From direct-to-consumer e-commerce to upcycled food or functional ingredients for holistic wellbeing, here's how food and drink manufacturers can leverage some of 2022’s top consumer trends into their portfolios.
It's not easy for dairy producers in SA! This article outlines how unfair it is to expect the local dairy sector to compete against products from the EU, the UK and Eastern Europe who enjoy the largesse of government subsidies.
Product developers can now create new categories of functional foods and beverages thanks to new tech developed by Israeli company, Prodalim Resources.
Pioneer Foods/PepsiCo recently announced it was shafting two iconic SA pantry staples, fish paste brands Peck's Anchovette and Redro. But is it all just a cunning marketing ruse?
The R&D teams at Synercore continue to explore new ingredients, products and innovations - their latest commercial launch is Blom Bake, a range of high quality and easy-to-use bakery premixes.
Consumers have become all too familiar with product recalls in recent months issued by some of South Africa’s best-loved food brands. The health and repuational fallout aside, these incidents highlight typical failings in quality control.
Global FMCG giant Unilever will lay off about 1,500 managers around the world and restructure its business around five distinct groups, a model that will simplify the company's structure so it can be more directly responsive to consumer trends and create more clear accountability for delivery.
Good news for those who chronically capitulate to sugar seduction! Israeli start-up, Sweet Victory, has created a delicious line of botanical-infused chewing gum that is designed to stop sugar cravings in their tracks.
Peck's Anchovette – and local brand Redro – are disappearing from South African shelves, and won’t be restocked anytime soon. What! Why?
S2G Ventures, a leading multi-stage investment firm focused on the food, agriculture, ocean and seafood markets, has unveiled ten Food and AgTech trends that will shape the future of food in 2022.
Demand for seafood continues to rise, marking yet another shift in people's global diet preferences for protein; the previous one being the shift from beef to chicken. Some trends insights from Luis Figueiredo, the CEO of Atlantis Foods Group and founder of Atlantis Seafood Products, South Africa's third-largest fresh and frozen seafood processing and packing factory.
Food development in 2022 will have fewer animals, but more plants as well as a wide-ranging 'mindfulness' about food. Insights with an American slant…
While many farmers generally welcome rain, it has cost South Africa's tomato industry at close to R100-million during December alone.
Ultimate Sports Nutrition (USN), one of the fastest growing sports nutrition brands globally, has a new investment partner and shareholder.
If you ate too much over the festive season, you may well be thinking about the best diet plan for 2022. But as anyone who has ever dieted knows, there are countless options out there. Right now, we’re in the midst of a revolutionary time for understanding the human body, and so the question arises: can new science tell us which diet plan is best for losing weight?
Everything was about shortages in 2021. COVID vaccine shortages at the start of the year were replaced by fears that we would struggle to buy turkeys, toys or electronic gizmos to put under the Christmas tree. Some shortages were resolved quickly, others linger.
As we enter the new year and the world begins year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, we find ourselves in a decade that proves the adage, “The only constant is change.” The food system is hardly immune to turmoil. Insights from IFIC....
Eastern Cape producer, Grandisync, says its Howe Noodles were not linked to the deaths of children, and that both an upcoming report and its own lab tests clear it of involvement.
Ahh, summer at the beach! The sun on your face, sand between your toes, an ice cream in your hand. For scientists young and old, a trip to the beach is also a perfect opportunity to explore the peculiar properties of some fascinating fluids.
They see a new interest in mushrooms, a rethinking of chicken and coffee, a resurgence of 1980s cocktails, and interesting mash-up flavours. Some insights into trending foodbev trends 2022, courtesy of the New York Times.