Although a big trend in Europe and more recently in the US, the habit of eating biscuits for breakfast is new to South Africans. No more, perhaps! Bakers, in National Brands' stable, is jumping on this wagon - and trumping Mondelez, a key rival that...
Popcorn – long dismissed as a mature and rather boring packaged food category with minimal growth potential – has burst back to life. The American resurgence [and elsewhere] is not in the mainstream microwave popcorn market or movie bucket sector, but in the pre-popped, ready-to-eat...
WikiPearls, a future food packaging concept, have been around for a few years now and have deservedly garnered much media coverage and innovation awards. The latest is a citation by Time Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2014.
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It surely started as a one-man experiment, and evolved into something of a social media joke - but Soylent, the Los Angeles start-up that makes a powdery meal replacement with a sweeping nutritional composition, has just raised $20-million in additional venture capital, the company announced...
More South Africans will soon get to experience a trendy, new, fast-but-personalised restaurant concept, now that the Spur Corporation is set to acquire the majority stake in RocoMamas.
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What food trends will be big in 2015? It's that time of year again when magazines are filled with personal horoscopes and predictions on what the New Year will hold. But predicting future trends can...
Food labels seem to provide all the information a thoughtful consumer needs, so counting calories should be simple. But things get tricky because food labels tell only half the story. A calorie is a measure of usable energy. Food labels say how many calories a...
Bisphenol A (BPA) poses no health risk to consumers of any age group, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
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If you had but one New Year's resolution to keep, maybe it should be to get up and move a little more. Yet another study shows that a sedentary lifestyle is the 'new smoking'.
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With "fresh" and "healthy" emerging as food industry buzz words, it's easy to wonder if frozen foods — which almost inherently fail to conjure up associations with either fresh or healthy products — still appeal to the majority of American consumers. They do, says a...
Rhodes Food Group, which has launched several interesting packaing innovations in recent years, has introduced a convenient plastic packaging option for its jam products.
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Since he became the head of R&D about seven years ago, Dr Mehmood Khan has led what many at PepsiCo refer to as an R&D transformation. Evidence of his transformative thinking is abundant in packaging, as he believes that packaging now more than ever must be...
"The theory that blood cholesterol and a high fat diet are the causes of heart disease will be one of the greatest errors in the history of medicine." With a statement like this it's no wonder that Prof Tim Noakes has been heavily criticised for...
Cape Town sports scientist Prof Tim Noakes is in great shape. At 65, after four years on his low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diet, his energy levels are stratospheric, and his running has improved spectacularly. Here Noakes clarifies fundamentals of his diet.
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This exciting discovery on an Mpumalanga plantation ends a farmer's nine-year quest to cultivate one of the most expensive delicacies in the world - and could be the start of a lucrative new agri-industry.
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After learning that the pork it was serving did not meet its animal welfare guidelines, fast-track, fast-casual Mexican restaurant chain, Chipotle, has temporarily stopped serving pork-based carnitas at 600 stores around the nation. Why is this potentially self-harming move interesting and pertinent?
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A Stanford, California, biochemistry professor has invented a meat-free burger that looks and bleeds juice just like the beef you cook on a grill. Venture capitalists and Bill Gates think he's onto something and have put up millions in backing dollars.
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IFFCO, the United Arab Emirates-headquartered company is hoping to overturn an earlier ruling from the Supreme Court that prevented it from selling its Tiffany Break bar because it was allegedly in breach of Nestlé Kit Kat trademark. The case is now...
Consumers are buying more of Clover's full cream products and slightly fewer of its low fat offerings, says CEO Johann Vorster. Promulgated and hugely popularised in SA by sports scientist Prof Tim Noakes, a low-carbohydrate, high-fat eating plan has been widely adopted by SA's middle...
Bridging a gap in the market between fast-food joints and full-service restaurants, fast-casual chains such as Nando's chicken, Shake Shack and Chipotle Mexican Grill are enjoying success across the world. The combined sales of American fast-casual outlets rose by 10.5% last year, compared with 6.1%...