24 Oct A better PET recycling solution for Woolies
Woolworths has advanced its sustainability goals by ensuring that the label and adhesive from its PET packaging are cleanly removed during recycling - a solution supplied by Rotolabel.
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24 Oct Missing Marmite? The end of the dearth is in sight
Something every Marmite lover has been painfully aware of is that there has been a shortage of it, on and off, since 2020. The reason is quite simple: lockdown alcohol bans.
24 Oct Whole Foods Market and its outsized influence on food culture
A Hartman Group podcast discusses how co-founder John Mackey’s retirement from Whole Foods Market is a good reminder to recount the chain’s outsized influence on trends ranging from clean product standards to organics, GMOs and animal and employee welfare.
24 Oct Perfect Day dairy fermentation company wins premium innovation award
FOODStuff SA has featured the fascinating dairy-without-cows story of Perfect Day in the past but now comes news that it is a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards.
23 Oct Whole Foods lists its 2022 foodbev trends
Whole Foods Market - the premium US food retailer - has issued its annual list of 10 foodbev trends for the coming year, with an emphasis on functionality, sustainability and abetting general well-being.
20 Oct 2021 Future Insight Prize: Turning plastic into protein
Ting Lu and Stephen Techtmann, winners of the 2021 Future Insight Prize, are developing a process that turns plastic into protein powder, which they believe could help address the mounting global eco-plastic crisis.
16 Oct BioLumen reinvents caloric elimination as health-abetting, non-dieting option
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US start-up BioLumen has reingeered cellulose, creating a super-absorbing fat-sugar 'pill' and ingredient that will the lower caloric load of processed foods while boosting metabolic health.
15 Oct The story of Spur, founded 54 years ago with R4000 and a taste for life
Spur was founded in 1967 when Allen Ambor invested R4000 into opening the Golden Spur in Newlands, Cape Town. It sparked the rise of South Africa’s most popular steakhouse franchise. Today you’ll find a Spur in 15 countries and every town and mall in South Africa.
15 Oct Precision fermentation is producing ‘next-generation’ protein sweeteners
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Precision fermentation promises to make protein sweeteners, such as brazzein, miraculin and thaumatin, cheap and plentiful, offering food brands new ways to reduce sugar in food and drink.
14 Oct “Shared Planet” leads Innova’s Top Ten Trends for 2022
“Shared Planet” leads Innova Market Insights’ Top Ten Trends for 2022, focusing on how everyone can play their part in shaping a sustainable and prosperous future.
14 Oct Anuga 2021: the top innovations at world’s biggest food fair
Remarkably for the times, the international food and drinks industry once again met up at Anuga in Cologne, in person and virtually, from 9 - 13 October 2021. Here are the top innovations from the expo.
13 Oct Woolies launches first-to-market seafood sausages
Some great innovation, again, from Woolworths - a new fishy sausage range with three unique variants; hake sausage, trout sausage and haddock cheese sausage.
13 Oct New luxury ice cream range from Dairymaid
Mega global ice cream company, Froneri, has announced the SA launch of Dairymaid Gelata Roma, a delectable ice cream range that "promises to transform any special occasion into everyday luxury experience".
05 Oct Eskort launches new Braai Bacon
Stalwart SA bacon brand, Eskort, has upped its marketing game recently - and its latest moves include a brand-new bacon offering and a packaging revamp.
29 Sep Why global food prices are higher today than for most of modern history
The last time global food prices were this high, the world was reeling from the 1973 oil crisis. It might seem unsurprising that food prices, when adjusted for inflation, are reaching similar heights today, as Europe and other regions suffer an energy price crunch. But longer-term signals suggest something bigger is happening...
29 Sep New guide to food labelling in South Africa
Food safety consultancy, Entecom, has a super-useful library of FREE e-books to guide food industrialists through a multiplicity of issues - its latest covers food labelling in South Africa.
27 Sep Israeli-grown “dramatically better” vanilla is about to disrupt the industry
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Vanilla is a paradox. One of the world’s most popular flavours is among the least studied. And that’s why Israeli startup Vanilla Vida is using agri-technology the take vanilla into the 21st century and disrupt a fraught and fragile supply chain.
27 Sep UK storm: of Brexit, a food crisis, as well as gas and CO2 shortages…
There is somewhat of a crisis currently unfolding in the UK. Food shortages, an energy crisis, a lack of CO2 gas and record level inflation. It’s a many-headed beast that goes back to January 2020, culminating into the worst UK food shortages since the 1970s.
26 Sep Children’s dislike of cauliflower, broccoli could be written in their microbiome
Children might dislike Brassica vegetables, such as cauliflower and broccoli, because of volatile sulfur compounds produced in their saliva.
26 Sep Food pathogen quick detection startup wins IFT competition
Seemingly offering a compelling solution to some of food safety's biggest costs and challenges, SnapDNA was named the winner of the Food Disruption Challenge Pitch Competition at the Institute of Food Technologists’ FIRST virtual conference on July 21.
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