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Stand-up pouches are an ever popular choice for brand owners looking for innovative ways to market their products. This article takes a look at this burgeoning sector of the flexible packaging market....
It sounds like an unfolding epidemic: A decade ago, virtually no one in the US seemed to have a problem eating gluten in bread and other foods. Now, millions do.
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Muslim and Jewish organisations have said they will oppose an application by a Christian group in which it is challenging the government’s regulations allowing a wide range of food packaging to be religiously certified and to carry religious signs....
Suma Kassier, dietician and human nutritionist, launched the University of KZN’s national science week this Tuesday with a titillating presentation “Love Potion No 9: The Science Behind Edible Aphrodisiacs”....
South Africa's largest privately-owned commercial food and product safety company in SA‚ Swift Micro Laboratories‚ has concluded a joint venture with international company Chicago-based Mérieux NutriSciences Corporation, a global leader in food safety‚ quality and nutrition.
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A recent newspaper article out of KZN highlights the dramatic impact of rising food costs, especially on the poorest South Africans. Already cash-strapped and struggling to put food on their tables, consumers have been facing food price increases significantly higher than the rate...
It's food, but not as we know it: a new processing plant in Norway is set to produce foods packed with deadly E.coli and cheese full of Listeria – all with aim of a better understanding of food contamination and safety....
Sunspray, the Jo-burg-based specialist spray-drying ingredients company, has unveiled its newly revamped R&D lab on its Industria manufacturing campus....
A funky idea for ever-trendy espresso: this edible cookie cup is the prototype creation of a Venezuelan designer named Enrique Luis Sardi made for Lavazza, the famous Italian coffee company. (Click pic to enlarge)
After his newest adventures with medicine, the writer sometimes thinks he should be standing up in a room filled with other people with the same condition, as he builds up enough courage to confess: “Hi, my name is Brooks and I am a… diabetic.” Although...
Nampak Closures has created a screwcap for Graça’s wine bottle, helping South Africa’s "favourite talking, eating, drinking, laughing, singing, and above all, sharing wine", switch from its traditional cork closure to a screwcap. ...
What is packaging's role in the obesity epidemic? How does it persuade us to over-eat? It's a topic of academic study in a new working paper by Pierre Chandon, Professor of Marketing and Director of the INSEAD Social Science Research Centre, part of the famous...
The secret to the deadly 2011 E. coli outbreak in Germany has been decoded, thanks to research conducted at Michigan State University....
The Cutie, a small, glossy, deep-orange citrus fruit is, acre for acre, the most profitable citrus in America. The story behind this mandarin/clementine variant is a fascinating tale of of big-money marketing...
A shift towards palm oil-free foods and ingredients could be an emerging trend in Europe, according to market analysts....
America's drought threatens a recurrence of the 2008 global food crisis, when soaring prices set off riots and unrest to parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, food experts warn....
“We are in for a rough ride in terms of food price inflation… food prices will remain at a higher level for a long time,” comments Ernst Janovsky, the head of Absa Agribusiness on the likely local impact of the devastating...
Consumers turn to private label products in their hunt for value. When it comes to food they are finding it increasingly in retailers' private label products.
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For a growing number of SA coffee drinkers any old instant brew is no longer good enough. "Coffee drinkers' demands are becoming increasingly sophisticated," says Paul Hanlon, MD of Ciro Beverage Solutions, a unit of AVI....
