The Swedish oat milk brand, Oatly, is the fifth food brand to recently announce plans to go public, after six others made debuts on the public markets in the past 12 months – more food activity in the markets than the entire decade before it!
In four years, blueberry production in SA grew sixfold and jobs in the sector grew eightfold. Its industry body, BerriesZA, aims to triple exports - but it needs access to the lucrative Chinese market.
The continuation of live animal exports is being challenged here and throughout the world, with the recognition that its commercial value is blighted by gross animal welfare and human rights violations.
Tate & Lyle, a leading global provider of food and beverage solutions and ingredients, has launched Stabiliser University, a new online modular course designed to help formulators and food scientists solve even the toughest stabiliser formulation challenges.
Tim Noakes needs no introduction... listen to him on this podcast talking his new book, some modifications to his LCHF theory and the impact of Covid-19 on diabetics and the obese.
US President Joe Biden has signed legislation declaring sesame a major food allergen, meaning all products that use sesame seeds or derivatives will have to be explicitly labelled after Jan 1, 2023.
Ponder this: If our canine and feline friends made up their own country, they’d be the world’s fifth-largest consumer of meat among the league of nations. One maker, Because Animals, is extracting cells from mice and rabbits — close to what dogs and cats might enjoy in the wild — and growing them in a bioreactor.
Paarl-based Afriplex, supplier of innovative functional ingredients, has taken a step into the alternative dairy space, offering clients multiple possibilities for novel NPD.
Here's a fascinating food processing innovation.... a US startup called Farther Farms that's converting traditionally refrigerated and frozen foods to shelf-stable, via a new type of pasteurisation.
Israeli sugar-tech company, DouxMatok, has released its first direct-to-consumer product featuring its Incredo Sugar, a sugar-based solution that enables 30 to 50 percent sugar reduction.
The restaurant and bar sector has been absolutely slammed by the Covid-19 lockdowns and draconian policies such as prohibition. The data on income generated by the sector make for reading so grim it could drive one to drink. But takeaways and fast food are showing signs of recovery.
Woolworths has announced that an additional 50 stores plus two new stores will be single-use plastic shopping bag free by the end of April and has replaced plastic packaging with kraft packaging for popular ‘Ripe and Ready’ avocados which equates to an annual plastic saving of 35 - 40 tons.
A century ago, food was industrialized. Since then, new styles of agriculture and food production have written a new chapter of human history, one that’s driving both climate change and global health crises. Best-selling American food writer, Mark Bittman, offers a panoramic view of the story and explains how we can rescue ourselves from the modern wrong turn.
New Israeli research may pave the way for drugs that “turn off the hunger switch” in the human brain with minimal side effects, scientists say.
Packing in 12 high-fibre, plant-based ingredients and no additives, Modern Baker’s Superloaf claims to be as healthy as eating vegetables, and has won the praise of ‘gut guru’, Dr Tim Spector.
MeliBio, a California-based start-up making real honey without bees, expects to have its first product on the market in late 2021.
HACCP can be scary, and Entecom understands this. In this new podcast series, well known food safety expert, Rolf Uys, tackles the struggles and obstacles that food companies might face, and how to fix them.
Daily Maverick has a new investigative food team and it is publishing a four-part series, ‘The Sugar Saga’. Part one looks at the origins of how fat came to be demonised, while the real demon, sugar, was exorcised in the human diet.
As Extended Producer regulations loom in SA, leading SA packaging group, Polyoak, took the opportunity on Global Recycling Day (18 March 2021) to put its recycling credentials forward, both internally to employees and also to its market base.
Checkers is taking another step on Woolies' toes with the launch of a new premium food range called Forage & Feast.