03 Mar Tate & Lyle highlights four key food-bev trends for 2011
03 Mar Researching innovative health solutions from indigenous plants
Afriplex - the well-known South African manufacturer of nutraceutical and healthcare products – has signed a landmark agreement with the CSIR to commercially develop a range of herbal products from traditional medicinal plants....
03 Mar Groot Constantia is South Africa’s oldest brand
03 Mar SA plants more GM crops
South Africa’s genetically modified crop area rose 6% to 2.3 million hectares in the 2010/11 season from 2.16 million hectares in the season before, an industry report showed this week. South Africa, the world’s number eight producer of GM crops but Africa’s...
03 Mar Frito-Lay presents quieter compostable SunChips bag
Frito-Lay hopes to make some big noise in the US with a quieter version of its biodegradable SunChips bag....
03 Mar What is causing food prices to soar and what can be done about it?
Around the world, the food system is in crisis. Prices have rocketed; they are now higher in real terms than at any time since 1984...
03 Mar New insights to bacterial communication
Bacteria build nanotube channels to share the innermost contents of their cells with individuals of the same or different species, researchers in Israel have found. The newly discovered form of bacterial communication may shed light on interspecies collaboration....
03 Mar SABMiller to build new brewery in Nigeria
SABMiller Africa has announced that it will invest over $100 million in building a new greenfield brewery in Onitsha, in South Eastern Nigeria, upping its presence in the Heineken-dominated Nigerian beer market.
...03 Mar EU ministers to ban fish discards
Ministers from across the EU will take the first steps this week towards ending the practice of discarding fish at sea, in the most radical change to fisheries policy in 40 years.
...03 Mar Villain coconut oil charms health food world
Coconut oil is supposed to be the devil itself in liquid form, with more poisonous artery-clogging, cholesterol-raising, heart-attack-causing saturated fat than butter, lard or beef tallow. Now, however, vegans and scientists are helping give coconut oil a makeover, with many of the latter...
03 Mar Nestlé’s first peelable ice cream roll-out worldwide
Many would think that a peelable ice cream is unbelievable. But it is now a reality from Nestlé in the form of an innovative, fun and unusual ice cream stick, which is about to be rolled out across the globe this year, after its...
03 Mar Almond milk – New kid on the dairy-free block?
While soy milk continues to dominate the growing dairy-free market in most countries of the world, there are signs that newer alternatives are emerging into the mainstream grocery sector, using alternative ingredients such as rice, oats and, more recently, almonds.
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03 Mar A new era in green packaging for SA
Green. . . The word itself may becoming a touch hackneyed, but interest in enviro-friendly packaging solutions is fresher than ever. Timeously coming to market in a joint venture that will open a myriad of new green packaging possibilities for local FMCG companies is Sappi...
03 Mar A new era in green packaging for SA
Green. . . The word itself may becoming a touch hackneyed, but interest in enviro-friendly packaging solutions is fresher than ever. Timeously coming to market in a joint venture that will open a myriad of new green packaging possibilities for local FMCG companies is Sappi...
03 Mar UK: Health officials stop sales of breast milk ice cream
They'll be no more milk from mommy for customers of The Icecreamists, after local government officials confiscated ice cream made from human breast milk....
28 Feb The new US craze for tea
There is a tea party going on in the United States...
27 Feb Food Bites 2010
Brilliant bits of food industry insights from the weekly newsletterFood bites...
26 Feb Is probiotic fruit juice the next new beverage category
The juice drink market looks set to be transformed, worldwide, by the advent of probiotic products. One of the pioneers in the field is innovative Finnish dairy company Valio, which has spent the past decade turning its probiotic juice drink brand into...
24 Feb The big food trend is food trends
US journalist, Brendan Francis Newman got the ball rolling in 2010 when he famously predicted that one of the big food trends of 2010 would be food trends, as "more and more people get into the business of predicting what is ...
24 Feb Coca-Cola and Heinz partner on PlantBottle packaging
The Coca-Cola Company and HJ Heinz Company have announced a strategic partnership that will allow Heinz to produce its ketchup bottles using Coca-Cola's breakthrough PlantBottle packaging. The PET plastic bottles are made partially from plants and have a lower reliance on...
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