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Low-carb eating regimens are a topic du jour around the world. Massive Health, a 'new age' health organisation that is behind the popular free IPhone app, The Eatery ("Stop counting calories, start eating better"), has created this useful infographic explaining the science...
In the US eleven consumers have sued ConAgra Food, claiming that the company’s Hebrew National products were inappropriately labelled as kosher. A federal judge in Minnesota will decide what, if any, punishment ConAgra will receive. But what about the Jewish...
To be successful, manufacturers and retailers must understand what matters most to consumers and which packaging innovations actually impact consumer behaviour, according to "Food and Beverage Packaging Trends in the US," a new report from Packaged Facts....
To be successful, manufacturers and retailers must understand what matters most to consumers and which packaging innovations actually impact consumer behaviour, according to "Food and Beverage Packaging Trends in the US," a new report from Packaged Facts....
Increasing evidence suggests that the alarming rise in allergic and autoimmune disorders during the past few decades is at least partly attributable to our lack of exposure to microorganisms that once covered our food and us. [A great op-ed piece by Jeff D Leach, a...
The Kellogg Company is promoting its updated research compendium spanning scientific research that plugs the health benefits of cereals as a breakfast choice. The updated research compendium ‘Cereal: The Complete Story’ is intended to “give people the facts on this nutritious...
Shoprite, the largest supermarket group on the African continent, recently became the first South African retailer to enter the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with the opening of a world-class supermarket in Gombe, Kinshasa.
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Got innovation? Just about every company says it does, but the term has begun to lose meaning...
Intake of the red wine polyphenol resveratrol could help boost exercise performance by improving strength and endurance, according to new research in rats out of the University of Alberta.
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3D scanning is widely used in a variety of industries - and the same technology is now being used for meat. Nantsune's (out of Japan) new Libra 165C meat slicer captures a 3D image of a piece of meat, ready to be butchered,...
As we want/need to know everything about where our food is from and what is in it, scientists are hard at work developing ways to measure everything from exactly where a coffee bean was grown to whether that mozzarella is made...
Multinational food corporations have a growing influence on the health of people around the world, including obesity, and their actions need greater scrutiny, according to an editorial in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS). The editorial kicks off the journal’s three-week series...
The second episode of the new BBC2 series The Men Who Made Us Fat, an investigation into the obesity pandemic in Britain, looks at how the concept of super-sizing has contributed to change eating habits
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An interesting article in The Star looks at the social and cultural complexities of eating, healthily and otherwise, in South Africa's rapidly urbanising township areas. Cheap and ubiquitous fast food is a classic side...
Frito-Lay has long dominated the snack-food business by relentlessly focusing on the middle swath of America that eats chips and pretzels without regard to the effect on the waistline. Now, though, Frito-Lay, a unit of PepsiCo, is building a “company within a company”...
Most South Africans do not believe tasty food can be made with less salt, and few realise cutting their intake may fend off a heart attack or stroke, according to new research by food giant Unilever. Getting to grips with consumer...
The Spirits Business, a leading UK-based international trade journal and a voice for the International Bartenders’ Association, has named Amarula a key contender in its new spirits survey, Reigning Supreme: Brand Champions 2012, released this month (June)....
Cape Town's BOS Iced Tea company has hit global beverage marketing headlines with a social media promotion, par excellance, using what appears to be the world's first Twitter-activated vending machine. The machine is named BEV, and has been rewarding people at Cape Town's Wembley Square...
The vegetables in salads are chock-full of important vitamins and nutrients, but you won't get much benefit without the right type and amount of salad dressing, a Purdue University study shows....
Scientists at Leatherhead Food Research in the UK have come up with what could be described as the healthiest meal in the world, proven by science, and the menu looks pretty darn tasty....