19 Nov Major French bakery brand hitting SA in 2016
Famous Brands has made a first-mover strike into a new QSR category, striking a deal to bring renowned French bakery-café chain, PAUL, to South Africa.
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18 Nov SA’s fast food market: ‘I’ll have some value, please’
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...
18 Nov Breakfast really makes kids brighter at school
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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18 Nov The amount of hidden sugar in your diet might shock you
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.
18 Nov Reinventing the kitchen knife
The kitchen knife is getting a makeover with a new design featuring a circular grip for improved ergonomics and versatility.
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18 Nov Optical sorter turbo charges Limpopo macadamia production
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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17 Nov Paying a visit to Britain’s first insect-only restaurant
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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17 Nov UK: Tesco’s new frozen avocados tick several boxes
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...
17 Nov Innova’s top food & beverage trends for 2016: ‘Clean Eating’ trend inspires a back to basics approach
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...
17 Nov Cooking the books: when that sensational new research finding isn’t all it seems
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...
17 Nov Tiger Brands cutting loose its expensive Nigerian venture
Tiger Brands said yesterday it would cut funding to its struggling Nigerian venture after nearly R1bn in write-downs.
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12 Nov Pioneer’s bid for 50% of FutureLife gets official go-ahead
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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05 Nov All Blacks win Rugby World Cup while eating a low sugar, healthy fat diet
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,...
05 Nov US: Another flippin’ success story for Chobani
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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03 Nov What is South Africa eating? Valuable new research paper fills data gap
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...
03 Nov Maggi morogo: Commercialisation of SA’s healthy heritage vegetable
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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03 Nov ZZ2’s fresh new take on tomato packaging
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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03 Nov Why ambient food needs to come alive, not fade into the background
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...
03 Nov Now Rhodes Foods puts an eastern genie in its pocket
Another month, another buy...
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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...