08 Mar Hooch goes Lite
Hooch Fox, in the Ceres Beverage stable, has just launched new Hooch LITE, claimed as the first light alcoholic fruit beverage range in three delicious fruit flavours....
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08 Mar US: Chocolate milk makers target grown-up athletes
Chocolate milk, to allow it or not, is a hot topic for schools in America. In reaction, chocolate milk producers are turning their attention away from school kids and focusing on millions of adult athletes.
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08 Mar Wine experts: what good are they to us ordinary drinkers?
A study has found that specialist oenophiles have a much more acute sense of taste than the rest of us – and it may even be in the genes. And thus the findings raise this question: just how useful are their judgements for ordinary wine...
08 Mar UK: Cider now as popular as lager
While a challenging economic climate has resulted in rather flat sales for many alcohol sectors in the UK, new research from Mintel reveals that there is one sector which has put some fizz into the consumer marketplace and is ripe for further development - cider....
08 Mar The Oreo turns 100!
While it has only been available in this country since 1999, the most celebrated cookie in the world has to be Kraft Foods' Oreo - and this week, on March 6 2012, it turned 100! Known as "milk's favorite cookie," these creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookies...
08 Mar Looking Ahead: Ingredient Trends
The Hartman Group recently hosted a webinar entitled Looking Ahead: Ingredient Trends. This took an in-depth look at how cultural shifts in health and wellness impact ingredients in many of today’s and tomorrow’s foods and beverages. It attempts to give a better understanding on what...
08 Mar US: Top food companies put new faith in pouch packaging
Campbell Soup and Heinz are among US packaged food companies leading the charge to alternative containers - thinking outside the bottle and can and increasingly partial to pouches.
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08 Mar Fighting back for potates
Thanks to SA's sports science fundi, Prof Tim Noakes, the benefits of low-carb eating are much in the news. In reaction, perhaps, Potato SA, representative body of the potato industry, appears to be on a fight-back mission for carbs and proclaims that,...
07 Mar Study finds no link between food colours, ADHD
There is not enough scientific data to support a link between FDA-approved food colours and the increased incidence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to results of a new meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The results...
07 Mar Vegetarian cutlet: new method to produce a meat substitute
It looks like a cutlet, it's juicy and fibrous like a cutlet, and it even chews with the consistency of a real cutlet - but the ingredients are 100 percent vegetable. Researchers are using a new method to prepare a meat substitute that not only...
07 Mar Nestlé looks to uncover SA’s bio bounty
Nestlé has announced that it's entering into a new research partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a science council which reports to the Minister of Science and Technology, a collaboration aimed at discovering new bioactive ingredients with health benefits.
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07 Mar US: Science again dismisses caramel colouring scare
American advocacy group, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), is well-known/infamous for alerting the public/overblowing fears about many of the foods we eat. This week it has been creating headlines again, repeating its soda scare - on the chemical in...
06 Mar Tapping clean drinking water from thin air
There is a new water source that is pure and does not draw from the precious and ever-scarcer water resources of South Africa – enough water to ensure safe drinking water for each and every South African and it is all around us...
06 Mar Oz kids can’t see yoghurt for the trees
The overwhelming body of information about food in scientific and popular media makes consumers, even the well informed ones, really confused with no degree of clarity on any issue. While this is understandable, what is alarming is the massive ignorance among children...
06 Mar Science reporting on organic food is out to lunch
How do organic farmers prevent their crops from being devastated by the same pests—insects, weeds, and fungi—that have bedeviled farmers since the invention of agriculture? The answer is surprisingly simple: organic farmers do use pesticides. Lots of them. [This 'oped' article looks at...
02 Mar UK: Nestlé removes all artificial ingredients from all its confectionery
Nestlé has become the first major confectionery manufacturer in Britain to remove all artificial ingredients from its entire confectionery range....
02 Mar Two SA women listed as world’s most influential wine personalities
Two South African women have been shortlisted by a leading international research company for its line-up of the world’s most influential figures in wine over the past decade. ...
01 Mar US: Red Bull to launch Total Zero in April
Red Bull is set to launch Red Bull Total Zero in April, the company’s first line extension since the debut of its (now discontinued) energy shot in 2009. Aiming to tap into the growing market of calorie-averse consumers, the new product boasts a zero...
01 Mar Rapid rise of Asian middle class likely to reshape global food systems
The sophisticated food demands of newly affluent consumers in China and other developing nations are likely to cause major change in US farming and food production, Asian food policy and world trade, according to Food 2040, a new study of emerging food trends in Asia...
01 Mar US: Social media redefining the relationship with food
How Americans learn to cook, select recipes, plan their meals, purchase their food and share their culinary secrets with others has dramatically changed, according to a new study released last week. Called Clicks & Cravings: The Impact of Social Technology on Food Culture, the study...
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