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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s value waiting to be recovered in many wastewater streams, including the water itself.
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.
UK scientists have made a breakthrough in technology to viably create valuable prebiotics from waste potato skins.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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).
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.
The return of live trade shows will provide a much-needed business impetus in the wake of the pandemic. The Propak Africa Expo makes a welcome return in March.
Snacking, and the role it has played in providing comfort and a sense of normalcy during the pandemic, has more recently emerged as a clear universal truth.
" No man qualifies as a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat." The words of the ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates.
Parents and pregnant women globally are exposed to aggressive marketing for baby formula milk, according to a report launched jointly by two UN agencies this week.
It's nearly time for the flavour & fragrance industries to gather for the 2022 annual SAAFFI seminar. This year the theme is “Virtual is a reality – are we pushing sensory boundaries?”