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Color of 2021

24 Nov Red alert! GNT Group predicts 2021’s top food and beverage colour trend

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Red is set to shake up the food and beverage industry in 2021 thanks to its ability to spark powerful emotions, according to the GNT Group, supplier of EXBERRY food colourants.

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19 Nov Mars swallows all of Kind Snacks

Posted at 09:12h in Top International Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Three years after buying a minority stake in Kind Snacks – and launching Kind International – Mars has acquired the privately held bar and snacks company, a deal estimated to be worth $5-billion.

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17 Nov Reading around the web this week: Nov 16, 2020

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Your editor spends many hours every week researching dozens of local and global websites - those covering food, beverage, business, science, trends, innovation etc to bring you these items - articles that tweak her interest and relevance radar and ones, she hopes, that will tweak yours, too!

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Covid-19 vaccine

15 Nov Foodbev groups ask White House for priority on COVID-19 vaccines

Posted at 13:01h in Top International Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Less than a week after the vaccine news from Pfizer, the US food and beverage industry is not wasting any time asking to be on the priority list for whenever one is made available. 

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15 Nov 10 Key Trends in Food, Nutrition & Health 2021

Posted at 11:35h in Food Trends 2020, Food Trends 2021 by Brenda 0 Comments
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Authoritative London-based trends think-tank, New Nutrition Business, has released its annual Ten Key Trends report for 2021. Here are some trend insights from this brilliantly perceptive and practical document.

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13 Nov Upcycling pineapple waste into take out food packaging

Posted at 15:59h in Sustainability and Green Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Here's an interesting food waste upcycling story - the crafting of enviro-friendly, single-serve take-out food packaging via processing discarded pineapple crowns.

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Miguel Pereira obituary

12 Nov Symrise announces passing of Miguel Pereira

Posted at 17:51h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
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With sincere sadness, Symrise has announced the tragic passing of Miguel Pereira, commercial director Flavor at Symrise sub-Saharan Africa.

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AAK Illexao compound

12 Nov Delivering a premium chocolate experience with lower raw material costs

Posted at 15:34h in Food Science, Technology and Ingredients Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Now this is an apt solution for the African market! Swedish fats & oil company, AAK, has developed ILLEXAO, a range of fats suitable for making a ‘super compound’ that can seamlessly replace up to 100% of the free cocoa butter in a chocolate recipe.

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Euromonitor Health Webinar

09 Nov Health and nutrition trends: In search of a healthy life

Posted at 13:08h in Food Trends 2020 by Brenda 0 Comments
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Healthy living and wellbeing trends have been around for several years, but the definition of what health actually means has changed consumer priorities and needs, especially during the global pandemic. Enjoy this FREE Euromonitor on-demand webinar!

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Festive Season Shopper

08 Nov A festive season like no other: new shape of Christmas consumption

Posted at 21:41h in Food Trends 2020 by Brenda 0 Comments
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The global retail sector is in an unprecedented state of flux and as the end of the year approaches, Nielsen has identified a range of evolving consumer groups as well as four Holiday/Festive consumer behavioural resets related to this crucial holiday period.

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Nestle CEO Mark Schneider

08 Nov Refocusing the world’s largest food company on cleaner living

Posted at 17:46h in Top International Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider methodically puts health at the forefront of his consumption, and is doing the same for the giant food group he heads.

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Japanese sampuru

28 Oct Fake food in Japan: the world’s most delicious looking plastic

Posted at 12:46h in Weird, Whacky, Wonderful Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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If you have ever been to Japan, you might have seen plastic models of food in the windows of restaurants, displaying the edible counterparts that lie within. These are called ‘sampuru’ or ‘sample’ and have been part of the Japanese economy and food culture for nearly one hundred years.

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Chikaraka Egg Yoghurt

26 Oct A new spin on dairy-free yoghurt

Posted at 10:45h in Food Marketing Innovation and NPD by Brenda 0 Comments
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It seems intuitive for dairy-free yoghurt products to be plant-based, but here's an unusual new entrant into the category – eggs.

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Veggie burger

26 Oct Veggie burgers can be called burgers, European Parliament says

Posted at 08:50h in Top International Stuff, Uncategorized by Brenda 0 Comments
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The European Parliament voted last week on the divisive issue of labelling faux meat products with meat-like names. Farmer lobbyists argued no. Environmentalists said yes.

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Woolies lowers food prices

23 Oct Woolworths ‘invests’ R1bn in lowering food prices

Posted at 22:44h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
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Covid and lockdown have elicited much business rethink, with retail giant Woolworths announcing it's aiming for a bigger share of South Africa’s lucrative fresh food and grocery market, by committing “to invest R1 billion in its prices” over the next two-to-three years – 75% of which will go into lowering food prices.

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Marmite shortage

20 Oct Lockdown creates a shortage of Marmite

Posted at 15:38h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
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Lockdown has had all kinds of nasty unexpected consequences, one of them being short supplies of Marmite. This hangover of the alcohol ban during the first phases of lockdown is due to a dearth of concentrated yeast extract, a byproduct from brewing beer. 

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Propak Cape Webinar

16 Oct Packing a virtual punch in October with Propak

Posted at 12:43h in Latest Packaging News, Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
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The popular Propak Cape expo, supposedly due to be held this month, has had to be postponed to next year, but organisers, Specialised Exhibitions, is hosting a make-good webinar: 'Opportunities in Packaging in the New Normal’, taking place on Wednesday 21 October.

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16 Oct Lockdown’s hard impact on SA soft beverage categories

Posted at 08:26h in Drinkstuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Lockdown’s hard impact on SA soft beverage categories The bottled water, energy drinks and sparkling soft drinks categories are three distinctively different categories that have all suffered very different impacts as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown. Here are some interesting insights by Dr Dana Braithwaite,...

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S&N Labels

15 Oct Rotolabel S&N Labels rebrands to S&N Labels to grow market share

Posted at 09:29h in Latest Packaging News by Brenda 0 Comments
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Rotolabel S&N Labels, a major player in foodbev labelling, has announced has rebranded to S&N Labels from 1 October 2020 to focus on its core offering and to grow market share.

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Peevolution

15 Oct ‘Peevolution’: feeding the world with our liquid gold

Posted at 08:43h in Sustainability and Green Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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A French startup has developed a urine-powered super-fertiliser, far better, greener and cheaper than current options, part of a drive to figure out how humanity can better design its sanitary systems to recognise our urine for the amazing resource it is.

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