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PepsiCo SA has introduced a bigger, bolder, thicker version of the popular tortilla-style corn chip range with the launch of Doritos JACKED.
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Euromonitor International’s new global cheese research provides the latest insight on how the cheese industry is expected to perform in 2015 and identifies the key prospects through to 2020.
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Danish ingredients firm Chr Hansen reports it has devised technology to produce carmine through fermentation, meaning a cheaper, vegetarian, halaal and kosher version of the natural red colouring could be just a few years from commercial application.
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Oreos are getting a skinny new look, and its maker, Mondelez International, says the new cookie is a "sophisticated" snack for grown-ups that isn't meant to be twisted or dunked.
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One of Norway's biggest food groups, Orkla, has signed a licensing agreement with LiquiGlide to use its slippery coating for mayonnaise products in the Nordics, Germany, Benelux and the Baltics.
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Stafford's has redesigned its packaging to integrate its heritage with modern design - and the end result is striking.
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Clean label has moved beyond being a trend and is now regarded as standard in the food industry. Consumers are demanding shorter and more recognisable ingredients lists and manufacturers are responding by increasingly highlighting the naturalness and origins of their products, reports Innova Market Insights.
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Winners of the 2015 DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation have been announced - an event that's always noticed with interest by the global packaging world. 2015, says Du Pont, will be remembered as the year...
Italian chocolate group Ferrero has agreed to buy smaller UK rival, Thorntons, in the latest cross-border deal by the once acquisition-shy maker of Kinder candy and Nutella spread.
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Nestlé Purina PetCare brand Friskies has launched Pull ‘n Play, the world’s first tender edible strings for cats, in North America.
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Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced all of its bread is to be made using yeast fortified with vitamin D.
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The "noughties" was very much the decade in which functional food rose to prominence. Subtle shifts in formulation and marketing began to emphasise what was added rather than reduced. Conventional wisdom is that consumers cannot get enough of fortification, but is that really the case,...
The iconic American Hershey milk chocolate bar is getting a makeover after 120 years. The confectionery giant is undergoing a multi-year plan to overhaul all of its products which will ultimately contain "simple and easy-to-understand" ingredients.
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A recent ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) - largely SA consumers only point of effective redress despite the Consumper Protection Act - has uncovered another example of 'shrinkflation' so prevalent in the confectionery aisles.
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Earlier this month, Unilever South Africa opened the R511-million expansion at its state-of-the-art Indonsa factory in Durban, making it the group's largest savoury factory by volume. The plant was only commissioned three years ago in December 2011.
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American food giant, General Mills, will strip artificial flavours and colours from the remaining 40% of its cereals that still contain them, the latest response by the US food industry to changing customer preferences.
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A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that escalation in the number of those considered obese or overweight in the United States continues, signaling an ongoing upward swing in chronic health conditions as well.
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Nestlé will destroy 400 million packets of its hugely popular Maggi noodles, following a ban imposed by India's food safety regulator. The 'Maggi-gate' saga is one thing, a massive thing for Nestlé, but this article argues that excess lead exposure from many sources is a...
The 'Tim Noakes trial' may have been postponed until November, but the story continues. His accuser, the Association of Dietetics in SA (ADSA) has issued a statement strongly denying accusations that it's acting as a proxy for Big Food by reporting Noakes to the HPCSA for unprofessional...
Partially hydrogenated oils, those universally despised sources of trans fat, have finally been more or less banned by the FDA. This is less newsworthy than it first appears, though: manufacturers have been phasing them out for a while and they only remain in a handful...