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For years, the US federal government has advised Americans that they are eating too much salt, and that this excess contributes yearly to the deaths of tens of thousands of people. But unknown to many shoppers urged to buy foods that are “low sodium” and...
Earlier this year, headlines around the world trumpeted an exciting bit of news that seemed too good to be true: "Eating chocolate ...
The WorldStar Competition is one of the pre-eminent international awards in packaging. Organised by the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) to advance packaging design and technology, the 2015 awards were recently handed over at the IPACK-IMA expo in Milan, Italy.
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South Africa has been a trailblazer on the continent in the global battle to reduce salt intake through food. But three years after the bold food policy was first introduced in South Africa – and less than a year until it finally becomes law –...
Major packaged-food companies lost $4-billion in market share alone last year, as shoppers swerved to fresh and organic alternatives. Can the supermarket giants win them back? Fortune magazine spent months getting inside several of the US food industry’s key corporations to understand how they’re...
This week (4-5 June), Prof Tim Noakes will face the Health Professions Council, to answer a charge laid by the head of the Association for Dietetics of SA (ADSA) of unprofessional conduct, the worst misdemeanour a doctor can face, over an innocuous Tweet. This perverse...
Lisa Ronquest is one of South Africa's top young food scientists. After leading the Mars Africa R&D team for seven years in Cape Town, she's now ensconced in The Netherlands in a new global food R&D role for the multinational. Keen to to share her...
If asked to name current diet trends, most could rattle off any number of no/low/free-from diets currently circulating American culture – no processed sugars, low-carb, dairy free, all protein, Paleo, raw, flexitarian. The list goes on. One of the latest nutrition fads has evolved out...
News from FACTS (Food & Allergy Consulting & Testing Services), SA's leading allergen consultancy, is that a Cape Town allergy clinic has reported five recent anaphylactic (life-threatening allergic) reactions to lupin. These individuals did not know that they had an allergy to this legume; they...
Advances in robotics make it possible to automate tasks such as processing poultry and vegetables.
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In an effort to tackle the dual problems of food waste and poverty, France has passed a groundbreaking law that requires supermarkets to donate unsold food to charity, give it away as animal feed, or face fines of up to €75,000 ($82,324) and two...
AECI has agreed to acquire 100% of Southern Canned Products (SCP), a leading manufacturer and distributor of juice-based drinks and products, from Gerber Goldschmidt South Africa, a private equity investment company, and the management of SCP.
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Krispy Kreme, the American global doughnut company and coffeehouse chain, is opening shop in SA, the multinational's first venture into Africa.
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Invoking Mary Shelley’s myth of Frankenstein is standard fare in arguments over controversial science. The real story of Frankenstein, however, has become distorted but, this article argues, if we embrace it, maybe the evidence about controversial science will start to tell a different story.
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First it happened for eggs, then for nuts of all kinds, then for dark chocolate, then for wine, then for coffee, then full-fat dairy, now for red meat. It’s the discovery that these natural foods – some of them demonised by health advisors for 30...
88% of scientists say GMO foods are safe; 37% of Americans do. An excellent editorial from USA Today.
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Runaway international chocolate success story, Cadbury Dairy Milk Marvellous Creations, is now available in South Africa!
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There are many claimed cost-effective and environmentally-sound alternatives to plastic, and the latest is called FibreForm – the first 3D formable (stretchable) paper.
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Oceana Group, SA's largest fishing company which has Tiger Brands as an anchor shareholder, plans to buy Daybrook Fisheries, the US’s second-biggest processor of Gulf menhaden fish, for $382m or R4.6-bn.
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Saint Pie, set up in 1994 in Lydenburg, is a producer of pastry products, mainly savoury pies, and distributes to fuel station forecourts, food retailers and independent outlets throughout South Africa. It has distribution centres in Lydenburg, Pretoria and Welkom.
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