02 Nov Sushi fan? Chances are you’ve never eaten wasabi!
There's a good chance you've never eaten actual wasabi at all - even if you're a sushi addict.
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There's a good chance you've never eaten actual wasabi at all - even if you're a sushi addict.
...Grabbing many headlines around the world today: Eating an egg for breakfast could cut the risk of suffering a stroke, according to a new study.
...Every year, Popular Science honours 100 innovations that are brilliant, revolutionary, and bound to shape the future - and here's one on the list that relates to a key industry trend/concern.
...Butter is great, chocolate is amazing – put the two together and you have every chocoholic’s dream come true.
...The SA food-drinks industries' most significant event of 2017: the 22nd SAAFoST Biennial International Congress and Exhibition, will be taking place next September in Cape Town.
...Rhodes Food Group is buying KwaZulu-Natal based producer Ma Baker for R212-million as it seeks to strengthen its position in SA’s growing pie and pastry market.
...Most foodies warn against storing tomatoes in the fridge, saying it saps them of their flavour. New research confirms this culinary opinion.
...Rising demand for quality coffees and sweet treats has lured yet another American favourite to SA’s shores.
...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.
...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...
Introducing Kernza, a new breed of wheat. Could this little seed help save the planet?
...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)
...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...
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.
...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.
...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.
...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...
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.
...Three confectionery companies – namely Cadbury owner Mondelēz, Nestlé, and Beacon owner, Tiger Brands – account for nearly three quarters of the market in South Africa.
...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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