30 Aug SA’s Best Olive Oils of 2012 announced
Out of a total of 63 olive oils entered by 39 producers, 19 of the country’s leading olive oil producers were honoured with gold medals at the 2012 SA Olive award ceremony.
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Out of a total of 63 olive oils entered by 39 producers, 19 of the country’s leading olive oil producers were honoured with gold medals at the 2012 SA Olive award ceremony.
...In the wake of the cider market's growth spurt, Tell’s Premium Cider has launched what it claims as South Africa’s first commercially available, authentic pear cider. The Stellen Fine Wines brand first entered the market with a premium, off-dry apple cider earlier this year, eliciting...
In the wake of the cider market's growth spurt, Tell’s Premium Cider has launched what it claims as South Africa’s first commercially available, authentic pear cider. The Stellen Fine Wines brand first entered the market with a premium, off-dry apple cider earlier this year, eliciting...
What travels farther: the Quaker oat or Kellogg's corn flake? As global demand grows for American-style breakfast foods, cereal marketers are battling to make their brands the top choice in China, India, Brazil and elsewhere, where staples like bread and fish have been...
Adding new zest and contemporary flair to an old food stalwart, Heinz in the UK has launched Heinz Five Beanz, using a marketing platform that these are BEANZ FOR GROWN UPZ.
...Scientists have found that high doses of niacin, or vitamin B3, massively boost the body's defences against staphylococcus bacteria. Marmite is especially rich in B vitamins, including niacin....
High levels of the hormone insulin, brought on by a bad diet, may harm the brain in the same way that the muscle, liver and fat cells are affected by type two diabetes.
...Water scarcity's effect on food production means radical steps will be needed to feed population expected to reach 9bn by 2050....
Political revolutionaries turn the world upside down. Scientific ones more often turn it inside out. And that, almost literally, is happening to the idea of what, biologically speaking, a human being is. People are not just people. They are an awful lot of microbes, too...
A new study confirms the satiating effect of Litesse polydextrose and its potential role in appetite control, reports DuPont Nutrition & Health....
Foodcorp, South Africa’s third-largest food producer, will invest R46m in a new 8,000m² factory in the Eastern Cape, despite costs associated with retaining a presence in Molteno, CEO Justin Williamson said this week....
After years of vociferous debate and negotiation, new federal nutrition guidelines on school lunch menus go into effect this American fall. What will schools be doing differently?...
Fueled by Magnum’s new-found success, Unilever is chipping away at Nestlé’s lead in the $12-billion US ice cream market....
Want to up your emotional intelligence (EQ), improve your social skills? One way is to cut down on caffeine. The catch? As any caffeine drinker can attest, this is easier said than done.
...The MD of salad dressing company, Righteous, discovered persistence is key when it comes to approaching retail buyers...
Most obvious food-bev innovation rests in packaging - to here's an interesting new concept for beer: French industrial designer, Petit Romain, has dreamed up a square glass container he dubs the Heineken Cube. [Click on pic to enlarge]
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In his new book, "Something to Chew On", author Prof Mike Gibney, director of the Institute of Food and Health at University College Dublin, aims to 'challenge food controversies', sprinkling a large pinch of salt over the claims of food fearmongers. Here's a...
UK consumer group, Which? has been investigating the effect of food packaging - and it reports (surprise, surprise!) that supermarket food packaging doesn't just tempt consumers into putting it in their baskets, but it actually increases how tasty they perceive a product to be....
Beginning September 1, the Diet Coke cans will look a little different. The new design, created by Turner Duckworth, first showed up on supermarket shelves last year as a limited-edition package, but it will now become the regular face of the leading soda...
The patented "Gizmo Closure and Delivery System," an innovative, pressurized bottle cap design, out of the US, that infuses a drink with fresh, preservative-free ingredients upon opening, has been utilised for the first time in a new range of iced teas, Tea of a Kind....