18 Apr ‘Sustainable fish’ label under fire
The world's biggest scheme to certify that seafish come from sustainable sources has come under fire in a scientific journal, where researchers say the label is too generous and may "mislead" consumers....
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18 Apr Supermarkets named in meat mislabelling respond
Popular supermarkets including Pick n Pay, Shoprite, Woolworths, Spar and Fruit & Veg have responded to a City Press report that identified them as stocking incorrectly labelled meat products, largely blaming cross-contamination.
18 Apr Icing is coming off America’s cupcake craze
Cupcakes became an American cultural and economic phenomenon over the last decade, with gourmet cupcake shops proliferating across the country, selling increasingly elaborate and expensive concoctions. But, the craze for $4 gourmet cupcakes appears to be peaking...
18 Apr New work for baker’s yeast: making malaria drugs
For the first time, researchers have successfully engineered a strain of baker’s yeast capable of spewing out malaria drugs on an industrial scale. The French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has already begun brewing the microbes and announced plans to generate 70 million doses this year.
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17 Apr US: The rush toward cold-pressed juices
In the US, cold-pressed juices have morphed from an elitist 'cleansing' curiosity to an industry that has venture capitalists smacking their lips...
17 Apr Naturex introduces cold-processed 100% fruit and vegetable powders
Naturex has introduced a range of 100% fruit and vegetable powders produced through a low-temperature spray drying process that it says better preserves flavour, colour and nutrition....
17 Apr Revealing the scientific secrets of why people can’t stop after eating one potato chip
The scientific secrets underpinning that awful reality about potato chips - eat one and you're apt to scarf 'em all down - are slowly coming out of the bag according to this new research presented at the recent 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the...
17 Apr Top Ten Food Trends
Unprecedented changes in lifestyles and eating patterns, a greater demand for healthier fare and more ethical options, and consumers’ desire to know more about the foods they choose will cause dramatic changes in the way the food industry does business in the...
17 Apr Scientists transform cellulose into starch: potential food source derived from non-food plants
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally though of as food crops....
17 Apr US: The next big marketing weapon for supermarkets – the dietitian
With wellness issues at forefront for 'Big Food', supermarket chains are turning to experts to advise consumers. Once confined to hospitals and offices, dietitians are a marketing weapon for the chains bringing them aboard to aid shoppers seeking the best foods to drop...
17 Apr Distell buys top Scotch whisky producer, Burn Stewart Distillers
The Distell Group, Africa's leading spirits, wines and RTD business, has acquired a top-performing producer of Scotch whiskies, Burn Stewart Distillers Limited, for just over R2,2 billion (£160 million) from the Scottish based CL World Brands Limited and Trinidad and Tobago based...
12 Apr Distell: 2013 is a great vintage
Ongoing advances in vineyard management together with very favourable climatic conditions in the lead-up to the 2013 harvest had produced an absolutely outstanding vintage for the Cape, according to Callie van Niekerk (left), who heads Distell's winery operations....
12 Apr What is the GFSI Global Markets Programme?
Small and/or less developed businesses are frequently denied access to market opportunities because they lack expertise and resources to meet the food safety requirements of the formal supply chain. This is where the GFSI Global Markets Programme kicks in...
12 Apr Talking PET innovation with Polyoak Packaging
Established in 1976, Polyoak Packaging now counts as one of Southern Africa’s leading rigid plastic packaging suppliers, with various divisions specialising in thermoformed, blowmoulded, injection-moulded and compression-moulded plastics packaging for the dairy, food and beverage, and retail sectors. A customer-focused approach combined with leading-edge PET...
12 Apr US: Meat industry renaming beef, pork cuts to make labels more user-friendly
The American meat industry is rolling out a refresh of the often confusing 40-year-old system used for naming the various cuts of beef, pork, lamb and veal. That's because the system — the Uniform Retail Meat Identification Standards, or URMIS — was designed more for...
11 Apr Heinz Foods launches ready-to-bake biscuit doughs
Designed to help those parents challenged to find convenient, cost-effective and fun ways to keep their children occupied, Heinz Foods SA has launched the Today Ready-to-Bake Biscuit Dough range to help parents get their children 'analogue happy' ie away from the TV, video-games and PCs,...
11 Apr Salt sellers shaken by the new regulations
By 2019, the amount of salt in your bread will have been decreased by 30%, the salt in a vienna sausage will be down by 13%, and by 12% in a packet of potato crisps - SA's new salt regulations were signed into...
11 Apr SA’s pet food industry part of a global boom
South Africans are spending almost R5bn each year to feed their cats, dogs and other pets. And pet food manufacturers say they have barely scratched the surface. Only about 20% of SA's dogs and 35% of its cats are fed the almost 200 brands of...
11 Apr Private equity recognises the power and profit of polony
The food industry may be dominated by giants such as Tiger Brands and Premier Foods, but there is still potential for regional independents to expand into true national businesses - to wit the private equity investment in an under-the-radar polony maker...
10 Apr Kale reinvents itself with health, quality and availability focus
Kale, or borecole, part of the Brassica family of vegetables, is currently riding high in markets such as the US and the UK, reports Innova Market Insights. A green that helped sustain Britain through the dark years of World War II is making a comeback...
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