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The UK's Channel 4’s is running a programme called Food Unwrapped. The programme covers two topics of interest to those in the health and food industries; a close look at portion sizes and plate sizes.
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Bone broth is the latest darling of the health food world - but it's as old as cooking itself. It's stock, for heaven's sake!
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The healthiest foods of all are lacking innovation. Historically, the bulk of agricultural research in the US and elsewhere. has been focused on staple crops, with little help given to efforts to increase yield, shelf life, and convenience for things like leafy greens and squishy berries. Given that government guidelines suggest we should pig out on such produce to stay healthy, perhaps it's time to dangle a larger carrot in front of vegetable innovators?
The spread of exotic grains is evidence that globalisation works — the symptom of a happy trend, and not something to be feared, rebutted or destroyed as much populist thinking today would have it. A great thought leader article from The Economist...
With excess carbs in the Western diet increasingly under scrutiny, leading bakery ingredients supplier Anchor Yeast has gone on the PR offensive to illustrate that SA bread offers great nutritional and price value in every slice.
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Americans of a certain social class love nothing more than an “authentic” food experience. And who could be against wanting a more authentic, genuine food experience? So glad you asked. In fact, authenticity is an illusion, and a highly overrated one. [A must-read essay. Ed]
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US biotech firm, Senomyx has identified a new zero-calorie, high-potency sweetening compound found in trace levels in monk fruit, which it plans to produce on a commercial scale via fermentation.
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The future of food doesn't have to involve animals...
By using radio frequency technology, it can prepare all the components of a dinner, at the same time, just right.
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Here are some food safety tips from an engineer, one with years and years of experience in the trenches of food companies. Good advice from Pieter de Waal, a contributor to FoodFocus.co.za, SA's new go-to website for all issues around compliance.
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Trade visitors to FRUIT LOGISTICA expo in Berlin in February voted this year's Innovation Award to Dutch technology that delays pinking in fresh cut lettuce.
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The famous French bakery-bistro has opened its first South African doors in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg...
If you had been a canny investor back in 2008, you could have done a lot worse than make a substantial bet on upmarket ice cream futures. The price of vanilla beans has rocketed from as...
Checkers, part of the country’s largest supermarket group Shoprite Holdings, has mounted an onslaught on Woolworths’ lead in the convenience food market. Its mission is deceptively simple: “Match the taste and quality of the market leader at better value”.
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A new study has found that compounds found in jackfruit seeds produce many of the same aromas as processed cocoa beans and are a potentially cheap, abundant substitute for use in chocolate manufacturing.
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When the history of sugar is written, 2016 may go down as the year its image turned, when it became 'the new tobacco' in the public mindset. And this is a huge problem for Big Food. It's built on the stuff, and finding acceptable alternatives...
Japan is obsessed with mayonnaise — well, its version of mayonnaise, anyway, a brand called Kewpie. Why?
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When PepsiCo, the world’s second-biggest food and beverage company, bought small fermented drinks maker KeVita in late 2016, it sent a clear sign that fermented foods have reached a tipping point.
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Organic vegetables are much higher in carcinogens than are vegetables grown sprayed with pesticides, asserts Richard Muller, Prof Physics, UC Berkeley in the US, author "Now - The Physics of...
One of the world's most regarded heart disease experts, cardiologist Dr Salim Yusuf, President of the World Heart Federation, recently delivered a talk at a Zurich cardiology conference outlining how his research finds fat is not harmful, even beneficial, while the high carb diet recommended...