Food science is a vital science, playing a key role in a vast industry and the well-being of humanity, but it seems to be lumbered with 'wall-flower' tag when it comes to career choice. Here are six reasons, with an American but globally relevant perspective,...
Supermarket sales of courgettes and root vegetables are revving - thanks to a new trend that sees common vegetables transformed into a substitute for carb and gluten-addled staples, reports Euromonitor International analyst, Simone Baroke.
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We are designed to seek food – our drive to do so is essential to our survival and we have a complex system to control this. Recent research shows that following weight loss, levels of circulating hormones which affect our appetite tend to...
Every year London-based New Nutrition Business aims to entertain and inform its customers with its annual analysis of the key trends in the business of food, nutrition and health. Its long-term focus enables companies to formulate their plans, innovation and strategy around durable trends, not...
The US FDA has approved AquAdvantage Salmon as the first genetically modified food from animals, the agency announced November 19 in this statement. The decision comes after almost two decades of efforts to win approval for the salmon.
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The hearing against Professor Tim Noakes by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has been delayed again over procedural issues and will continue next year.
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Better-informed consumers are ditching the bowls of sugar that were once a triumph of 20th-century marketing.
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Woolworths today has announced the completion of the first phase of replacing sweets and chocolates with better snacking options at the checkout aisles of 104 stores.
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Chesa Nyama is one of South Africa’s fast growing fast food franchises, and now its owners, Gold Brands Investment, has announced that it will list on the JSE AltX, making it the only fast food retail company on the alternative exchange.
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Innova Market Insights has launched its Top Ten Trends to look out for in 2016. Lu Ann Williams, Director of Innovation, stresses that the focus this year remains on health. Eight out of the ten trends this year are related to health: “Health...
In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and increased security in the Paris area due to the COP21 UN Climate Change Summit there this week, over 30 food ingredients manufacturers have decided to pull out of Food Ingredients Europe, the world’s largest...
It’s an idea Willy Wonka’s evil twin might have dreamed up: Chocolate that’s healthy, calorie-free, and no fun at all. Behold, the chocolate pill.
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Shopping for online for shoes, furniture or electronics is easy, but when it comes to perishable food, the distribution and packaging issues take on new complexity. Now a Swedish start-up has devised a solution for this in the iFoodbag, a paper-based bag that will keep...
What do you do when you are left with half a chip in your hand after dipping? Admit it, you’ve wondered whether it’s OK to double dip the chip. Well is it?
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A US company has launched a new and economical way to sterilise flexible packaging and its contents - a viable alternative to the likes of hot-filling, retort processing, peroxide or peracetic baths and sprays, irradiation, pulsed light or electron-beam irradiation.
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Coinciding with World Fisheries Day on November 21, Woolworths has launched new ranges of responsibly farmed fish, marking another milestone in its Good Business Journey. The fish are the ASC-certified tilapia products.
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The professional conduct hearing into diet guru Tim Noakes continues, but it is already clear that the tussle is one of lawyer vs lawyer rather, than a debate of science. On Wednesday, Noakes’ legal team poked holes in the testimony of witnesses criticising Noakes’ nutritional...
To his admirers, he is a visionary health guru now made the victim of a witch-hunt. To his detractors, he is a once-solid sports scientist who has veered down the path of quackery by pushing his low carbohydrate, high fat Banting diet. This week, Professor...
The second day of scientist Tim Noakes’ professional misconduct hearing saw two witnesses give evidence against Noakes and his controversial Banting diet. But the professor is not taking it lying down: his legal team subjected Noakes’ complainant to a gruelling cross-examination, including the implication that...
Towards the end of the year, TIME does an annual round-up of the best inventions making the world better, smarter and - in some cases - a little more fun. Two are food related...