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From the pureed food on spoons to the formula in bottles, you’d be hard pressed to find a parent who didn’t want the best for their baby. And they're willing to spend for it. In fact, Nielsen estimates global baby food and formula sales will...
Forget the Big Mac attack. Now is the time of the snack attack. After years of slinging super-sized servings, some fast-food chains are starting to see the benefits of offering daintier bites. That includes mini-hot dogs, little chicken sandwiches and shakes that are smaller than...
High pressure processing (HPP) will be the most commercially important food processing technology for European industry in the next ten years, according to new data.
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Woolworths has announced it is removing sugary temptation from its checkout aisles - following the footsteps of most UK retailers and again setting the retail bar in SA.
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Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate just got smoother and silkier with the launch of Cadbury Dairy Milk Silk, a new premium addition to South Africa's best-loved chocolate range.
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It’s not quite a silk purse from a sow’s ear, but a Swiss PhD student has developed a method for obtaining high-quality fibres from a by-product of slaughterhouse waste.
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Human consumption of bacterially contaminated water causes millions of deaths each year throughout the world--primarily among children. While studying the material properties of paper as a graduate student, Theresa Dankovich, PhD, discovered and developed an inexpensive, simple and easily transportable nanotechnology-based method to purify drinking...
For almost 50 years, the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) has measured the caloric consumption, and body heights and weights of Americans. A new review of its data published in the journal Nutrition firmly points the finger at the US's dietary guidelines...
The falling cost of milk has created a furore in Britain, as dairy farmers there and in Western Europe have been hit by something of a perfect storm. Anyone with a heart should have sympathy for people whose livelihoods are being threatened by forces beyond...
Adding or rearranging a few simple steps in commercial processing could dramatically improve the flavour of tomatoes, according to new research presented at last week's 250th National Meeting & Expo of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society.
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Blueberries and raspberries sales are up as newer, robuster varieties bring greater yields and liquidisers such as Nutribullet fly off the shelves, according to this article from The Guardian.
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There are many things we cannot change. But waste is something we can. We can decide straight away that we will not go on tolerating our current levels of waste in all its various forms. We can start to make a difference — today. So...
The protein and amino acid supplement market is big business. Bars, shakes, giant tubs of powder and specialist amino acid supplements dominate supplement shelves. But the decision to use them is based more on slick marketing claims than anything else; protein supplements offer few real...
Implied motion in food advertising – such as an image of juice being poured into a glass – may make food appear fresher and more appealing, according to a study published in Food Quality and Preference.
An apple mutation in the Elgin Valley is being hailed as the fruit discovery of the decade - an apple that is redder than normal, and stays redder for longer, reports the Sunday Times.
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The storm clouds have been brewing over fructose for some time now, and the days when "fructose" sounded better and more natural on a label than "glucose" or simply "sugar" are fast coming to an end, asserts Euromonitor International analyst, Simone Baroke.
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Californian seafood processor, Bumble Bee Foods, will fork out $6-million in fines and compensation for the horrific death of an employee cooked alive in 5,400kg of tuna fish.
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Cross contamination in commercial processing facilities that prepare spinach and other leafy greens can cause food-borne illness. But researchers are reporting a new, easy-to-implement method that could eliminate or reduce it.
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Has anyone in the history of civilisation popped open a tube of Pringles and eaten just one? For the humble snack — a crispy concoction of chemical flavourings, salt and starch — must surely rank as one of the most addictive foods in existence.
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On Monday August 10 on the International Space Station, a batch of romaine lettuce became the first food grown and consumed in space. On a gustatory adventure never attempted by humanity, the verdict from astronaut Scott Kelly went: “Tastes good. Kinda like arugula.”...