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Starbucks in South Africa has pulled out the stops in an against-the-odds 2020 investment drive and is opening eight new stores in four weeks, from mid-November to mid-December – in Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Johannesburg and Pretoria.
FUTURELIFE, SA's well-known functional food brand, has revamped its FUTURELIFE BRAN FLAKES with HOWARU Premium Probiotics, by changing the latter's delivery of from powder sachets to capsules.
Nestlé recently made its first move into plant-based seafood with Sensational Vuna – a six-ingredient vegan alternative to tuna.
Here's an interesting ingredient innovation using upcycled food waste.... Dutch company DEPP has produced an egg membrane powder for the food and supplement industries that they claim is proven in alleviating joint stiffness and pain.
South African company, De Villiers Chocolate, has released a range of no-added sugar bars made with nut butter, something its owner and his customers are smiling about.
Transparency emerges as a clear winner in Innova Market Insights’ Top Ten Trends for 2021, with brands upping their game to meet evolving ethical, environmental and clean label consumer demands.
Firmenich, the world's largest privately-owned flavour company, has announced the creation of "the first ever flavour by Artificial Intelligence (AI)", a lightly grilled beef taste for use in plant-based meat alternatives.
The Fry Family Food Co have joined the global quest to emulate or better the regular plant-based burger with the launch of The Big Fry Burger.
There are four big food and drink trends likely to explode next year — spurred on by the pandemic — which seem unlikely candidates at first glance, but they offer reliable, practical market solutions to an industry which has suffered under Covid-19 and is ready for a little disruption.
These insights are from a new Nielsen report 'The Covid-19 Behavioural Reset', which delves into how shoppers are redesigning their product choices. It predicts that many pandemic consumption patterns are set to become entrenched essential routines.
Since 2009, the global growth of the snack food industry has consistently outpaced the rest of packaged food categories. Will this performance persist after the pandemic?
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to the two scientists who discovered and refined the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tool. One of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the last decade, CRISPR allows for relatively simple editing of genes and could revolutionise medicine, agriculture and other fields.
The ban on supplying plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds has come into force in England with effect from 1 October 2020.
SAAFoST is hosting a webinar titled "The legal standing and consequences of disobeying legal standards, regulations and labelling issues" on 29 October, to be hosted by patent attorney and professional engineer Janusz Luterek.
While we might not be able to solve that age-old conundrum as to which came first, the chicken or the egg, we do know that in terms of recognised and celebrated food days, World Egg Day - which this year takes place on Friday, October 9 - follows World Chicken Day by a mere 24 hours.
W-Cycle, an Israeli foodTech startup, has developed SupraPulp, made from upcycled sugarcane bagasse. Unlike other compostable food packaging. it’s non-coated, omniphobic, can be frozen/heated and remains completely unaffected by liquids and oils.
Almost a third of the $1.5-billion that has been invested in alternative proteins so far this year has gone toward companies using fermentation, according to a new report from the Good Food Institute. A total of $435-million has been invested in fermentation, the report says.
Authenticity is a key part of the storytelling process in food and beverage development - 27% of those who want to know the stories behind their food and drink say the story makes a product more real and genuine.
Caulipower's success is a fascinating story; an innovative company built out of a working mother's need for a convenient and healthy gluten-free option, and one that keeps growing by looking for products it can improve. Its founder has some fervid ideas on what constitutes good/poor NPD.
Inspired by the secret to the Nile Delta’s fertility, engineers are using a concoction of clay, water and local soils to grow fruits in the desert.