12 Jan Pilchards for Africa
Fishing conglomerate Oceana is looking to cast the nets of its highly profitable canned fish business into African markets.
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12 Jan GM food doesn’t need labelling; it needs celebrating
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,...
07 Jan Firmenich names its 2015 “Flavour of the Year”
Firmenich, the second-largest global flavour house, has announced that honey is its 'Flavour of the Year' for 2015.
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07 Jan Is Fexaramine the weight loss pill we’ve all been waiting for?
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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04 Jan Naturally functional: remains the king of food-bev trends
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...
11 Dec Polyphenol-rich potato extract found to reduce weight gain
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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11 Dec Immediate detection of the main cause of contamination in food-bev factories
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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10 Dec Hostex and IFEA to merge into one hospitality-food show in 2016
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...
10 Dec Nestlé successfully defends Kit Kat shape mark in South Africa
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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10 Dec Unilever splits spreads business into The Baking, Cooking and Spreading Company
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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10 Dec High-tech farming poised to change the way the world eats
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...
10 Dec More 2015 food-bev trends: from food safety to cloud computing
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...
10 Dec More 2015 food-bev trends: from food safety to cloud computing
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...
10 Dec Dictators’ Dinners: From Hitler’s vegetarianism to Gaddafi’s camel milk
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...
09 Dec Food Science vs the Food Babe — who controls the story?
Anderson Partners is an American marketing communications firm specialising in the global food ingredient industry. It recently published a series of articles on "Food Science vs the Food Babe—Who Controls the Story?", a guide to push back against the uninformed and unscientific opinions of misguided...
09 Dec What happens when marketers overthink fads? FREE Hartman report
While food marketers are deciding whether a new innovation is a fad or a long-term trend, they often miss opportunities to stake a claim early and make a significant amount of money. Even fads have legs, if you get in in time. In a new...
09 Dec What happens when marketers overthink fads? FREE Hartman report
While food marketers are deciding whether a new innovation is a fad or a long-term trend, they often miss opportunities to stake a claim early and make a significant amount of money. Even fads have legs, if you get in in time. In a new...
09 Dec Why does chemotherapy make food taste terrible?
People who go through chemotherapy say one of the most frustrating side effects is that even their favourite foods taste awful. Pasta tastes like cardboard, meat tastes metallic. Patients have no desire to eat and end up getting fewer calories and less nutrition when they...
09 Dec Who made that ingredient? Maybe a genetically modified microbe?
For practically our whole history of cooking and eating, we've gotten our spices and most flavours (not to mention all of the other basic nutrients that keep us alive) straight from plants. But researchers and biotech companies are starting to produce some of these nutrients...
09 Dec BRM Brands expands into new high-end factory
Over the past 30 years Barbeque Rib Manufacturers, trading as BRM Brands, has become the market leader in value added meat and poultry manufacturing in South Africa, providing national retailers with top quality ribs. The company recently commissioned a greenfield factory in Mostyn Park, Roodepoort.
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