05 Mar Whole Foods: America’s temple of pseudoscience
04 Mar Enterprise zip seals its Viennas
Nice touch of convenience from Enterprise for its 1kg Vienna sausage range - the addition of a zipper lock to the packaging....
04 Mar Superfast ‘breakfast on tap’
UK cereal company, Mornflake, is looking to bring “ultra convenience” to the breakfast market with cereal pots that don’t require the addition of milk.
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03 Mar Waitrose enters SA via partnership with Fruit & Veg City-Food Lovers
South African’s consumers' foremost destination for fresh produce - Food Lover’s Market, has forged a groundbreaking partnership with UK retail giant, Waitrose.
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03 Mar Is your morning coffee too bitter? This might help
Many of us have at some point been given a cup of coffee that is so bitter, it is almost undrinkable. Most reach for the sugar in an attempt to make the beverage a little more palatable. Wrong!
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03 Mar America’s proposed new nutrition label
The White House and FDA has announced a long-awaited proposal for updated nutrition labels. Here's a comparison of the existing one and the new...
27 Feb Clover commissions revamped Queensburgh plant
Dairy producer Clover recently officially opened its expanded production and distribution facility in Queensburgh, Durban, a R171-m investment that's part of Project Cielo Blu, the dairy company’s primary R350-m capital expenditure programme following its listing on the JSE in 2010. [Click pic to...
27 Feb Three-year pizza to join US Army MRE delicacies
Military science, or rather food science, is close to completing its most epic and delicious quest yet — to put pizza in the US Army's infamous rations or MREs, aka Meal, Ready to Eat....
26 Feb New boss for Kellogg’s Sub-Saharan Africa
Kellogg has appointmented of Gerald Mahinda, 55, as Managing Director Sub-Saharan Africa, with effect from February 1, 2014. Mahinda joins Kellogg from Diageo where he spent 14-years in leadership roles and was instrumental in delivering transformational growth for Diageo in...
21 Feb Asia’s richest man is betting big on Silicon Valley’s fake eggs
While most start-ups struggle to raise the funds to turn their dreams into reality, Hampton Creek Foods CEO Josh Tetrick has convinced some of the world’s wealthiest people that his plant-based egg replacers are worth a serious punt. Li Ka-shing, widely billed...
21 Feb Food giants are trimming costs – but not advertising
In the face of tough economics and stiff competition from fresh foods and smaller brands, the likes of Kraft, Kellogg and Mondelez have committed to more cost-cutting and more targeted digital marketing.
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20 Feb America’s top FMCG companies at “painful strategic crossroads”
As America’s big FMCG guns congregated in Florida for the Consumer Analyst Group of New York (CAGNY) conference this week, many of them are at a strategic and painful crossroads, observes Rabobank.
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20 Feb Woolworths’ little secret to big success
The story of Woolworths — a company whose value soared from under R6bn to R51bn in a decade — is one that has confounded pundits and sociologists alike....
20 Feb John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar
A British professor's 1972 book about the dangers of sugar is now seen as prophetic. John Yudkin, first proving that sugar was bad for our health, was ignored by the majority of the medical profession and rubbished by the food...
20 Feb Concerns over chemicals in food packaging misplaced, say scientists
Concerns about synthetic chemicals in packaging and plastic bottles contaminating food and drink are largely misplaced, scientists have said in response to calls for greater monitoring of the long-term effect on human health.
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20 Feb Denmark bans kosher and halal slaughter as minister says ‘animal rights come before religion’
Denmark’s government has brought in a ban on the religious slaughter of animals for the production of halal and kosher meat, after years of campaigning from welfare activists....
20 Feb UK: Unilever looks to expand phytosterol esters to cooking and baking margarines
Unilever has applied to extend the use of the key cholesterol-lowering ingredient used in its Flora pro.activ range into cooking, baking and liquid margarine products, which would tap simultaneously into the growth sectors of functional foods and home-baking....
20 Feb Can the cure for peanut allergies be… peanuts?
A large clinical trial published recently in the Lancet confirms what smaller studies have shown in the past: Oral immunotherapy - swallowing tiny, increasing amounts of peanut over time - has the ability to desensitise allergic individuals to peanuts....
20 Feb A year for eating dangerously
Search for "food trends in 2014" on the internet and you will be told macaroons are out and éclairs are in, carbohydrates are out but lard is back, cauliflower is the new Brussels sprout, Thai is passé and the flavours of Latin...
19 Feb Learning to cut the sugar
Dr Robert Lustig, the American pediatric endocrinologist who is now famous as "Mr Anti-Sugar", says he would rather be viewed as the "anti-processed food guy", since sugar — while his biggest concern — is just one of a number of ills he...
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