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28 Jun Jam taste and packaging innovation from Rhodes

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Some nice jam innovation from Rhodes Food Group: in a variant first for South Africa, it has launched Red Fig in a fridge-friendly can, and revamped the packaging for its Jams in Glass range. ...

28 Jun Changing the conversation about food science

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A world without food science is beyond nightmarish ...

28 Jun The Obesity Tipping Point

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There is a perfect storm brewing...

28 Jun Low-carb diet burns the most calories in small study

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A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association challenges the notion that “a calorie is a calorie” and has found that people following a Mediterranean-style diet may have the best chance of keeping weight off — and doing it...

28 Jun The spout pouch stars in Boland Pulp’s fruity show

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FMCG companies worldwide are thinking outside the can, jar and the bottle and looking with more interest at resealable spout pouches. This change is evident on South African shelves, too, and leading the charge in the food arena is Boland Pulp, as Brenda Neall reports.

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28 Jun Aging population focused on foods to preserve health now

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The rising population of aging health-conscious consumers is driving demand for food products that support good health now, as well as medicinal treatment for conditions that arise in later years, according to a panel discussion at the Institute of Food Technologists...

28 Jun Healthy beginnings lead to healthy lives

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From the time humans are born, everything they put in their mouths ultimately affects the body’s immunological response and how they metabolize food ...

28 Jun A tighter squeeze on sinful foods

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In the western world, food marketers are getting pushed into an ever tighter corner as anxiety about the obesity epidemic rises. Governments are ramping up the pressure, with new regulations and taxes. This report by JWT Intelligence. ...

27 Jun COMMENT: McOlympics? That’s fine with me

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Who cares if the Olympics are sponsored by Coca-Cola and Cadbury? The critics of London 2012’s fast-food funders can go take a running jump, writes Rob Lyons in this provocative piece...

27 Jun In search of satiety

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Satiety is a concept that increasingly resonates with consumers, a concept that emphasises the positives of fullness and is a move away from the negatives of dieting.

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27 Jun US: IFT announces its 2012 innovation awards

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The American food industry is gathered this week in Las Vegas for the 2012 IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo. At Tuesday morning’s keynote session, the winners of the 2012 IFT Food Expo Innovation Awards were announced: Advantix Systems, Ampac, Ecolab, and Glanbia Nutritionals....

27 Jun Food as fashion: We eat what we are

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What we eat and drink has become such an emotional roller coaster for so many of us that it's utterly changing the way that restaurant, food makers and grocery chains do business. Food used to feed our bodies. Now it also needs to...

27 Jun GM: Green lobby has no right to impose its Luddite fears

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South Africa’s official position on bio-technology is fairly tolerant of GM crops, with their distinguished record of increasing food security. But environmental lobby groups bang on about unfounded fears and demand mandatory measures to protect the public from a non-existent...

27 Jun GM: Green lobby has no right to impose its Luddite fears

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27 Jun US: Butter’s back – sales rise as consumers seek pure ingredients

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Innovation and new flavours are enabling the once-staid staple to outpace margarine and even olive oil in market growth....

26 Jun US: Humane food now a mainstream trend

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Consumer consciences are firmly on the corporate marketing radar. Ethically-sourced, humanely-farmed animal products have been around fro some time among upscale retailers such as Whole Foods and among specialty brands like Martha Stewart (which sells turkeys raised in a “stress-free environment”), but this year...

22 Jun SABMiller barrels ahead in Africa

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Robust economic growth, urbanisation and consumers aspiring to the better things in life point towards the African dream at last being realised. For brewers this combination is creating a dream market just starting to realise its huge potential, notes a new Financial...

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22 Jun Coca-Cola ‘not to blame for US obesity’

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Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent insists his company is not responsible for the rise in US obesity despite New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's recent moves to limit the consumption of sugary drinks....

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22 Jun Starbucks to open first tea only store in Seattle

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Tea time is set for a Starbucks-style makeover as the worldwide chain aims to do for the beverage what it has for coffee.
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22 Jun Rio+20: Unilever CEO on the need to battle on to save the world

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The Rio Earth Summit has been in progress this week - and with the political process at the summit paralysed, if not failed, Unilever's Paul Polman has urged progressive business to show courage and leadership on the all-important issues of environmental and business...

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28 Jun Jam taste and packaging innovation from Rhodes

28 Jun Changing the conversation about food science

28 Jun The Obesity Tipping Point

28 Jun Low-carb diet burns the most calories in small study

28 Jun The spout pouch stars in Boland Pulp’s fruity show

28 Jun Aging population focused on foods to preserve health now

28 Jun Healthy beginnings lead to healthy lives

28 Jun A tighter squeeze on sinful foods

27 Jun COMMENT: McOlympics? That’s fine with me

27 Jun In search of satiety

27 Jun US: IFT announces its 2012 innovation awards

27 Jun Food as fashion: We eat what we are

27 Jun GM: Green lobby has no right to impose its Luddite fears

27 Jun GM: Green lobby has no right to impose its Luddite fears

27 Jun US: Butter’s back – sales rise as consumers seek pure ingredients

26 Jun US: Humane food now a mainstream trend

22 Jun SABMiller barrels ahead in Africa

22 Jun Coca-Cola ‘not to blame for US obesity’

22 Jun Starbucks to open first tea only store in Seattle

22 Jun Rio+20: Unilever CEO on the need to battle on to save the world

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