Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo
  • Newsy Stuff
    • Latest SA News
    • Now on DRINKStuff SA!
    • New SA Product Launches
    • Top International Stuff
    • Food Marketing, Innovation and NPD
    • Food Science, Technology and Ingredients Stuff
    • Health and Nutrition Stuff
    • Food Labelling Regulations
    • Latest Packaging News
    • Weird, Whacky, Wonderful Stuff
    • Funny & Irreverent Stuff
  • Hot Stuff
    • Ultra Processed Foods (UPFs)
    • Sustainability and Disruption
    • Bad Carbs – Good Fat
    • GMOs
    • War on Sugar
  • Food Trends
    • Food Trends 2025
    • Food Trends 2024
    • Food Trends 2023
    • Food Trends 2022
    • Food Trends 2021
  • Food Industry Recruitment
    • Latest job openings with Par Excellance
    • Latest job openings with PCS
    • Jobs Offered Directly
  • Newsy Stuff
    • Latest SA News
    • Now on DRINKStuff SA!
    • New SA Product Launches
    • Top International Stuff
    • Food Marketing, Innovation and NPD
    • Food Science, Technology and Ingredients Stuff
    • Health and Nutrition Stuff
    • Food Labelling Regulations
    • Latest Packaging News
    • Weird, Whacky, Wonderful Stuff
    • Funny & Irreverent Stuff
  • Hot Stuff
    • Ultra Processed Foods (UPFs)
    • Sustainability and Disruption
    • Bad Carbs – Good Fat
    • GMOs
    • War on Sugar
  • Food Trends
    • Food Trends 2025
    • Food Trends 2024
    • Food Trends 2023
    • Food Trends 2022
    • Food Trends 2021
  • Food Industry Recruitment
    • Latest job openings with Par Excellance
    • Latest job openings with PCS
    • Jobs Offered Directly

10 Jul Libstar launches world-class par-bake facility

Posted at 18:35h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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...

Read More

10 Jul Ostrich majors fight for merger

Posted at 14:38h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

10 Jul Kellogg’s launches black and white packaging in partnership with Crayola

Posted at 12:52h in Food Marketing Innovation and NPD by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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’.

Read More

10 Jul Is this a packaging revolution?

Posted at 11:51h in Latest Packaging News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

10 Jul Cultured meat’s next big challenge: animal-free steaks

Posted at 10:01h in Food Science, Technology and Ingredients Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

05 Jul You are what you eat – why the future of nutrition is personal

Posted at 15:33h in Health and Nutrition Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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....

Read More

05 Jul UK: Unilever trials ‘first ever’ wrapper-less ice cream multipack

Posted at 15:09h in Latest Packaging News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

Unilever ice cream brand, Solero, has been launched in a wrapper-less multipack which uses 35% less plastic compared to the original pack.

Read More

05 Jul Black gold: truffle farming in SA

Posted at 13:13h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
1 Like
Share

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!

Read More

05 Jul Flavour trends: on a ‘Discovery Mission’

Posted at 12:31h in Food Trends 2019 by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

03 Jul Nestlé launches paper packaging for snack bars

Posted at 18:10h in Latest Packaging News, Top International Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

03 Jul Danone brings protein-powered yoghurt to SA

Posted at 12:35h in Dairy, Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
6 Likes
Share

Danone has launched its DanPro brand locally, a high-protein yoghurt and drinking yoghurt range designed to fuel active lifestyles.

Read More

02 Jul Pick n Pay starts ‘nude’ fruit ‘n veg trial

Posted at 10:40h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

27 Jun Getting set for fdt Africa 2019 expo

Posted at 18:36h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

27 Jun New peanut butter wants to claw into SA’s R1bn market

Posted at 14:31h in Condiments and Sauces, Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

WOW! is a punchy a new arrival on the SA peanut butter scene recently launched by Martizburg-based International Food Group (IFG).

Read More

27 Jun Pioneer Foods in JV launch of new sweetener

Posted at 13:49h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

27 Jun New opp to take foodbev labelling in-house

Posted at 12:39h in Latest Packaging News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

Konica Minolta is creating amazing labels with copier (electrophotographic) technology you’d find hard to believe. Time to bring your label printing in-house?

Read More

27 Jun Fat or fiction: the diet-heart hypothesis

Posted at 11:49h in Health and Nutrition Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

27 Jun Healthy fare bucks the declining fast-food trend

Posted at 08:15h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

26 Jun Turning wasted salmon skin into high-protein chips

Posted at 17:47h in Food Marketing Innovation and NPD by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More

26 Jun Craft beef is coming to a grill near you

Posted at 15:58h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
0 Likes
Share

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.

Read More
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130
  • 131
  • 132
  • 133
  • 134
  • 135
  • 136
  • 137
  • 138
  • 139
  • 140
  • 141
  • 142
  • 143
  • 144
  • 145
  • Advertise
  • About
  • Contact
  • Newsletters

Web Design Company Cape TownWeb Design Cape Town

Subscribe to our FREE fortnightly Newsletter!

 

Join over 9,000 other food-bev industrialists who value this service.

We hunt down the latest SA & global FMCG food-bev news & trends so you don't have to!

Invalid email address
We promise not to spam you. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Thanks for subscribing!