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A team at Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh has produced modified proteins that easily break down into micro-particles and therefore closely mimic the behaviour of fats during food manufacture which it believes is far advanced on any previous replacers.
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DSM reports that the appeal of yoghurt is on the rise around the world. It has published results of a survey carried out in countries as varied as China, US, Brazil and Turkey, in a Global Insight paper, and which has found a growing demand...
A clean-up process has commenced at Nestlé South Africa's Cremora creamer manufacturing factory in Potchefstroom, North West province, where a fire broke out in the afternoon of Friday July 11. The blaze started in the electrical control room.
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Consumer goods giant Unilever has shed its Slim-Fast milkshake and snack bar brand in another belt-tightening move.
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There's no keeping him out of the headlines! Prof Tim Noakes makes a large front-page splash in today's Cape Times with this report, advising in a talk he gave yesterday that instead of carbohydrates such as pap and bread, children should be fed animal organs,...
A very small number of South African FMCG brands are making the conscious effort to extend engagement with the consumer beyond product consumption...
In many ways, Millennial tastes and behaviours foreshadow what's coming in consumer consumption. A new report from The Hartman Group, Outlook on the Millennial Consumer 2014, takes an in-depth look at what they're doing and how food manufacturers and retailers can take part in this...
A new scientific review in the British Journal of Nutrition claims organic foods are higher in some nutrients and lower in pesticides compared with conventionally grown varieties.
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Pescatech, a leading distributor of international cleaning solutions for the food-beverage industries has launched Vikan brushware in PINK! Vikan now offers more cleaning tools in more colours than any other competitive manufacturer.
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We may think of ourselves as just human, but we’re really a mass of microorganisms housed in a human shell. Every person alive is host to about 100 trillion bacterial cells. They outnumber human cells 10 to one and account for 99.9...
IFEA 2014 – Africa's international food and drink exhibition – is said to be attracting exhibitors from all over the world as they prepare to expose their brands to decision-makers from the burgeoning pan-African market who are looking for the latest and the best international...
There's a joke doing the rounds in Cape Town, where the so-called "Tim Noakes diet" has taken off: you can't find cauliflower or double cream yoghurt for love or money. The humble flower head is fast replacing starches such as rice, pasta and potatoes on...
Low carbohydrate diets, as advocated by Prof Tim Noakes of UCT's Sports Science Institute, result in no more weight loss than "recommended balanced diets", a Stellenbosch University study, just released, has found. Noakes has dismissed the findings.
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Cooking might not be rocket science, but it has taken a rocket scientist from Oxford University to reinvent the humble saucepan.
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Somewhere in Iowa, volunteers are earning $900 apiece by providing blood samples after eating bits of a banana kissed with a curious tinge of orange. It's the first human trial of a banana that's been genetically engineered to contain higher levels of beta carotene, the...
From the grocery aisle to the TV dial, wildly innaccurate and false health and safety claims about foods and their ingredients serve to scare consumers away from many products and ingredients. Researchers at Cornell University have investigated this phenomenon more closely.
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Crumbs Bake Shop, America's largest specialty cupcake chain, told employees on Monday that the New York–based company would be shutting down all of its stores at the end of the business day.
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The newest thinking on sustainable, healthy, delicious farming comprises two key movements: one focused on the importance of land and the soil and another completely eschewing soil for hydroponics in urban buildings, reports The Hartman Group.
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Research conducted by Stanford and Boston University business academics has explored the question of how the feeling of satiety affects how soon people might eat the same food again; and the upshot is that humans take more pleasure in moderation than over-indulgence.
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When it comes to resolving a big global food problem, a new breed of farmers and their financial backers are thinking small. Work on the world's largest fly farm in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, has begun after the European firm behind the project won much-needed funding...