Sauce manufacturer, Afoodable, a division of Lake Foods, has officially opened a new plant in the food production hub of Montague Gardens, Cape Town. This state-of-the art facility will enhance Afoodable's ability to tailor-make solutions for its customers in the sauces and marinade sectors.
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Why does MSG still have the ability to strike fear into the hearts of otherwise rational people? This article puts to bed the myth of terror around monosodium glutamate.
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Prof Tim Noakes must wait until November to defend his case on a unprofessional conduct charge, after advising a mother via Twitter to wean her child on low-carbohydrate, high-fat foods.
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Polyoak Packaging has launched a striking new website that highlights the group as a true 'one-stop packaging shop' for rigid plastic packaging for dairy, beverage, food and industrial applications.
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The Irish economist, Cormac Ó Gráda, has written a rarity: a coolly rational, cautiously cheerful book about the most viscerally upsetting subject imaginable, mass death from hunger. It looks at the political economy of mass starvation, and why it is largely a thing of...
America's yogurt aisle is getting fat. Leading brands and fast-growing niche players are coming out with new varieties of yogurt made with whole milk.
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Coca-Cola is a lot more useful than the world's most popular refreshing drink: the carbonated candy can be used for a lot more than just drinking. Here are 12 things you didn’t know you could do with Coke.
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Hundreds of SA food and beverage industrialists are expected to gather in Durban in early spring for SAAFoST's biennial congress and expo.
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More proof that fat is back in a big way in the US is the launch by Stonyfield, the nation's leading organic yogurt maker, of an exciting new range dubbed "Oh My Yog!".
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The US arm of international food giant Nestlé has become the latest food manufacturer in the US to announce the reformulation of many of its products to reflect increasing consumer pressure for clean label products and reduced salt.
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Although many Western retailers already display the tenderness of meat cuts on their packaging, Norwegian research group SINTEF has developed what it believes is a better system.
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For years, the US federal government has advised Americans that they are eating too much salt, and that this excess contributes yearly to the deaths of tens of thousands of people. But unknown to many shoppers urged to buy foods that are “low sodium” and...
Earlier this year, headlines around the world trumpeted an exciting bit of news that seemed too good to be true: "Eating chocolate ...
The WorldStar Competition is one of the pre-eminent international awards in packaging. Organised by the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) to advance packaging design and technology, the 2015 awards were recently handed over at the IPACK-IMA expo in Milan, Italy.
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South Africa has been a trailblazer on the continent in the global battle to reduce salt intake through food. But three years after the bold food policy was first introduced in South Africa – and less than a year until it finally becomes law –...
Major packaged-food companies lost $4-billion in market share alone last year, as shoppers swerved to fresh and organic alternatives. Can the supermarket giants win them back? Fortune magazine spent months getting inside several of the US food industry’s key corporations to understand how they’re...
This week (4-5 June), Prof Tim Noakes will face the Health Professions Council, to answer a charge laid by the head of the Association for Dietetics of SA (ADSA) of unprofessional conduct, the worst misdemeanour a doctor can face, over an innocuous Tweet. This perverse...
Lisa Ronquest is one of South Africa's top young food scientists. After leading the Mars Africa R&D team for seven years in Cape Town, she's now ensconced in The Netherlands in a new global food R&D role for the multinational. Keen to to share her...
If asked to name current diet trends, most could rattle off any number of no/low/free-from diets currently circulating American culture – no processed sugars, low-carb, dairy free, all protein, Paleo, raw, flexitarian. The list goes on. One of the latest nutrition fads has evolved out...
News from FACTS (Food & Allergy Consulting & Testing Services), SA's leading allergen consultancy, is that a Cape Town allergy clinic has reported five recent anaphylactic (life-threatening allergic) reactions to lupin. These individuals did not know that they had an allergy to this legume; they...