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Macridge, a well-established macadamia processor in Limpopo's Soutpansberg Mountains, has taken its production to new levels thanks to an investment in advanced sorting technology.
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It is usually frowned upon for a restaurant to welcome the company of cockroaches, let alone a family of large Madagascan ones. But one kitchen in rural Pembrokeshire has won a social entrepreneur award for doing just that, before it even opened.
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Too slow to ripen or too squidgy and brown inside, avocados often end up contributing to the UK’s food waste mountain. But retailer, Tesco, believes it has the answer to these avocado woes: frozen, de-stoned, peeled and ripe when they...
Few media reports in the health sphere generate as much attention as those with screaming headlines about a new link between food and cancer. The level of interest is understandable. But a common mistake in reporting these findings is to confuse the strength of...
Tiger Brands said yesterday it would cut funding to its struggling Nigerian venture after nearly R1bn in write-downs.
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A merger that sparked fears of a monopoly of sorts within the instant porridge market has been given the green light.
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The corner pot concept for yoghurt has been around since the 1980s, but today it's proving another huge winner for America's Greek yoghurt king, Chobani.
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There is an infamous dearth of accessible data and intelligence on food trends and consumption in South Africa, unless you have deep pockets to buy expensive reports from various market research companies. The largest and only national food consumption survey conducted in SA was way...
Nestlé South Africa has launched a new line of Maggi noodles containing the green leafy vegetable ‘morogo’, which is being commercialised for the first time ever as a result of a three-year research collaboration with the CSIR and the ARC.
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Lisa Ronquest is one of South Africa's top young food scientists, now transferred to The Netherlands in a global food R&D role by Mars. She's been sharing her impressions and insights with FOODStuff SA readers in a regular column, and we're proud here to publish...
South African parents are deeply invested in their families and therefore want the very best for their children—from the food they put in their mouths to the nappies they put on their bottoms, and they’re willing to pay for it.
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In a joint Norwegian-SA venture, a multimillion-rand factory making Unicef-accredited therapeutic food, called eeZeePaste NUT, specifically designed for extremely malnourished children between the ages of 6 and 24 months, opened in Capricorn Park, Muizenberg, Cape Town, last month.
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Children are manifesting increased rates of adult diseases like hypertension or high triglycerides. And they are getting diseases that used to be unheard of in children, like Type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease....
Her show might be gone but the “Oprah Effect” clearly endures. After Oprah Winfrey last week announced she would buy a 10 percent stake in Weight Watchers and take a seat on the board, the company’s slumping stock doubled to $13.92 per share, adding about...
The commercial sale of lab-grown hamburgers to affluent and adventurous consumers could be just five years away, claims the Maastricht University researcher, who has led work into the highly innovative field of in vitro meat research. Two years after a $250,000 artificial meat hamburger was...
Kerry has acquired US-based Red Arrow Products, Island Oasis and Biothera’s Wellmune business, significantly expanding the group’s portfolio of taste and nutrition solutions for global food, beverage and pharmaceutical applications. The transactions are valued at $735m. In the financial year 2014, the businesses being acquired...
Red and processed meats have the potential to cause cancer in humans, according to a report by a WHO agency released on Monday. This is not new news, but that it has come from the WHO has generated massive media attention, with predictable reactions of...
There has been a deluge of reaction, for and against, to last week's announcement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that processed meat – like bacon, sausages and ham – is a Class 1 carcinogen, a claim...