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Freshly caught fish is delicious. But with every passing day, the nice fillet in your fridge smells a little fishier, thanks to a stinky molecule known as trimethylamine. Is there any hope? Here's how to make fish taste and smell less fishy with chemistry.
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Worldwide around 30% of food ends up in landfill sites. "It is no different in SA," says Dave Bester (left) MD of Groceries Unlimited, a firm aiming to reduce needless wastage.
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QR codes are coming back to product labels, but not to show consumers commercials or unlock promotions. These codes serve a more practical, functional purpose ie improving transparency and expanding manufacturer-consumer communication.
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An investigation by Bloomberg has uncovered some uncomfortable truths about what was really behind the fast-track success of much publicised US vegan food maker, Hampton Creek.
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You are what you eat – even if you’re a lamb grazing on fragrant plants in the Karoo. Stellenbosch University student Sarah Erasmus has just released scientific evidence proving that the unique taste of Karoo lamb comes from the vegetation on which the animals feed.
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Chemicals that form in cooked food have been linked to cancer – but the full picture is more complicated.
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Brining both adds and takes away value, say experts. Chicken imports are the fox in the hen house...
Food and beverages are an important economic factor for Southern Africa. food & drink technology Africa, the trade fair for processing, filling, packaging and logistics, will present the industry’s latest developments on September 14 -15, 2016.
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Monosodium glutamate is one of the best, cheapest flavour enhancers available - but its fortunes continue to wane. Here are some great insights from Euromonitor International.
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McDonald’s USA announces big changes to its food, its latest efforts on a journey to build a better company...
With 50 percent more antioxidants than acai, this African-Arabian superfruit is experiencing explosive growth within the US food and beverage industry.
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Procert Southern Africa has announced it now proudly offers IFS certification by a local auditor - and with it huge savings for exporting manufacturers.
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“A lot kills, a little cures,” wrote the father of toxicology, and botulinum toxin is the poster child for this important pharmaceutical concept. Here's a fascinating look at the history behind one of the most deadly toxins known to man, and a dreaded...
Pioneer Food Group has bought UK snack maker Streamfoods for £7.5m (R140m) to bolster its product range in Britain with branded goods.
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When Lawrence MacDougall picked up the apparently poisoned chalice of Tiger Brands CEO from Peter Matlare in May, he explicitly took on the challenge of putting SA’s largest food manufacturer back on a growth path.
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President Barack Obama has signed a controversial bill into law requiring the labelling of genetically modified ingredients.
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There's a good reason people don't throw themselves out of airplanes without parachutes or wingsuits, and that's because it rarely ends well. US skydiver Luke Aikins has proved the opposite with a record-breaking 'chute-and-suit-less' jump from 25,000 ft (7,620 m), sponsored by Mondelez International brand,...
A prominent theme at the Institute of Food Technologists’ annual meeting and food exposition held July 16-19 in Chicago was clean label. “A frustrating reality” is how one food scientist described the consequences of consumer demand for simple ingredients.
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Well known Cape Town academic and media commentator, Jacques Rousseau, who lectures on critical thinking and ethics in the UCT Commerce Faculty's School of Management Studies, was invited to speak at the prestigious IFT 2016 congress in Chicago last month, and drew wide acclaim for...