Food

Growing consumer prices have irked many in Lithuania a year and a half after the country switched to the euro. While the prime minister has blamed it on retailer mark-ups, economists point to other reasons.

Food prices in Lithuanian supermarkets have grown because retailers have increased their margins, according to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius.

Drama Burger’s sizzling reviews continue to pile up as high as its burgers after the Lithuanian burger chain opened its first US restaurant in Tampa, Florida.

Lithuania has sent its first shipment of meat products to the United States, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian government could collect more revenue from the value-added tax (VAT) by lowering the rate and thus cutting the black market, according to a SEB Bank economist.

Lithuania's ruling coalition has postponed a decision on cutting value-added tax (VAT) on basic food products until after the Finance Ministry estimates the measure's impact of public finances.

The Lithuanian parliament is to consider value-added tax (VAT) exemptions for food staples in a bid to dissuade Lithuanian shoppers from going to shop in Poland.

Lithuanian shoppers have been making shopping trips to neighbouring Poland where despite comparable living standards prices of food and other goods are considerably cheaper.

Lithuanian company Suslavičius-Felix, which makes a range of sauces and ketchup and is owned by Norway’s Orkla Group, is moving production of international brands from its Lithuania facility at Kaunas to Orkla Foods’ production plants in Latvia, Sweden and Austria.

A number of quality control and labelling violations have been detected in imported Polish dairy products, according to Lithuania’s State Food and Veterinary Service.

The famous Lithuanian cheese Džiugas has been found in Russian stores but marked as “Made in Argentina”.

Lithuania’s Drama Burger has officially launched its first restaurant in the United States to sizzling reviews from the local media in Tampa, Florida.

Over the last decade, Lithuanians' dietary tastes have undergone a major shift and that reflects changes in society as much as changes in taste.

Two Lithuanian supermarket chains have decided to remove all Mars production from their shelves after reports of possibly unsafe products of the US chocolate maker.

Some chocolate bars from a shipment recalled by the American company Mars found their way into Lithuanian shops, the company's representatives said on Wednesday, retracting earlier claims that no possibly unsafe products were on the market. Lithuania's food regulation authority says it is investigat...

While six large chocolate and chocolate sweet companies dominate the market for chocolate in Lithuania and create thousands of tons of treats every year, recently, smaller chocolate producers have been making headway in both Lithuanian and international markets by offering high-quality products.

“Dinner in the canteen: 'Oh look, there's cheese!' - a soldier exclaimed. 'No, its for the Americans,' the chef answered strictly” - this was an exchange shared by Lithuanian journalist Ignas Krupavičius, who is currently serving as a conscript in the Lithuanian army.

Some Armenian wines and Ukrainian non-alcoholic beers have been banned by Lithuanian authorities for non-compliance with quality assurance indicators.

Most Americans believe they eat healthy when in fact they don't, says a dietician from Lithuania who is teaching Alaskans how to make a proper fish soup.