates first made in 1907 in Derry, Pennsylvania, hand-wrapped until 1921, trademarked in 2000, and produced at over 80 million pieces per day.
Hi-Chew (ハイチュウ)
Hi-Chew (ハイチュウ, HI-CHEW) is Morinaga Seika's soft gelatin-based fruit chew, launched 1975 from 1913 Milk Caramel technology, sold in 30+ countries, 233 Japanese flavors, US production since 2013.
Hindustan Unilever
Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), formerly Hindustan Lever Limited, is India's largest FMCG company and Unilever's Indian subsidiary, formed by a 1956 merger, renamed in 2007, with FY26 turnover of ₹63,763 crores.
Holodomor
Holodomor (Голодомор), the man-made famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine under Stalin, caused by forced collectivization and grain requisition; killed at least 4 million; recognized as genocide by Ukraine, disputed internationally.
Honey Smacks
Honey Smacks, launched as Sugar Smacks in 1953, is Kellogg's sweetened puffed-wheat cereal, renamed in 1980, over 50% sugar by weight, mascot Dig 'Em Frog, recalled for Salmonella in 2018.