13 Dec The Bypass Cure
Type 2 diabetes can be reversed in the operating room. The implications are staggering for halting one of the world’s deadliest diseases....
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13 Dec Stone Age people were making cheese over 7 000 years ago
Stone Age people living in northern Europe were making cheese more than 7 000 years ago according to scientists who believe they have found the first direct evidence of dairy processing....
13 Dec Pizza Hut perfume: for the fast food fan who has everything
Who wouldn’t want to smell like a pizza? The dough, the spices, the cheese, the greasy cardboard box — all that olfactory delight might be too much for one fast-food connoisseur to handle. But now you, too, can smell like the inside of...
13 Dec Why the coconut craze isn’t helping farmers
As demand for all-things-coconut grows in the US, coconut-producing countries from Sri Lanka to Brazil are scrambling to supply foreign firms on the hunt for more fruit. What’s less clear is how — or if — this boom will benefit the men and...
13 Dec Dr Oz: A new cheerleader for canned and frozen food
A recent Time Magazine’s front cover (December 3, 2012) and lead article will please food industrialists. It's entitled “What to Eat Now: The Anti-Food-Snob Diet” by Dr Mehmet Oz, the vice chairman and professor surgery at Columbia University, a...
13 Dec Kraft Foods invests R4.6 million in state-of-the-art testing facility
Kraft Foods South Africa recently opened a new microbiology laboratory at the company’s chocolate factory in Port Elizabeth. The R4.6 million investment will enable accurate and sensitive analyses of products in line with stringent microbiological testing requirements set by the global snacking company, now...
13 Dec US: Technomic’s Top 10 Adult Beverage Trends for 2013
Technomic, the US market research company, has issued its report on the trends that will shape the US adults drinks business in 2013. Based on ongoing research into spirits, wine and beer volume and sales, as well as surveys, interviews and discussions involving brand marketers,...
13 Dec Probing series into the massive US beef industry
America's Kansas City Star newspaper has published a hard-hitting investigative series into the current state of the US beef industry, called “Beef’s Raw Edges”. The project was spearheaded by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Mike McGraw. Needless to say, the industry is less than...
13 Dec Lempert Report: Top Ten American Food Trends 2013 – six to ten
Phil Lempert, also known as the Supermarket Guru, is one of America’s leading consumer trend-watchers and analysts. Here are his top trends for 2013 - numbers six to ten. Read about the first five here.
- Trend # 6: Frozen foods evolve...
13 Dec Making sense of the Food Police vs Big Food battle
Food-related government intervention is trotted out all the time by food crusaders everywhere. But before we get to those interventions, maybe we should ask how we got here in the first place. [Lovely commentary from Rob Lyons, deputy editor of spiked-online.com, one of...
13 Dec What a year it has been – Google’s Zeitgeist 2012 video
Something different for the end of the year – Google has released its Zeitgeist video, which takes a look at the year in 'search'. And what a year it’s been. Check out "Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review".
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13 Dec Reshaping the future of cocoa in Africa
Precious cocoa - caught between the chocolate appetite of the affluent West and the struggles of small-scale African farmers. New efforts and business/NGO partnerships are underway to bolster production and sustainability....
13 Dec Barry Callebaut now leader of the cocoa-choc pack
Barry Callebaut, the largest maker of bulk chocolate, agreed to buy Singapore-based and listed Petra Foods' cocoa-ingredients unit for $950-million to expand processing capacity and boost sales in Asia, and thereby becoming the world’s biggest cocoa processor....
12 Dec Paarman Foods obtains FSSC22000 certification
Cape Town's Paarman Foods has recently achieved FSSC22000 certification, believed to be the first South African food manufacturer in its category to win this prestigous milestone, and complementing its long-held ISO9001 ticket.
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12 Dec Rising role for resveratrol in non-supplement applications
Awareness of resveratrol and its potential health benefits is relatively long-established, but with increasing consumer interest in health and the growing body of research being carried out into its role and efficacy, its use is starting to move out of the specialist dietetic market and...
12 Dec SAFARI goes nuts with new Marmite and wasabi flavours
SAD Safari has gone the trendy route of 'heat' and umami in the snacking arena, with the introduction of a new range of choice-grade Marmite and Wasabi peanuts and cashews. ...
12 Dec US: Food Processing Magazine names Chobani its 2012 Processor of the Year
Turkish immigrant to the US, Hamdi Ulukaya, wanted yogurt like that back home, so he made some – like a billion dollars' worth of it. [An excellent article on what has to be one of the most amazing food success stories ever. Ed]
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12 Dec Coca-Cola first to market with new Tetra Pak package
Russia has seen the first launch worldwide of the new Tetra Gemina Aseptic (TGA) Leaf pack for Coca-Cola’s Dobry juice range, the country’s No 1 juice brand. Tetra Pak says the TGA Leaf offers customers a package with a unique appearance whilst also delivering exceptional...
09 Dec Tiger Brands buys Mrs Ball’s Chutney from Unilever SA
South Africa’s largest food company, Tiger Brands, has bought iconic local brand Mrs Ball’s Chutney from Unilever for a tasty R475m.
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07 Dec Local snoek not all it appears to be
Snoek is one of the Western Cape's most well-known delicacies, yet, more than half the snoek found in some of Cape Town's retail chains are imported from New Zealand. SA's Snoek and New Zealand's barracouta are the same species, but...
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