With its vision to be first stop for processors and brand owners in the food and beverage manufacturing industry, SK Chemtrade is rightly celebrating a notable anniversary in a fiercely competitive arena.
The UK is in the grip of its largest ever outbreak of bird flu. As its name suggests, avian influenza primarily affects birds, but it can also infect humans and other mammals. The virus first emerged in China in 1996 and the highly pathogenic H5N1 is the predominant variant causing havoc at the moment.
With fibre one of the hottest food topics du jour, here's some interesting news out of Melbourne on a new approach to creating a fibre additive that's big on its pros and low on its cons....
Studies have been linking red meat consumption to health problems like heart disease, stroke, and cancer for years. But nestled in the recesses of those published papers are notable limitations, concludes new research.
Meat made from recycled carbon dioxide is on its way. But will it taste good? We reported on the launch of Air Protein in 2019 - here's an update....
Anthony Fletcher, the former head of snack brands Graze and Innocent smoothies, was looking for a new healthy-eating venture when he landed on an unlikely category: donuts.
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, the closely watched food price index of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reached its highest recorded level, stoking consumer prices across the world.
Kraft Heinz is a powerhouse of nearly 200 global brands, showing up in nearly 98% of American households, many of them with out-of-favour dollops of sugar. Here's news of some R&D work it's doing to solve this food science conundrum.
Here's some fascinating new findings on human food history.... new research shows now ubiquitous chickens were domesticated only relatively recently and were once revered.
As prices rise, everywhere, for pretty much everything, the prospect of the human suffering this will cause is deeply worrying. There are predictions that the number of people in the world experiencing acute hunger – currently 276 million – could soon rise by as many as 47 million.
Indra Nooyi served as CEO and chairman of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2019, and was a much-admired figure in the global foodbev industry. Here are some extracts from her new book....
Mars is collaborating with Perfect Day to make a milk chocolate bar featuring animal-free dairy proteins. The new bar, branded as CO2Coa, is available to order online.
Teams of US and Singaporean scientists have developed a biodegradable, biopolymer fibre-based coating that can be sprayed on foods, guarding against pathogenic and transportation damage.
The delusions of plant-based meat substitute strategies are being shredded by contact with reality, asserts Julian Mellentin, CEO of New Nutrition Business.
On 9 June 2022, Tiger Brands gave personnel producers and clients a 60-day consultation period notice to close down its factory in Ashton in the Western Cape.
‘What is hydrolysed gluten and is it safe for those who suffer from coeliac disease?’ To begin to answer this question, we need to understand what hydrolysed gluten is, and how we can measure the amount of hydrolysed gluten in a food product. Advice from FACTS SA...
The tsunami of new food products is reaching new and previously unimaginable heights, but they're not going to change our flawed food system, argues this writer.
Ridiculously, MSG is still widely believed to a no-no in food... here's a measured new article that outlines its history, safety and usefulness...
Royal DSM will merge with Swiss ingredients maker Firmenich to form the largest maker of flavours and fragrances, completing its transformation from chemicals company into one more focused on consumer goods.
US-based Pearlita Foods, a cell-based mollusk company, is poised to produce the world’s first “ocean-free” cultured oysters. This follows an investment by Canada's Cult Food Science, that also has interests in two SA alt-protein startups.