12 Sep Newsletter 12 September 2014
12 September 2014 We hunt down the latest food-drinks news and trends so you don't have to! ...
11 Sep Our everyday GM foods: chicken, almonds, tomatoes, grapefruit etc
For the health-conscious, the prevailing wisdom is that 'natural' food is the best food. However, one scientific fact is inescapable: basically none of our dietary staples are natural.
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11 Sep September NewsWrap
We hunt down the latest food-drinks news and trends so you don't have to! September's cherry-picking trawl through the global food-drinks worlds...
11 Sep Low-carb diets better for weight loss, heart health: major new study
People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favoured for decades, a major new study shows.
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11 Sep Curvy new Cadbury Dairy Milk bars: another stealth price rise?
Cadbury Dairy Milk bars have a new shape - with rectangular blocks giving way to a curves. Science has proven that a round shape is one of the best when it comes to chocolate melting and smoothness, but when launched in the UK in 2012,...
11 Sep Listeria kills 15 Danes: Why the bacterium is so hard to fight
Listeria is a dreaded bacterium. Over the last few weeks, 15 people have died in Denmark, infected with Listeria from processed meat. The total number sickened is 38. Now research from University of Southern Denmark has uncovered exactly how cunning Listeria is and why it...
10 Sep Eating, not sugar, is addictive – finds new study
A new study finds that we are not addicted to sugar or to chocolate in the way we can be addicted to drugs, but we can get hooked on eating itself.
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10 Sep There’s no such thing as ‘plain old vanilla’
Vanilla has become a metaphor for "plain" but nothing could be further from the truth. Vanilla is one of the most complex spices around, boasting at least 250 different flavour and aroma compounds, only one of which is vanillin that can be made artificially and...
10 Sep Sour blow for Botswana as Mondelez closes chewing gum plant
In a rationalisation move that was inevitable, Mondelez International says it will close its chewing gum plant in Botswana in December and move production to Poland as African consumers ditch pellet gum for slab gum.
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10 Sep Rhodes Food Group set for R600m JSE listing
Rhodes Food Group, the mainly Cape-based manufacturer of canned produce, cheese, processed meat and ready meals, plans to raise R600-million in a main-board JSE listing.
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10 Sep Barentz opens an office in South Africa
Barentz International, a global player in food ingredients, has announced that it's opening up shop in South Africa. It will be headed up by highly respected SA food industry veteran, Paul Vet.
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10 Sep US: McDonald’s Happy Meals losing their appeal
McDonald's has already admitted it has a problem with millennials, who want food that is healthier and fresher than much of what the chain offers. Now it looks as if McDonald's has a problem with kids, too.
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06 Sep The joy of cooking? Yeah right!
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04 Sep Cargill to buy ADM’s chocolate business for $440-million
Cargill, the largest privately held US company, has agreed to acquire Archer-Daniels-Midland's chocolate business for about $440-million to increase production in North America.
...29 Aug Newsletter 29 August 2014
29 August 2014 We hunt down the latest food-drinks news and trends so you don't have to! ...
29 Aug Woolworths: Shining brightly in the gloom
The economy may be weak, and the consumer depressed, but Woolworths is showing little sign of it as the retailer takes market share in both food and clothing and continues its expansion drive into the rest of Africa and Australia.
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28 Aug SA products feature poorly in Shoprite’s African expansion
Shoprite is the African continent's retail kingpin but, alas, it's three top-performing countries outside South Africa are 80% stocked with non-SA products. The company is having a "hard time" with SA manufacturers, CEO Whitey Basson has said: "They don't really appreciate the fact that its...
28 Aug Where’s the protein trend going?
The next big trend in protein may be protein-plus. Multiple functional claims, such as protein with probiotics or protein with energy, are expected to rise, according to a new Packaged Facts report.
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27 Aug First ‘truly crispy oven snacks’ come to market
Following years of R&D, Crisp Sensation Holdings, Swiss owner of a worldwide patented food coating system, has announced that its licensee Royaan has launched the first products made with its breakthrough crumb coating.
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27 Aug Burger King to buy Canada’s Tim Hortons, moves HQ to Canada
Burger King delivered Uncle Sam a real Whopper this week. It announced that it was buying Canadian doughnut outfit Tim Hortons in a move widely seen as a bid to lower its tax bills.
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