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There is nothing wrong with the occasional treat, but sugar has no place as part of a "healthy balanced diet". This provocative commentary is by high-profile London cardiologist, Aseem Malhotra, MBChB, MRCP, who is one of the prime movers in the war on sugar.
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Butter is great, chocolate is amazing – put the two together and you have every chocoholic’s dream come true.
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Meal-kit services have been around for many years, but their size and scale has been rocketing in the US and elsewhere. But new research shows a flaw in this trajectory.
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The SA food-drinks industries' most significant event of 2017: the 22nd SAAFoST Biennial International Congress and Exhibition, will be taking place next September in Cape Town.
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Rhodes Food Group is buying KwaZulu-Natal based producer Ma Baker for R212-million as it seeks to strengthen its position in SA’s growing pie and pastry market.
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Eet-Sum-Mor, the beloved shortbread biscuit brand in the BAKERS stable, is now available in a new variant: Chocolate Chip.
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Consumption of animal fats is on the rise in the US, and the trend is led by millennials, according to a new survey from Coast Packing Company and Ipsos Research.
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Most foodies warn against storing tomatoes in the fridge, saying it saps them of their flavour. New research confirms this culinary opinion.
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Rising demand for quality coffees and sweet treats has lured yet another American favourite to SA’s shores.
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Tyson Foods appears to be the first big meat company to invest in a business that, among other things, aims to reduce consumption of chicken, beef and pork by replacing it with plant proteins.
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In response to growing consumer pressure, Mars announced in February that over the next five years it would replace artificial colours from all its processed human foods with pigments found in natural substances. Here's the story behind this incredibly challenging task...
Introducing Kernza, a new breed of wheat. Could this little seed help save the planet?
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DENNY, SA’s number one producer and supplier of fresh mushrooms has just launched the country’s first mushroom burger. (Nicest bit of really innovative NPD this editor has seen in a long while! Ed)
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There’s a lot of hype around edible insects. Insects are being championed as a healthy and sustainable alternative to conventional protein sources in Europe and the US, and “ento-prising” new products are appearing almost every week. Cricket-based cocktail bitters, anyone?
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A hot tip for this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was Jeffrey Gordon (the prize went to Yoshinori Ohsumi). Over the past 15 years, Gordon has progressed an obscure study of boring gut microbes to being a nearly daily topic in the...
Supermarket ready meals had better watch their backs. Famous Brands, owner of eateries such as Turn ’n Tender and Wimpy, broke with tradition and bought a stake in caterer By Word of Mouth. It would seem an odd fit at first, but it really isn’t.
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California's Silicon Valley has developed a special affinity for all things food: meal kits, plant-based burgers, new-fangled food delivery services. But the growth demands on the typical tech startup don’t necessarily square with the needs of food-based companies.
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Famous Brands has made its first foray into the food service leisure sector, acquiring a 49.9% stake in the award-winning commercial catering company, By Word of Mouth.
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Obesity in South Africa has hit epidemic proportions. But while the science is clear about the extent of our expanding waist lines, it is not as easy to quantify the why. HEALTH-E NEWS investigates...