A simple potato extract may limit weight gain from a diet that is high in fat and refined carbohydrates, according to scientists at Montreal's McGill University. The results of their recent study were so surprising that the investigators repeated the experiment just to be sure.
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Local hygiene company, Pescatech, has launched a new product – BioFinder, a product that can detect biofilms in 30 seconds on any surface in the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
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Described as the "biggest and best hospitality show on the African continent", the Food & Hospitality Africa show in 2016 is the merger between Hostex, Africa's leading expo in the industry for close on three decades, and IFEA, the international food and drink event that...
Nestlé has successfully protected its trademark for the Kit Kat shape in South Africa against International Foodstuffs’ (IFFCO’s) Tiffany Break brand.
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Last week Unilever announced it will split its US and European spreads operations into a standalone unit, a first step toward a possible exit from a struggling business that the company has failed to turn around over the past two years.
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Investors and entrepreneurs behind some of the world's newest industries have started to put their money and tech talents into farming - the world's oldest industry - with an audacious and ambitious agenda: to make sure there is enough food for the 10 billion people...
This trend briefing, compiled by Food Engineering and sponsored by B2B cloud platform provider, Covisint Corporation of Detroit, Mich, outlines some of the main food and beverage trends happening now and that are expected throughout 2015 that will affect your business. It also touches on...
This trend briefing, compiled by Food Engineering and sponsored by B2B cloud platform provider, Covisint Corporation of Detroit, Mich, outlines some of the main food and beverage trends happening now and that are expected throughout 2015 that will affect your business. It also touches on...
It is hard not to be fascinated by the food choices of political monsters, an area of learning where we can match our enthusiasms and dislikes, against people whom we otherwise take to be not-quite-human. Their culinary foibles are now revealed in Dictators' Dinners: A...
Anderson Partners is an American marketing communications firm specialising in the global food ingredient industry. It recently published a series of articles on "Food Science vs the Food Babe—Who Controls the Story?", a guide to push back against the uninformed and unscientific opinions of misguided...
While food marketers are deciding whether a new innovation is a fad or a long-term trend, they often miss opportunities to stake a claim early and make a significant amount of money. Even fads have legs, if you get in in time. In a new...
While food marketers are deciding whether a new innovation is a fad or a long-term trend, they often miss opportunities to stake a claim early and make a significant amount of money. Even fads have legs, if you get in in time. In a new...
People who go through chemotherapy say one of the most frustrating side effects is that even their favourite foods taste awful. Pasta tastes like cardboard, meat tastes metallic. Patients have no desire to eat and end up getting fewer calories and less nutrition when they...
For practically our whole history of cooking and eating, we've gotten our spices and most flavours (not to mention all of the other basic nutrients that keep us alive) straight from plants. But researchers and biotech companies are starting to produce some of these nutrients...
Over the past 30 years Barbeque Rib Manufacturers, trading as BRM Brands, has become the market leader in value added meat and poultry manufacturing in South Africa, providing national retailers with top quality ribs. The company recently commissioned a greenfield factory in Mostyn Park, Roodepoort.
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Local olive oil producers are in for a bumper year, courtesy of Spain, where drought is expected to cut production by more than 50%.
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A new report from the UK's Leatherhead Food Research has revealed that, many problems aside, the global market for food and drinks offering functional health benefits still continues to increase in size.
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A new report from the UK's Leatherhead Food Research has revealed that, many problems aside, the global market for food and drinks offering functional health benefits still continues to increase in size.
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It's that time once again where any number of commentators, research houses, analysts and media pull back the curtain and reveal their annual food-drink and shopping predictions. Here are those from Phil Lempert in the US, well known as the 'Supermarket Guru', and based on...