04 Apr The hidden liver crisis
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease now affects up to a third of Americans, taking a toll on the nation's collective health. Nutrition and lifestyle changes can turn it around.
04 Apr SA reaps the rewards of global avocado binge
Rising global demand for avocados is spurring expansion of the crop in South Africa, which exports about two-thirds of its average annual production of 90,000 tons.
04 Apr Are FODMAP foods the next gluten-free?
Pundits are predicting that 2018 will be a growth year for FODMAPS, which has been bubbling under since its debut in Australia as a treatment for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The acronym comes from Fermentable Oligo-Di, Mono-saccharides and Polyols, which are types of short-chain carbohydrates found in a variety of foods, including onions, garlic, wheat and apples.
04 Apr Unilever takes first steps to a carbon-free, clean-cold fleet
Unilever has partnered with a pioneering British business to trial new technology which cuts carbon emissions from refrigerated trucks to zero. Now its hoping to scale it up.
04 Apr World’s largest macadamia factory opened in White River
Following the massive boom in the South African and global macadamia industry, SA is now the largest producer of macadamia nuts in the world and home to the largest processing factory.
27 Mar Nestlé’s Milkybar world first reduces sugar by 30%
Nestlé today has unveiled Milkybar Wowsomes in the UK and Ireland, the first chocolate using Nestlé’s new structured sugar to reduce sugar by 30% versus comparable bars.
23 Mar SA’s Dairy Product of 2018!
945 dairy products from 83 producers vied for the attention of 84 judges at the 2018 SA Dairy Championships. Only 18 were honoured with the Qualité mark of excellence and 105 were named SA Champion. Among them was the "Dairy Product of the Year..."
21 Mar New marketing landscape: tackling your disruptors head on
In February, upmarket Canadian meat purveyor, Greenfield Natural Meat Co, kicked off a Meatless Monday campaign. A butcher encouraging customers to forgo meat on Mondays? What's going on here? The UK market research consultancy, TrendWatching, offers these perspectives....
21 Mar Cargill starts production of optimised stevia extract
Cargill has officially started producing EverSweet, a zero-calorie, next-generation sweetener made with two of the best-tasting sweet compounds found in the stevia leaf, Reb M and Reb D, via a fermentation process.
20 Mar Listeriosis outbreak could cost Tiger Brands R800m
In addition to the cost of closing factories, including its Pretoria plant now, and recalling products, the food producer also faces class-action lawsuits...
20 Mar Eight food trends for 2018
Euromonitor International has released the eight most influential packaged food megatrends for 2018. These megatrends, sharing common drivers, have the power to transform and disrupt entire categories while also providing sustainable growth and relevance for companies that succeed in these new ideas.
19 Mar Forget Amazon and the internet — consumers are the real disruptors in the food sector
Behind the buzz words and hype, it easy to miss the fact that consumers are the real disruptors right now. They have shaken off their “automatic” post-World War II grocery shopping behaviour, and are using their own values to redefine modern food production.
19 Mar Fake processed food is becoming an epidemic in African urban life
According to the US’s Grocery Manufacturers Association, food fraud affects approximately 10 percent of all commercially sold food products and costs the global food industry between $10 and $15bn annually. Data focused on the African continent is not as readily available, but what exists is alarming.
18 Mar The future of bread
BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme, which aims to investigate on a consumer level everything about the food we eat, is currently running a series of interviews on an extraordinary bread research project led by a techno-food wizard, Nathan Myrhvold.
16 Mar World Food Innovation Awards 2018 – all finalists and winners
FoodBev Media in the UK hosts three annual international innovation awards for food, dairy and beverages. The World Food Innovation Awards 2018 were announced at a ceremony at Hotelympia in London recently. Here is a feast of interesting innovation [video]!
16 Mar Today’s listeriosis news wrap: The problem with Tiger Brands, RCL cleared, more deaths feared
How is it that the food company’s rivals, like AVI, don’t seem to always find themselves in the dock for apparently breaking the rules, asks Business Day editor, Rob Rose, in this scathing editorial?
15 Mar Unilever picks Rotterdam as sole HQ but denies Brexit link
Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant, has picked Rotterdam over London as its sole headquarters but denied the move was related to the Brexit vote.
15 Mar Three major mistakes Tiger Brands made in response to the listeriosis crisis
Tiger Brands, the South African food giant at the centre of the listeriosis storm engulfing the country, is facing serious brand erosion as a result of the way it handled the unfolding crisis.
15 Mar AVI set to launch low-sugar biscuits
Consumer brands company, AVI, has plans to include healthier, low-to-no sugar biscuit products under its food portfolio in light of the sugar tax rates and in accordance with consumer lifestyle changes.