10 Sep Five-minute myth: is it really OK to eat food that’s fallen on the floor?
When a piece of food falls on the floor, is it really OK to eat if it's picked up within five seconds? This urban food myth contends that in those few seconds on the floor, dirt and...
04 Sep RCL beds down its diversification beyond chicken
After a rousing year of deal-making, diversified food producer RCL Foods is now eyeing “a bigger share of consumers’ stomachs” as part of its growth ambitions.
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03 Sep How to protect yourself from junk food science
Some people will believe what they want to regardless of what the evidence says. Others want to make good choices about what they eat, but the information needed to make those decisions is a cacophony of often conflicting claims from marketers, academics, activists, and the...
03 Sep Woolworths promotes Zyda Rylands to SA chief
Woolworths on has appointed Zyda Rylands, its current head of foods, as CEO of Woolworths SA. The new role has been created almost a year after the group, with a market cap of close to R103bn, became the second-largest department store owner in the southern...
02 Sep Save the planet, skip the salad!
There’s one food that has almost nothing going for it. It occupies precious crop acreage, requires fossil fuels to be shipped, refrigerated, around the world, and adds nothing but crunch to the plate. It’s salad, and there are several reasons why we need to rethink...
02 Sep Rosebank, Jo’burg, to be Krispy Kreme’s first SA stop
Global doughnut company and coffee retailer Krispy Kreme has announced that its first store in SA will be opened in Rosebank, Johannesburg, at the end of November.
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02 Sep New report says organic food is basically a ripoff
Organic or regular? It’s a loaded question that can mean many different things, sometimes all at once: Healthy or pesticide-drenched? Tasty or bland? Fancy or basic? Clean or dirty? Good or bad? But here’s the most important question for many customers: Is it worth the...
02 Sep How the diets of early humans explain our eating habits
Much attention is being given to what people ate in the distant past as a guide to what we should eat today.
01 Sep New ingredient has melting ice cream problem licked?
Childhood memories of sticky hands from melting ice cream cones could soon become obsolete, thanks to a new food ingredient devised by Scottish researchers.
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01 Sep Nestlé announces global commitment to sustainable cocoa for KitKat
Global chocolate biscuit brand, KitKat, manufactured by Nestlé, has announced that it will use only sustainably sourced cocoa to manufacture all of its products, and will do so from the first quarter of 2016. It is the first global brand to make such a move.
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01 Sep Sugar Rush: Jamie Oliver declares war on sugar
A decade on from his school dinners campaign, Jamie Oliver is back fighting a new war, this time against unhealthy levels of sugar in the nation's diet.
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01 Sep Terrific new flexible pack concept comes to SA
Last year Dow Packaging launched the innovative rigid packaging alternative, PacXpert, at the giant Interpack expo in Dusseldorf. It's now coming to South Africa via a licensing agreement signed with Astrapak.
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01 Sep Why greater transparency on SA food packaging should get the green light
Making healthier food purchasing decisions is becoming increasingly important for South Africa where more than half of the population is overweight and obese. Two Wits University public health academics advocate better FOP - front-of-pack - labelling as one helpful strategy.
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31 Aug Getting lettuce to make ‘miracle’ sugar substitute
Miraculin, derived from the 'Miracle Berry' can turn lemons into lemonade, really. In a quest to synthesize and commercialise this 'game-changing' non-calorific sweetener, is a start-up biotech firm in New York.
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31 Aug EU: HPP most important food technology, today and tomorrow
High pressure processing (HPP) will be the most commercially important food processing technology for European industry in the next ten years, according to new data.
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30 Aug Woolies to oust sweets and chocs from checkout lines
Woolworths has announced it is removing sugary temptation from its checkout aisles - following the footsteps of most UK retailers and again setting the retail bar in SA.
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24 Aug Yarn from slaughterhouse waste
It’s not quite a silk purse from a sow’s ear, but a Swiss PhD student has developed a method for obtaining high-quality fibres from a by-product of slaughterhouse waste.
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24 Aug Eliminating water-borne bacteria with pages from The Drinkable Book
Human consumption of bacterially contaminated water causes millions of deaths each year throughout the world--primarily among children. While studying the material properties of paper as a graduate student, Theresa Dankovich, PhD, discovered and developed an inexpensive, simple and easily transportable nanotechnology-based method to purify drinking...
24 Aug NHANES review finds carbs have made America obese
For almost 50 years, the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) has measured the caloric consumption, and body heights and weights of Americans. A new review of its data published in the journal Nutrition firmly points the finger at the US's dietary guidelines...
24 Aug In defence of cheap milk
The falling cost of milk has created a furore in Britain, as dairy farmers there and in Western Europe have been hit by something of a perfect storm. Anyone with a heart should have sympathy for people whose livelihoods are being threatened by forces beyond...
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