The Dept of Agriculture has created huge commotion and confusion over its ham-fisted new ruling on labelling for plant-based meat analogues. Here's what SA food industry legal guru, Janusz Luterek of Hahn & Hahn Attorneys, has to say on the matter...
Censorship or sensible? South Africa's Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) has imposed a ban on "meaty" names for plant-based meat alternatives.
Global ingredients powerhouse Doehler has developed and launched a range of solutions based on African botanicals to meet the burgeoning demand for better food for better health.
For centuries, a delectable steak or pork loin has been the preferred choice for diners as societies grew more affluent and improved their diets. No longer.
Multinational food and beverage company PepsiCo, owner of South Africa's Pioneer Foods, has ambitious targets for its renewable energy programme.
The first manufactured beef steaks are set to hit restaurants next year. Israeli company Aleph Farms – funded by the sovereign wealth fund of Israel, UAE and Singapore, venture capitalists and private investors – has successfully created meaty steaks.
According to BMi Research, South Africa's pie category continues to experience constraints with sales volumes yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels.
McCain Foods, the world’s largest producer of frozen potato products, will be developing its second ‘Farms of the Future’ project, a farm focused on sustainable regenerative farming practices, near Litchenburg in the North West province.
Paarl-based pharma-functional ingredients innovator, Afriplex, has launched a cannabis oil that will allow bakers to add on-trend health benefits to many staple foods.
Your editor was recently invited to a most interesting product launch by a giant of a food group that ‘nobody has heard about’. Read on! The company in question is Promasidor, a privately-held powerhouse with multiple factories in Africa, and with a big and vibrant product...
John Harvey Kellogg and his younger brother William invented one of the first breakfast cereals in the 1890s as a health food to aid digestion, but John was furious when William created a version with added sugar. More than a century later, William’s company, now known as Kellogg, is still at the centre of a conflict between flavour and health.
Fried food is one of Americans’ oldest obsessions. The pandemic took that to a deeper level.
Billionaire activist Nelson Peltz has joined the board of Unilever, heaping pressure on the maker of Dove soap and Hellmann’s mayonnaise as it reviews its strategy.
Kerry, one of the world’s leading flavour and nutrition companies, has officially opened an impressive new factory in KZN.
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The third Knorr Plate of The Nation report, complied by NielsenIQ, uncovers SA eating patterns of interest to all stakeholders.
War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business.... a chilling editorial from The Economist...
Marmite is finding its way back to the shelves of South Africa's biggest supermarkets, but producers of the spread warn that supply will remain constrained until its backlog is cleared.
Supermarket giant Pick n Pay has implemented many failed turnaround plans in the past decade and longer. But new CEO, Pieter Boone, has unveiled his new initiatives.
Here's more provocative thinking from our favourite innovation futurist, SA's own Jonathan Cherry! Your customers are leading you in the wrong direction, he asserts here.....