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Symrise South Africa, the local arm of the giant German flavour multinational, has officially opened a new customer innovation centre at its Isando, Jo'burg, premises. The centre will operate as an R&D hub for Symrise's team of flavourists and product developers, and as a platform...
The next generation of food and beverage production facilities will be sanitary, flexible, more pleasant to work in and self-sustaining....
Iodised salt is so commonplace in the world today that we mostly never give the additive a second thought. But new research finds that humble iodine has played a substantial role in cognitive improvements seen across the American population in the 20th century....
Google is calling the next version of its mobile operating system Android KitKat. The news comes as a surprise as the firm had previously indicated version 4.4 of the operating system would be Key Lime Pie - but the decision to brand the software with...
While most of us take the lifting of a spoon to our mouth for granted, it can be a major challenge for people with Parkinson's Disease or other neurodegenerative conditions such as essential tremor, a disorder characterised by shaking hands (among other things)....
Siemens has used the 2013 IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin this week to unveil a new advance in consumer refrigeration - using a vacuum to keep food fresher, longer. [Click pic to enlarge]
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Just when you finally learned how to correctly pronounce quinoa (keen-wa), another new grain comes along with an odd sounding name, touting its health benefits. We're talking about freekeh (freak-eh). What is it?...
With 800-million hungry mouths to feed, India’s government has to do something. Its answer to the country’s malnutrition problem is a mammoth food subsidy package that guarantees cheap food for the poor and a hefty bill for the exchequer. This won’t solve...
The history of artificial sweeteners is a history of public neuroses, bad science, paranoid distrust of corporations and regulatory failure. It plays to our fear of what we don’t understand, absurd risk-aversion on the part of regulators and the political ...
One of the simplest and most effective ways to innovate is to go out and observe your customers using your product in their own environment, advises Dr Gavin Symanowitz, an actuary and founder of BlockbusterInnovation.com, and who is frequently driven crazy by Fizz Pops!
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Beverage can manufacturer, Ball Packaging Europe, is unveiling its Magic Straw Can along with several other beverage can innovations at the Drinktec 2013, the world fair for the beverage and liquid food industry in Münich in September. [Click pic to enlarge]
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After 22 years as market leaders in microbiological testing in South Africa, August 2013 marks the beginning of a new era for Swift Silliker, with the launch this week of a new state-of-the-art chemistry laboratory, and no doubt adding a valuable service offering to the...
Taste is not what you think. Every schoolchild learns that it is one of the five senses, a partner of smell and sight and touch, a consequence of food flitting over taste buds that send important signals—sweet or bitter, nutrient or poison?—to...
There is more than one application for the good, old-fashioned canning jar - see what US packaging manufacturer, Cuppow, has come up with...
Rigorously controlled studies may soon give us a definitive answer about what causes obesity — excessive calories or the wrong carbohydrates. This intriguing article in Scientific American is by well-known scince writer, Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), and Why We...
Just why exercise is so good for people is, at last, being understood. A paper just published in Nature by Beth Levine of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre and her colleagues sheds some light on the matter....
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Did you hear that a group of 400 angry farmers attacked and destroyed a field trial of genetically modified rice in the Philippines this month? That, it turns out, was a lie. The crop was actually destroyed by a...
Spices grown in the mist-shrouded Western Ghats of India have fueled wars, fortunes and even the discovery of continents, and for thousands of years farmers harvested them in the same traditional ways. Until now. US FDA concerns on high levels of salmonella contamination...
Don’t toss your saltshaker out just yet. A new study led by scientists affiliated with the UC Davis, adds further credence to the growing scientific notion that concern about the amount of salt we consume may be misplaced. ...