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Eat Sum Mor Chocolate

30 Oct New variant to long-time favourite SA biscuit brand

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Eet-Sum-Mor, the beloved shortbread biscuit brand in the BAKERS stable, is now available in a new variant: Chocolate Chip.

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Lard

30 Oct US: Animal fat bounces back

Posted at 15:34h in Food Trends 2016 by Brenda 0 Comments
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Consumption of animal fats is on the rise in the US, and the trend is led by millennials, according to a new survey from Coast Packing Company and Ipsos Research.

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Chilled tomatoes

26 Oct Understanding why refrigeration is uncool for tomatoes

Posted at 11:23h in Food Science, Technology and Ingredients Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Most foodies warn against storing tomatoes in the fridge, saying it saps them of their flavour. New research confirms this culinary opinion.

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Dunkin Donuts

15 Oct Dunkin’ Donuts bets on SA’s sweet tooth

Posted at 11:58h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
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Rising demand for quality coffees and sweet treats has lured yet another American favourite to SA’s shores.

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Beyond Meat burger

12 Oct US meat leader invests in a plant protein-based company

Posted at 09:21h in Top International Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Tyson Foods appears to be the first big meat company to invest in a business that, among other things, aims to reduce consumption of chicken, beef and pork by replacing it with plant proteins.

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Blue MM

11 Oct Brand new hue: the quest to create a blue M&M

Posted at 15:50h in Food Science, Technology and Ingredients Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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In response to growing consumer pressure, Mars announced in February that over the next five years it would replace artificial colours from all its processed human foods with pigments found in natural substances. Here's the story behind this incredibly challenging task...

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Kernza

10 Oct This new perennial wheat is an ecologist’s dream

Posted at 14:17h in Sustainability and Green Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Introducing Kernza, a new breed of wheat. Could this little seed help save the planet?

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Food Pyramid

10 Oct How the USDA screwed up the American diet — and deprived me of so much delicious butter

Posted at 14:10h in LCHF eating by Brenda 0 Comments
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Despite all the healthy-eating advice the US of A has been doling out since the 1960s, Americans aren’t living longer. We’re actually dying sooner. We’re immensely fatter. We’ve got diabetes in droves, high blood pressure in heaps, Himalayas of cholesterol. Maybe we should return...

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Denny Burger

10 Oct DENNY Mushroom moves into the burger space

Posted at 13:09h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
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DENNY, SA’s number one producer and supplier of fresh mushrooms has just launched the country’s first mushroom burger. (Nicest bit of really innovative NPD this editor has seen in a long while! Ed)

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Eating insects

10 Oct It’s not just the ‘yuck factor’ that puts people off eating insects

Posted at 11:01h in Food Trends 2016 by Brenda 0 Comments
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There’s a lot of hype around edible insects. Insects are being championed as a healthy and sustainable alternative to conventional protein sources in Europe and the US, and “ento-prising” new products are appearing almost every week. Cricket-based cocktail bitters, anyone?

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Microbiome

10 Oct If there was a Nobel silver medal, I’d award it to Jeffrey Gordon and our gut microbes

Posted at 10:48h in Health and Nutrition Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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A hot tip for this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was Jeffrey Gordon (the prize went to Yoshinori Ohsumi). Over the past 15 years, Gordon has progressed an obscure study of boring gut microbes to being a nearly daily topic in the...

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Ready Meal

07 Oct Famous Brands’ savvy move into the ready meal market

Posted at 10:26h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
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Supermarket ready meals had better watch their backs. Famous Brands, owner of eateries such as Turn ’n Tender and Wimpy, broke with tradition and bought a stake in caterer By Word of Mouth. It would seem an odd fit at first, but it really isn’t.

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Blue Apron

07 Oct The dangers that lurk when food companies are also tech startups

Posted at 10:22h in Food Marketing Innovation and NPD by Brenda 0 Comments
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California's Silicon Valley has developed a special affinity for all things food: meal kits, plant-based burgers, new-fangled food delivery services. But the growth demands on the typical tech startup don’t necessarily square with the needs of food-based companies.

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Bye Word of Mouth

06 Oct Famous Brands enters commercial catering arena

Posted at 08:37h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
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Famous Brands has made its first foray into the food service leisure sector, acquiring a 49.9% stake in the award-winning commercial catering company, By Word of Mouth.

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Overweight

06 Oct The role of supermarkets in SA’s obesity

Posted at 08:30h in Health and Nutrition Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Obesity in South Africa has hit epidemic proportions. But while the science is clear about the extent of our expanding waist lines, it is not as easy to quantify the why. HEALTH-E NEWS investigates...

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Pakco

06 Oct Rhodes Food Group to acquire Pakco

Posted at 08:20h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
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Rhodes Food Group's buying spree continues - it has now acquired instant food maker Pakco, whose brands include Bisto gravy and Trotters jelly, in exchange for shares valued at R200m.

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Cadbury Lunch Bar

30 Sep The best-selling chocolates in South Africa

Posted at 07:57h in Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments
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Three confectionery companies – namely Cadbury owner Mondelēz, Nestlé, and Beacon owner, Tiger Brands – account for nearly three quarters of the market in South Africa.

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All natural label

29 Sep US FDA’s mission impossible: In search of consensus on ‘natural’ and ‘healthy’ labels

Posted at 13:21h in Top International Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Unlike South Africa where the terms are simply outlawed in food labelling, the US FDA is on a mission to define the two terms, "healthy" or "natural", which companies routinely print on food-drinks packaging in hopes they will entice sales.

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Garlic breath

29 Sep Got garlic breath? Here are the best deodorising foods

Posted at 11:23h in Weird, Whacky, Wonderful Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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Benecol

29 Sep Plant sterols lower cholesterol, but increase risk for CHD

Posted at 07:35h in Health and Nutrition Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments
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It is widely accepted that cholesterol lowering is healthful per se. Research by well known UK obesity scientist, Zoë Harcombe, and Julien S Baker challenges this view, with particular reference to plant sterols that over the past decade or so that have been lauded as...

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