17 Oct Peanut butter test could help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease
A dollop of peanut butter and a ruler can be used to confirm a diagnosis of early stage Alzheimer's disease, University of Florida Health researchers have found.
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16 Oct Brand extension for Frankie’s – from soft drinks to ice lollies
KZN beverage company, Frankie’s, has announced it's extending the soft drink brand into the realm of frozen treats/snacks, with the launch of a range of ice lollies based on its four top-selling, olde-worlde flavours. [Click pic to enlarge.]
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16 Oct Brand extension for Frankie’s – from soft drinks to ice lollies
KZN beverage company, Frankie’s, has announced it's extending the soft drink brand into the realm of frozen treats/snacks, with the launch of a range of ice lollies based on its four top-selling, olde-worlde flavours. [Click pic to enlarge.]
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16 Oct Pioneer Foods is to axe 1 200 best-paid jobs
Pioneer Foods, SA's third-biggest food company, will embark on a major job-cutting exercise in bid to cut costs. More than 1 200 of its best-paid staff or 10% of the current workforce, are being put on early retirement, retrenched or redeployed to lower-paid...
16 Oct Oat cuisine: Britain bowled over by porridge
As the European winter draws nearer, Mintel has drawn attention to the huge popularity of oats porridge in Britain. New research reveals, one in two Brits (49%) are porridge eaters, with a quarter (23%) of users enjoying a...
16 Oct How chorizo became a British staple
Open the nation’s fridges and what do you find? Alongside the ubiquitous two-pinter of semi-skimmed, crumb-infested butter and fast-ageing bag of carrots you will, as likely as not, discover a pack of super-flexible, ultra-tasty chorizo sausage....
16 Oct Savoury biscuits successfully target snacking occasions
While the savoury biscuits market is much smaller than that for sweet biscuits/cookies and levels of new product activity are generally much lower, the savoury sector has been showing a stronger growth rate in many countries. This is driven by increasingly sophisticated and complex flavours,...
16 Oct The chicken run
Much of the foodie world is seduced by the economic-romantic myth of grow-your-own, self-sustaining food production...
16 Oct Why investors should keep an eye on waste, water, wellness and obesity
Of major importance to the food industry, these four issues are among seven long-term 'megatrends', business growth themes that will change everyone's lives in the coming years and need to be on the investor's radar screens, both from a risk and opportunity perspective, according...
16 Oct Human cheese
Have you ever been offered a fancy cheese that smelled more like a used gym sock than something edible? American odour scientist, Sissel Tolaas, and researcher, Christina Agapakis, took this idea and ran with it, with their project Synthetic Aesthetics. The duo...
16 Oct Shoprite’s Basson points finger at food manufacturers
Shoprite chief executive Whitey Basson has moved beyond blaming the usual suspects of unions and labour legislation for South Africa’s economic woes and has lashed out at the “declining” manufacturing sector for its lack of innovation and competitiveness....
16 Oct Spur’s new ventures into Africa
Spur Corporation, whose brands include Panarottis, John Dory’s and Captain DoRegos, has announced it will be extending its African footprint and open outlets in Swaziland, Nigeria, Tanzania, Namibia and the Seychelles next year....
15 Oct Futurelife launches added-sugar-free Zero version
Futurelife, one of the fastest-growing and credible health brands in the country, has added a ZERO variant to its range of cereals and functional foods. [Click pic to enlarge]
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11 Oct Lay’s launches new Munch Bag
PepsiCo South Africa has introduced a new 60g Lay's Munch Bag - a first for Lay’s, and said to be an ideal single-serving size; one that's not too small and neither too big. [Click pic to enlarge]
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11 Oct Lay’s launches new Munch Bag
PepsiCo South Africa has introduced a new 60g Lay's Munch Bag - a first for Lay’s, and said to be an ideal single-serving size; one that's not too small and neither too big. [Click pic to enlarge]
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Fast food convenience drives SA's middle-class appetite...
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Salt consumption: confusion and taste reign...
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UK: Pioneering fresh whey protein drink...
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