Our current cultural obsession with food is undeniable. But, while the advent of the foodie may be a 21st century phenomenon, from an evolutionary standpoint, flavour has long helped define who we are as a species, a new book, Tasty, argues. Written by...
Researchers at UC San Francisco have launched SugarScience, a groundbreaking research and education initiative designed to highlight the most authoritative scientific findings on added sugar and its impact on health.
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The European government voted yesterday to allow individual member states to decide whether they grow or ban the use of GM crops in their own nation.
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Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) in mid-December 2014 announced it was selling its global cocoa business to Olam International for $1.3-billion. This propels the Singaporean coffee-to-cashews trader to the top ranks of cocoa processors by volume alongside Barry Callebaut of Switzerland and US-based Cargill, as...
The end/start of a year always brings voluminous trend insights and predictions — from research companies, newspapers, chefs, flavour-makers, food companies, bloggers...
The problem with modern diets is that they rely too heavily on modern, processed foods. If only we emulated the eating habits of our paleolithic predecessors, we’d be healthier and less obese. That’s the premise of popular “paleo” diets. As this article debates, the truth...
Fishing conglomerate Oceana is looking to cast the nets of its highly profitable canned fish business into African markets.
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Kenya's Florence Wambugu is a pioneering and tireless supporter of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and biotechnology in food production in the developing world - and she was named as one of the humanitarian/PC-busting online magazine, spikedonline-com's people of the year for 2014. Sadly,...
Firmenich, the second-largest global flavour house, has announced that honey is its 'Flavour of the Year' for 2015.
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The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, has published details of its research into a new diet pill called Fexaramine that, unlike anything before it, may well open the door to successful and safe global weight loss.
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Respected UK think-tank on the healthy food-drinks sectors, New Nutrition Business, has released its acclaimed annual trends report: 10 Key Trends in Food, Nutrition and Health 2015. In 2015 ingredients and brands that are naturally functional will continue to surge, along with good...
A simple potato extract may limit weight gain from a diet that is high in fat and refined carbohydrates, according to scientists at Montreal's McGill University. The results of their recent study were so surprising that the investigators repeated the experiment just to be sure.
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Local hygiene company, Pescatech, has launched a new product – BioFinder, a product that can detect biofilms in 30 seconds on any surface in the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
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Described as the "biggest and best hospitality show on the African continent", the Food & Hospitality Africa show in 2016 is the merger between Hostex, Africa's leading expo in the industry for close on three decades, and IFEA, the international food and drink event that...
Nestlé has successfully protected its trademark for the Kit Kat shape in South Africa against International Foodstuffs’ (IFFCO’s) Tiffany Break brand.
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Last week Unilever announced it will split its US and European spreads operations into a standalone unit, a first step toward a possible exit from a struggling business that the company has failed to turn around over the past two years.
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Investors and entrepreneurs behind some of the world's newest industries have started to put their money and tech talents into farming - the world's oldest industry - with an audacious and ambitious agenda: to make sure there is enough food for the 10 billion people...
This trend briefing, compiled by Food Engineering and sponsored by B2B cloud platform provider, Covisint Corporation of Detroit, Mich, outlines some of the main food and beverage trends happening now and that are expected throughout 2015 that will affect your business. It also touches on...
This trend briefing, compiled by Food Engineering and sponsored by B2B cloud platform provider, Covisint Corporation of Detroit, Mich, outlines some of the main food and beverage trends happening now and that are expected throughout 2015 that will affect your business. It also touches on...
It is hard not to be fascinated by the food choices of political monsters, an area of learning where we can match our enthusiasms and dislikes, against people whom we otherwise take to be not-quite-human. Their culinary foibles are now revealed in Dictators' Dinners: A...