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If you think that food and drink products with fewer and simpler ingredients are rapidly becoming top-sellers – think again, advises New Nutrition Business.
...South Africa's maggot farming startup, AgriProtein, has generated massive interest, at home and abroad. Now, illustrious TIME magazine has published a lengthy feature update on the business and its fantastic eco potential and profit.
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A new miniature cooker from Israel called the Genie is set to spark a revolution in meal preparation – it's able to turn pods of freeze-dried ingredients into full meals in as little as half a minute.
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McDonald’s South Africa launched its 'Know Our Food' programme last week, providing answers to around 100 frequently asked customer questions.
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One of the major problems in the confectionery industry is chocolate 'blooming', the formation of white defects on the chocolate surface due to fat crystals. A new study looks at a better understanding of blooming and ways to mitigate it.
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Flame-grilled chicken restaurant chain Nando's is embarking on a major revamp programme in its South African stores, as it adds more outlets to its 300-plus local portfolio.
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Almost every Western home has a microwave oven. The convenience they offer is undeniable. But despite the widespread use of microwave ovens and their excellent safety record, some people have lingering doubts that cooking food with microwaves somehow makes food less healthy by zapping away...
Removing gluten is one thing, but promoting it and other 'missing' ingredients from foods and beverages sends the wrong message, argues John Stanton, contributing editor and marketing commentator for FoodProcessing.com. [He makes some cogent points! Ed]
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From a commercial perspective, it’s still early days for myceliation, a process by which mushrooms (or rather, their filament-like roots or ‘mycelium’) can remove bitter compounds and naturally occurring toxins from some of the world’s most valuable crops and enhance their nutritional profile. But 2015...
The Swedish grocery chain, Coop, asked a family to eat only organic for two weeks to see the difference in pesticide levels in their bodies. While many might question the methods, and actual effects of the pesticides, as a piece of marketing, it makes a...
The maker of the world’s best-selling chocolate candy is advocating that people eat less added sugar.
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The imminent foray of Botswana-based grocery retailer Choppies Enterprises on the JSE has few convinced that the company might be a game changer for the already over traded retail market in South Africa, reports Moneyweb.
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You might have heard of smart bugs – those that have mutated and become resistant to ordinary antibiotics. But there is another, less well-known microscopic substance that is dangerous to human health – "smart dirt". So what is "smart dirt" and what is being done...
When Morgan Spurlock famously spent a month eating large portions of McDonalds for the purposes of his documentary Supersize Me, he gained weight, damaged his liver and claimed to have suffered addictive withdrawal symptoms. This was popularly attributed to the toxic mix of carbs...
Mérieux NutriSciences has opened a raw milk testing laboratory in Jeffreys Bay, allowing the group (which entered the country via its 2012 joint venture with Swift Silliker) to better meet the clients' expectations on the growing local market.
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The world's diet consists of vastly more meat, dairy, and sugar than it did two decades ago. It also consists of much less grain.
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As a result of the emotive language often used in conjunction with “chemicals”, a series of myths have emerged. Myths that Sense about Science and the Royal Society of Chemistry are debunking with the publication of Making Sense of Chemical Stories....
Digging deeper into this saga, as Marika Sboras, well-known health journalist on BizNews.com, has done, it seems certain that someone is going to come out of it with a bloody nose. Those someones are likely to be important food players and the dietary establishment. Reading...
The supplements industry is big business but do you know what's really in the packet? Is taking them worth the risk?
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