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Over 23 500 food professionals from all over the globe gathered in Chicago for the IFT 2013 Annual Meeting & Food Expo from July 13–16, 2013, to make this year's event a huge success. Few South Africans were likely there — but if you'd...
Nice bit of fresh fruit marketing innovation out of Queensland, Australia, where a major banana grower has launched a specially designed fresh banana vending machine in a Brisbane food court. This neatly bypasses traditional supply channels and supermarkets, and no doubt has a dandy premium...
A year on after it was gutted by a devastating fire on August 9, 2012, BM Food Manufacturers, best known for its popular Mediterranean Delicacies and Bettafresh products, has officially opened its newly rebuilt state-of-the-art facility. Full production will start on Monday.
When a single genetic mutation first let ancient Europeans drink milk, it set the stage for a continental upheaval. There has been a wave of discoveries about the history of milk in Europe in recent years - findings that illuminate the profound ways that dairy...
In a bid to support the fast food chain's rapid expansion plans, Burger King South Africa has signed an exclusive agreement to open stores within Sasol's national fuel retail network.
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A new review in Food and Chemical Toxicology reaffirmed the safety of aspartame. The study, 'Aspartame, low-calorie sweeteners and disease: regulatory safety and epidemiological issues', examined the research that has been done over the past 22 years on the safety of aspartame.
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Handwashing is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of disease - and a basic prerequisite for everyone working in the food industry, asserts Prof James Marsden, Kansas State University Regent’s Distinguished Professor of Food Safety. He offers some sage advice in...
Gluten-free food, once seen as fad, has evolved into a multi-billion dollar trend. Why, when scientific reasearch shows only one percent of the US population has celiac disease and only 0.5 percent is allergic to wheat. Like MSG, gluten intolerance looks to be mainly in...
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What strategy could you propose to management that they will like the most – but which has, at best, only a 50-50 chance of success? The answer: brand extension. The reason: because executives believe it’s a low-risk strategy. The reality:...
What strategy could you propose to management that they will like the most – but which has, at best, only a 50-50 chance of success? The answer: brand extension. The reason: because executives believe it’s a low-risk strategy. The reality:...
"Because they spend so much time out of the house earning money, many young women in cities like Manchester have never learned to cook. Sometimes their households scratch along, ill-fed. At other times their husbands are condemned to take over domestic duties." That was Frederick...
Starbucks Coffee and Danone have announced a strategic agreement to offer a jointly created and developed selection of new specialty yoghurt products in participating Starbucks stores and in grocery channels....
Active packaging continues to move ahead, such as the emerging incorporation of non-contact antimicrobials in the package structures to suppress pathogens and prolong shelf life. News from Michigan Technological University is an innovation that has the potential to kill 100 percent of harmful microbes before...
An interesing development in the evolution of omega-3 for incorporation into functional foods, and particularly beverages. US company, Oceans Omega, claims it has developed a technology that allows the addition of omega-3 fatty acids into clear beverages with no change in finished...
Allergies are certainly the result of both genetic and environmental factors, but there is fresh evidence to suggest that at least one major genetic aberration could be behind everything from hay fever to food allergies to asthma....
Excitement around antioxidants has diminished, replaced by polarised views and misconceptions that have started to impede industry use of the ingredient in supplements and drugs, scientists suggest. Two scientists from Maastricht University in the Netherlands have written a review to dispel ten misconceptions about antioxidants.
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Sports nutrition marketers, traditionally focused on young men, sports teams and hardcore athletes, could do well to put more attention to a far larger and potentially more viable market: women, weekend warriors and consumers pursuing individual sports and fitness activities from yoga to walking, according...
