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Once in dire straits, SA’s magnificent game heritage has transformed into a multi billion-rand industry. The role of this heritage and game ranching extends well beyond ecotourism and hunting - it has great potential to play a role in ensuring the country’s food security....
Even the smallest quantity of Salmonella may, in the future, be easily detected with the technology known as SERS, short for "surface-enhanced Raman scattering".
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Research conducted on new realities in health and wellness by Euro RSCG Worldwide, a leading integrated marketing communications agency, shows there is a revolution in consumers’ attitudes towards their health – with interesting implications for brands both within and outside the healthcare arena....
Mail & Guardian wine writer, Tim James, has conducted a wine poll among writers, sommeliers, wine masters and buyers at regular intervals over the past twenty years to gauge expert opinion on SA's finest wineries. He's done it again this year, and the results...
Sugar is getting a great deal of bad press of late, and here's some more...
The iconic All Gold tomato sauce – part of the Tiger Brands stable – shrank from 750ml to 700ml with no fanfare recently, a development which was seen a consumer take it to the ASA.
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Aah, one of the world's biggest challenges (if you're not British) is how to keep the beer cold. Devices and innovations abound, most of them involving the indirect route by cooling the beer's container. Now, however, Japanese beer maker, Kirin, has gone a different route...
If genetic modification is agriculture's Ford Cortina, synthetic biology could give us Ferrari crops that feed the world without harming the planet...
Japan is renowned for its prodigious and eclectic-to-bizarre product innovation when it comes to food and beverages - and recently, giant beverage maker, Kirin, has announced that it will be releasing the "first-ever" health food cola on April 24. The drink will be called Kirin...
It's said to be addictive, potentially harmful and it's absolutely everywhere. But is sugar really a poison that should be kept out of vulnerable hands? [Very interesting and pertinent analysis of this hot topic. Ed]
Why do kids tend to hate 'em? Because Brussel sprouts are bitter, and kids generally don’t like bitter tastes. It’s not their fault. Human aversion to bitter and sour (generally a heightened gag reflex) is a survival instinct since most toxins taste that way, too....
Last week Kraft Foods announced that it is changing the name of its snacks division to Mondelez International when it splits the company into two separate organisations later this year. "Yikes! Are they kidding!", exclaims a marketing expert on Business Insider...
While putting on a big public showcase of its "existing-tweaked-future" technology at the triennial Anuga FoodTec expo in Cologne this week, it has been reported that Tetra Pak is developing a smart carton...
Malawian Minister of Trade and Industry, the honourable Johan Bande, presented a SADC Quality Award (in the category Service of the Year for Large Enterprises) to Anza Bester of Swift Micro Laboratories at a ceremony at the Sunbird Capital Marquee in Lilongwe, Malawi, last week....
On Monday March 26, PepsiCo released Pepsi Next, which as it hopes will be "a game changer in the cola category". It has 60% less sugar with the "real cola taste"....
Coca-Cola Great Britain is launching a brand new pack size across the MyCoke trilogy, Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero. The pocket size 375ml PlantBottle plastic bottle represents the brand’s first new on-the-go pack size launch in almost 20 years and will be supported by...
Scientists have just reported striking new evidence that green, or unroasted, coffee beans can produce a substantial decrease in body weight in a relatively short period of time....
Many people won't have heard of chia, but this ancient seed is fast becoming a superfood craze in the US and Europe....
Designed to reduce the use of pesticides, is this wheat the first of a new, eco-friendly generation of genetically-modified crops, one that scientists hope will be more acceptable to the fiercely-resistant British public?...
Most South African food industrialists are probably by now (or should be) au fait with "R146", the new food labelling regulations, and what they entail. Coming into force this month, there has been much media interest in what R146 means for the public, with Megan...