30 Mar Buffet Olives launches new range of pestos and tapenades
Buffet Olives is a familiar brand on grocery shelves and now consumers can enjoy six additions to the range that include delicious and easy-to-serve pestos and tapenades.
29 Mar First chicken-free egg white product reaches US markets
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One of the first products made using a novel chicken-free egg white - unique macarons - is now available in the US.
29 Mar SA Dairy Awards 2022 – Lactalis wins the top honour again!
Lactalis South Africa's 18-months Mature Cheddar, made for Woolworths, was crowned the Dairy Product of the Year at the 189th South African Dairy Awards.
29 Mar Tiger Brands’ VC fund makes its first investment
Tiger Brands' newly-established Venture Capital Fund has made its first investment in Herbivore Earthfoods, a Cape Town-headquartered business specialising in plant-based food products.
29 Mar Stressed-out consumers turning to snacks to improve their emotional health
Emotions and food have always been linked, but now snacks in particular are being used to change how the eater feels in a more targeted and conscientious way.
28 Mar Canned ‘walkie talkies’ now a reality in SA!
A favourite township street food is appearing in canned format on Shoprite shelves across South Africa, thanks to a recent deal with a young Limpopo-based entrepreneur who started his business during the height of lockdown.
28 Mar Octopus farms raise huge animal welfare and sustainability concerns
With global demand increasing for all animal protein, the concept of octopus farming is being mooted in several countries - an idea widely criticised by scientists as appalling and inhumane.
21 Mar How food and beverage companies are responding in Russia
Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Danone are just a few of the large FMCGs to stop investments, sales, advertising or other activities as the Ukraine invasion continues.
20 Mar Woolworths honours Woodlands Dairy
The Woolworths’ Farming for the Future (FFF) programme has announced that Woodlands Dairy, based in Humansdorp in the Eastern Cape, is its 2021 Top Supplier of the Year.
20 Mar Interesting evolution of healthy peanut snacking
UK snack company, Real Handful, hopes to shake up the nut category with a unique new range – Air Nuts, designed as a lighter way to snack on an old favourite.
18 Mar Montego’s impressive pet food trajectory
Montego Pet Nutrition, the largest privately-owned pet food manufacturer, brand owner and distributor in Africa with a capacity of almost 100 000 tons annually, is at the forefront of the continent’s growing pet food market.
18 Mar Putting wastewater to work
There’s value waiting to be recovered in many wastewater streams, including the water itself.
18 Mar The EU bans titanium dioxide – but the UK won’t follow suit
As of mid-2022, titanium dioxide (E171) will be banned as a food additive in the EU, by order of the European Commission. Titanium dioxide is the mostly widely used pigment to add white colour to foods, such as baked goods and sandwich spreads, to soups, sauces, salad dressing, and food supplements.
16 Mar Repurposing potato waste into high value prebiotics
UK scientists have made a breakthrough in technology to viably create valuable prebiotics from waste potato skins.
16 Mar Ukraine invasion puts local food producers in a tough spot
As the price of wheat, maize, edible oil and fuel surge in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, JSE-listed food producers and grocery retailers face a tough balancing act.
16 Mar Rethinking vegan cheese: making it liquid
The uber plant-based trend is giving rise to some very novel food science/tech innovation. For instance, shredded vegan cheese is notoriously difficult to melt, so this US vegan dairy company decided to rethink the entire product.
15 Mar How the Shoprite Group is reinventing itself for the future
The Group's latest financial results show that they have grown sales by 10% and profits by more than 25% - great insights here from the sublime innovation futurist, Jonathan Cherry, for anyone involved in FMCG foodbev retailing...
15 Mar South African bread set to get very expensive
Russia's invasion of Ukraine will make bread in South Africa a lot more expensive, but consumers will only start to feel the pinch three months from now, an economist has warned.
14 Mar Virgin Active-Kauai merger sets stage for turbo-charged lifestyle group
Fitness chain Virgin Active has merged with Kauai's parent company. The Real Foods Group, by acquiring its nutrition assets, namely Kauai and Nu Health Food Café, for £28.6m (R581m).
08 Mar Magnificent plastic: an ode to the world’s most useful of materials
This website loves contrarian views from the accepted wisdom of the day. Contrarian SA journalist, Ivo Vegter, several times winner of the SAAFoST Journalism Award, has penned this refreshing take on plastic, the first article of three on magnificent plastic's immense benefits and how we can better dispose of it.
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