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The lack of any ‘magic ingredient’ for sodium reformulation necessitates a partnership approach to retaining shelf life in foods - with the spotlight on health improvement initiatives to reduce sodium, sugar and fat in packaged food, Euromonitor International discusses the challenges and trends, how food...
Ian Moir, the CE of Woolworths since November 2010, talks to Moneyweb about his career, his move to SA, his relationship with chairman Simon Susman, the group's unwavering dedication to quality, transformation within Woolies, and what keeps him awake at night.
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As quinoa, kale, hummus and even seaweed find a seat at the American dinner table, the prospects for the processed food brands of yesteryear might appear dim. After all, how can classics like Hungry Man, Chef Boyardee, Hamburger Helper and Spam possibly survive in an...
Sensient Colors has launched AccuPak, the first dissolvable bag in the food colour industry. The water soluble bags are a convenient packaging alternative that delivers the proper dose of colour and eliminates dust and cross-contamination issues. ...
A multinational team of scientists has identified a single gene, called Shell, that regulates yield of the oil palm tree. The fruit and seeds of the oil palm are the source of nearly one-half of the supply of edible vegetable oil worldwide,...
The red-wine polyphenol, resveratrol, believed to benefit longevity and heart health for its antioxidant properties, has been found to undermine the cardiovascular benefits of exercise in a small study....
In a little shop near the Louvre museum in Paris, a very strange type of ice cream is being sold. At the counter customers don’t order cups, cones or shakes; here they ask for WikiPearls, little donut hole-sized balls of ice cream...
Norwegian company Unikia is looking to update the plain old lunch bag with its Compleat FoodBag, a reusable lunch box that keeps food fresh and protected in transit and rolls up compactly when the meal is over....
In March 2012, SA's new R146 food labelling regulations came into force and although not without controversy, the changes were largely welcomed by consumers and retailers alike. More than a year later, however, non-compliance remains an issue. Many manufacturers and smaller...
Pre-cooked ostrich meat, a product developed by world-leading ostrich company Klein Karoo International (KKI) in an effort to make up for the devastating effects of the H5N2 avian flu outbreak in 2011 which resulted in a European Union (EU) ban on raw ostrich, is now...
A new breed of consumer is challenging the way that retailers package, price and distribute their products, says Gareth Pearson, CEO of Jo'burg-based BMi Research. ...
A UK team is building an "artificial" chromosome to be inserted into the world's first synthetic yeast, while teams worldwide are making the other parts of its genome, which will be assembled to make the yeast strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Once complete, new strains of synthetic...
In what it terms "a major expansion drive", Pouyoukas Foods has appointed a new CEO and taken over distribution and marketing of the Snack Factory range of products.
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British supermarkets and newsagents are to be told to abolish so-called ‘guilt lanes’ which see shoppers tempted with fattening sweets and treats at checkouts.
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Global life sciences company, DSM, has published results of a consumer perception survey revealing that urban consumers around the world continue to be confused about the amount of salt they consume, about maximum recommended daily intakes (RDI) and that taste still wins over health...
People may ponder a Twinkie’s shelf life, but the brand name has lasting power, too. The food industry may draw four lessons from the anticipated July 15 return of Twinkies [today!] which have been off retail shelves for months, according to a report "The Return...
There is a widely held belief that Soweto is the most lucrative per capita market for Johnnie Walker Blue Label in the world. What is less well known is that Johnnie Blue is a South African invention. Step forward marketing maven from...
The nutrition bars sector continues to enjoy rising levels of interest, in line with or even ahead of the market for cereal bars as a whole. Growth in the sector has reflected rising interest in healthy and convenient snacks suitable for consumption on-the-go, reports Innova....
For those with even the most basic grasp of gastronomy, boiling an egg is the simplest of culinary callings. But if you are "too busy, or too stupid" to get the perfect yolk, a pre-cooked soft-boiled egg which only needs boiling water added is about...
Rhodes has launched two new fruit variants to its inventory, Rhodes Very Cherry and Rhodes Two Fruits. [Click to enlarge]
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