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Coca-Cola is a lot more useful than the world's most popular refreshing drink: the carbonated candy can be used for a lot more than just drinking. Here are 12 things you didn’t know you could do with Coke.
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Hundreds of SA food and beverage industrialists are expected to gather in Durban in early spring for SAAFoST's biennial congress and expo.
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More proof that fat is back in a big way in the US is the launch by Stonyfield, the nation's leading organic yogurt maker, of an exciting new range dubbed "Oh My Yog!".
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The US arm of international food giant Nestlé has become the latest food manufacturer in the US to announce the reformulation of many of its products to reflect increasing consumer pressure for clean label products and reduced salt.
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Although many Western retailers already display the tenderness of meat cuts on their packaging, Norwegian research group SINTEF has developed what it believes is a better system.
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For years, the US federal government has advised Americans that they are eating too much salt, and that this excess contributes yearly to the deaths of tens of thousands of people. But unknown to many shoppers urged to buy foods that are “low sodium” and...
Earlier this year, headlines around the world trumpeted an exciting bit of news that seemed too good to be true: "Eating chocolate ...
South Africa has been a trailblazer on the continent in the global battle to reduce salt intake through food. But three years after the bold food policy was first introduced in South Africa – and less than a year until it finally becomes law –...
Major packaged-food companies lost $4-billion in market share alone last year, as shoppers swerved to fresh and organic alternatives. Can the supermarket giants win them back? Fortune magazine spent months getting inside several of the US food industry’s key corporations to understand how they’re...
This week (4-5 June), Prof Tim Noakes will face the Health Professions Council, to answer a charge laid by the head of the Association for Dietetics of SA (ADSA) of unprofessional conduct, the worst misdemeanour a doctor can face, over an innocuous Tweet. This perverse...
Lisa Ronquest is one of South Africa's top young food scientists. After leading the Mars Africa R&D team for seven years in Cape Town, she's now ensconced in The Netherlands in a new global food R&D role for the multinational. Keen to to share her...
News from FACTS (Food & Allergy Consulting & Testing Services), SA's leading allergen consultancy, is that a Cape Town allergy clinic has reported five recent anaphylactic (life-threatening allergic) reactions to lupin. These individuals did not know that they had an allergy to this legume; they...
Advances in robotics make it possible to automate tasks such as processing poultry and vegetables.
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In an effort to tackle the dual problems of food waste and poverty, France has passed a groundbreaking law that requires supermarkets to donate unsold food to charity, give it away as animal feed, or face fines of up to €75,000 ($82,324) and two...
AECI has agreed to acquire 100% of Southern Canned Products (SCP), a leading manufacturer and distributor of juice-based drinks and products, from Gerber Goldschmidt South Africa, a private equity investment company, and the management of SCP.
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Krispy Kreme, the American global doughnut company and coffeehouse chain, is opening shop in SA, the multinational's first venture into Africa.
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Invoking Mary Shelley’s myth of Frankenstein is standard fare in arguments over controversial science. The real story of Frankenstein, however, has become distorted but, this article argues, if we embrace it, maybe the evidence about controversial science will start to tell a different story.
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Runaway international chocolate success story, Cadbury Dairy Milk Marvellous Creations, is now available in South Africa!
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Oceana Group, SA's largest fishing company which has Tiger Brands as an anchor shareholder, plans to buy Daybrook Fisheries, the US’s second-biggest processor of Gulf menhaden fish, for $382m or R4.6-bn.
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Saint Pie, set up in 1994 in Lydenburg, is a producer of pastry products, mainly savoury pies, and distributes to fuel station forecourts, food retailers and independent outlets throughout South Africa. It has distribution centres in Lydenburg, Pretoria and Welkom.
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