Amaro Foods, a baked goods company in the Libstar stable, has upped its game with the commissioning of a new par-bake facility within its factory in Epping, Cape Town, and the first of its kind in South Africa. This strategic development, says Libstar, is in...
SA's ostrich industry, centred on Oudtshoorn, has gone from boom to near bust over the past 17 years. The two biggest producers, Klein Karoo International and Mosstrich, are arguing that they need to be allowed to merge so that the industry can survive.
In a super-smart campaign that should appeal to kids of all ages, Kellogg’s in Australia has temporarily made the packaging for its most popular cereal varieties black and white, in a new partnership with Crayola, encouraging consumers to ‘colour and win’.
Something new is rolling out in FMCG packaging and soon you will scarcely remember when it didn’t exist. It’s called the Standcap Inverted Pouch.
While cultured meat/burger technology is still in its infancy, already bioengineers are taking on the next tougher challenge: growing structured cuts of meat like a steak or a chicken cutlet.
A study from the University of Minnesota has found that foods with similar nutritional characteristics can have very different effects on different people’s microbiome. So one person’s food really can be another person’s poison. The eminent Prof Tim Spector discusses this....
Unilever ice cream brand, Solero, has been launched in a wrapper-less multipack which uses 35% less plastic compared to the original pack.
Money, so they say, doesn’t grow on trees. But it might just grow on their roots, if a new breed of optimistic truffle farmer is right. Who would have guessed that truffle farming is now a thing in SA!
The search for something new, different, and exciting is leading flavour developments in food and beverage, supported by an ongoing interest in natural, clean label and healthier options, asserts Innova Market Insights.
Nestlé has claimed a breakthrough in the fight against plastic waste after finding a way to wrap a confectionery bar in recyclable paper, and the world’s largest food company has promised to share what it has described as “world-first” technology.
Danone has launched its DanPro brand locally, a high-protein yoghurt and drinking yoghurt range designed to fuel active lifestyles.
Pick n Pay has launched a ‘nude’ fruit and vegetable produce wall – a dedicated plastic and packaging-free zone in 13 stores across the country as part of a trial to measure customers’ readiness to switch from pre-packaged food to loose products.
The countdown has started: food & drink technology Africa, the trade fair for the food, beverage and packaging industries in southern Africa, will start in ten days time. The focus of the fourth edition of the event will be on sustainability and trends in food and beverage production.
WOW! is a punchy a new arrival on the SA peanut butter scene recently launched by Martizburg-based International Food Group (IFG).
Pioneer Foods is confident it has found the answer to bridging the gap between sugar and artificial sweeteners with Freesweet, developed by Durbanite, Deborah Good. Freesweet is due on retail shelves this month, reports Food & Beverage Reporter in its June 2019 issue.
Konica Minolta is creating amazing labels with copier (electrophotographic) technology you’d find hard to believe. Time to bring your label printing in-house?
Another team of prominent cardiologists have called for a rethink of the diet-heart hypothesis in a new BMJ paper, adding to mounting evidence that it is flawed and yet governments have allowed it to form the basis of most countries' low-fat dietary advice for decades.
While the traditional takeaway fast-food industry in SA is taking considerable strain as the economy languishes, a quiet revolution is taking place in an alternative, healthier “fast-casual” segment.
Briton Daniel Pawson had a successful career as a top-end chef working in three Michelin-starred restaurants. He's now turned a restaurant bugbear into a new snacking business.
You read that as craft beer, right? But we’re talking beef. Warning: Eating Wagyu beef will most likely ruin you for any other beef. Yes, it really is that good, and it lives up to all its hype.