24 Dec Kauai hits retail shelves with PnP frozen foods range
Kauai has extended its brand onto retail shelves with the launch of its frozen product range in partnership with Pick n Pay.
21 Dec The dark side of plant-based food – it’s more about money
If you were to believe newspapers and dietary advice leaflets, you’d probably think that doctors and nutritionists are the people guiding us through the thicket of what to believe when it comes to food. But food trends are far more political – and economically motivated – than it seems.
21 Dec Denny goes 100% compostable for SPAR
Denny Mushrooms has launched new sustainable packaging with 100% compostable punnets for selected SPAR shops around the country.
20 Dec Woolies launches new tomato packaging
Woolworths’ new speciality tomato range is now packaged in a kraft box base which it says will save on many tons of plastic.
19 Dec NOSA acquires Deltamune’s laboratory business
The NOSA Group has acquired 100% of the Deltamune Group’s laboratory business (a leader in diagnostic testing and salmonella serotyping) effective 1 December 2019.
17 Dec Mega merger: IFF triumphant in DuPont win
International Flavors & Fragrances has agreed to buy DuPont’s nutrition and biosciences business for $26.2bn, the latest acquisition by the New York company as it seeks to become a major supplier to the consumer goods industry.
15 Dec Mintel Global Food and Drink Trends to 2030
Mintel, the experts in "what consumers want and why", has announced three key trends that will shape the global food, drink, and foodservice industries over the next 10 years....
11 Dec The FiE Innovation Awards 2019
The biennial major food ingredients expo, FiE 2019, has just come and gone in Paris. Here are the winners of its Innovation Awards, honouring professionals and companies for their ability to demonstrate and stimulate innovation, and for their contribution to the industry.
10 Dec TIME’s 100 Best Inventions – food-bev laureates
Every year, TIME highlights the Best Inventions that are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun. Here are the food-bev winners for 2019....
10 Dec Beliefs that built breakfast
BIOGRAPHICS is a Youtube channel and website dedicated to providing thoughtful and interesting biographies on the people who helped shaped the world. Do take a look at the story behind Kellogg's and other breakfast cereals.... Extraordinary and fascinating stuff!
10 Dec Unilever opens €85m Food Innovation Centre
Unilever has invested €85-million in a new Food Innovation Centre in the Netherlands, as it looks to address major global food system challenges.
10 Dec Kitchen Wars! Disrupting SA’s traditional restaurants and food delivery
Ghost kitchens, a hot trend in food delivery, are now also gaining traction in South Africa. Darth Kitchens, a new dark kitchen operation founded by some of the brightest minds in SA’s food space, has launched its first 400sqm purpose-built, state-of-the-art facility in Cape Town.
10 Dec Cross-bred Cosmic Crunch apples can stay fresh for a whole year
Move over Granny Smith and Red Delicious, there’s a hot new apple in town and it’s built to outlast them all - the Cosmic Crunch apple has just hit shelves across the US.
10 Dec A 6,000-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yoghurts
A paper just published recounts the story of how a chance encounter between a fruit fly and a pail of milk around 5,500 years ago gave us what we now call cheese.
10 Dec Tiger Brands: a once proud company on its knees
The Financial Mail has not been kind to Tiger Brands of late, pasting its handling of the listeriosis crisis, the class action lawsuit that's resulted, the implosion in its share price and more. Here's its latest article on SA's biggest food company.
10 Dec What happens when you eat miracle berries?
Miracle berries cause sour foods to taste sweet, but do they have limits? The American Chemical Society decided to find out...
09 Dec Flavour of 2020? Has to be Classic Blueberry, says Firmenich
The world's biggest flavour company, Firmenich, has hailed “Classic Blueberry” as its flavour of the year for 2020 - citing the fruit’s longstanding association with wellbeing and its role in ushering a new wave of F&B options for global consumers.
08 Dec Pantone announces ‘Classic Blue’ as 2020 Colour of the Year
Colour company, Pantone, has unveiled its latest Colour of the Year for 2020, choosing Classic Blue, or Pantone 19-4052 for its ‘reassuring qualities’.
07 Dec South Africans eager for less packaging, better recycling
A new global Ipsos survey finds 80% of "connected" people around the world believe manufacturers should be obliged to help with the recycling and re-use of the packaging they produce. This sentiment is shared by 86% of South Africans who have access to the Internet.
07 Dec All aboard the plant-based train
The plant-based foods trend is an opportunity for every type of business. And it is a great example of how product development skills can create new markets, writes Julian Mellentin of New Nutrition Business.