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Walmart Neighborhood Market Wants to Open in Somerville (With Rock-Bottom Prices!); Vitamins Might Not Be So Great After All

• More details emerge about Walmart Neighborhood Market, the food-only Walmart that hopes to launch in Somerville. One star attraction? Ultra-cheap Ro-Tel, a canned combo of diced tomatoes and green chiles. [Globe]

• Vitamins, long thought to be if not helpful then at least harmless, have been linked to higher mortality in older women. [BBC]

• Summer weather was tough on the peanut crop, which will force peanut-butter manufacturers to raise prices. Better stock up on Skippy. [WSJ via Pocono Record]

• A new app lets travelers order food from airport restaurants via their iPhones and receive gate-side delivery. Fellow travelers will love you when you bring that tuna salad on the plane. [NRN]

• It seems that when cacao was first exported from South America by Europeans, they didn’t get all the really good stuff. As such, there’s more flavor variety lurking in the jungles of Peru. [NPR]

• If you want to see the full list of winners for this year’s Association of Food Journalists awards, tool on over to Eater. [Eater]

Walmart Neighborhood Market Wants to Open in Somerville (With Rock-Bottom