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Whether it's an affinity for a particular meal or brand, or a reflection of the dire spending environment as escalating costs and debt rein in household budgets, what is clear is that value for money has become the order of the day in the fast...
A direct and positive link between pupils' breakfast quality and consumption, and their educational attainment, has for the first time been demonstrated in a ground-breaking new study carried out by public health experts at Cardiff University.
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Added sugar in our diet is a very recent phenomenon and only occurred when sugar, obtained from sugar cane, beet and corn, became very cheap to produce. It’s a completely unnecessary part of our calorie intake: it has no nutritional value, gives no feeling of fullness and is acknowledged to be a major factor in causing obesity and diabetes both in the UK and worldwide.
The kitchen knife is getting a makeover with a new design featuring a circular grip for improved ergonomics and versatility.
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Macridge, a well-established macadamia processor in Limpopo's Soutpansberg Mountains, has taken its production to new levels thanks to an investment in advanced sorting technology.
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It is usually frowned upon for a restaurant to welcome the company of cockroaches, let alone a family of large Madagascan ones. But one kitchen in rural Pembrokeshire has won a social entrepreneur award for doing just that, before it even opened.
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Too slow to ripen or too squidgy and brown inside, avocados often end up contributing to the UK’s food waste mountain. But retailer, Tesco, believes it has the answer to these avocado woes: frozen, de-stoned, peeled and ripe when they...
The 'clean eating' trend has inspired a back-to-basics approach in product development and is an overarching theme in Innova Market Insights’ Top Ten Trends list for 2016. Here trends 1-5 are detailed...
Few media reports in the health sphere generate as much attention as those with screaming headlines about a new link between food and cancer. The level of interest is understandable. But a common mistake in reporting these findings is to confuse the strength of...
Tiger Brands said yesterday it would cut funding to its struggling Nigerian venture after nearly R1bn in write-downs.
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A merger that sparked fears of a monopoly of sorts within the instant porridge market has been given the green light.
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Anyone would agree that the All Blacks’ performance in the Rugby World Cup was amazing – they worked together like a well-oiled machine. And now it has come to light, under the influence of strength and conditioning coach, Dr Nicholas Gill,...
The corner pot concept for yoghurt has been around since the 1980s, but today it's proving another huge winner for America's Greek yoghurt king, Chobani.
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There is an infamous dearth of accessible data and intelligence on food trends and consumption in South Africa, unless you have deep pockets to buy expensive reports from various market research companies. The largest and only national food consumption survey conducted in SA was way...
Nestlé South Africa has launched a new line of Maggi noodles containing the green leafy vegetable ‘morogo’, which is being commercialised for the first time ever as a result of a three-year research collaboration with the CSIR and the ARC.
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South Africa's ZZ2, a world leader in tomato production, has come up with an innovative new way to package some of its many tomato variants.
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Ambient. The word itself can be confusing. And the term ‘Ambient food’ doesn’t necessarily conjure up a picture of a delicious, fresh or irresistible offer. But, many of these foods are our daily staples. The reality is that we need these products – and always...
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It seems as though no other substance occupies so much of the world’s land, for so little benefit to humanity, as sugar.
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There has been a deluge of reaction, for and against, to last week's announcement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that processed meat – like bacon, sausages and ham – is a Class 1 carcinogen, a claim...