10 Feb Montic and Sonnendal dairies’ ‘game-changing merger’ creates new SA dairy group
Montic Dairy and Sonnendal Dairies, two major South African private-label dairy processors, recently finalised their much-awaited merger.
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10 Feb Designer of Japan’s famous soy sauce bottle dies
The designer of the iconic Japanese soy sauce bottle, Kenji Ekuan, has died aged 85.
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08 Feb Fridges are becoming cooler and cooler
It is time for the refrigerator to pull its weight. For decades it has kept food chilled and spat out ice cubes. Now, it is a computer, stereo, telephone, television, water filter and sparkling water dispenser. It's also about to make a cup of coffee.
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05 Feb Average global consumer purchases 765 calories a day in packaged food and soft drinks
Market research company, Euromonitor International, has released new research examining the total amount of nutrients purchased per-person, per day through packaged food and soft drinks products. This first-of-its-kind data, available in Euromonitor's Passport: Nutrition database, tracks energy, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, sugar, salt, protein and...
05 Feb Clicks stands by its herbal products despite US scam findings
Retailer Clicks says it stands by the integrity of US-based GNC supplements, for which it holds the exclusive distribution rights in SA, and will continue to sell GNC herbal products despite a finding by the New York attorney-general's office that GNC was selling fraudulent and...
04 Feb New SA consumer watchdog has natural-organic products in its sights
Many food marketing sceptics would say of this development: "About time!" Introducing TOPIC (Testing of Products Initiated by Consumers), a new consumer-led organisation that aims to test the authenticity of natural and organic products on SA's shelves. It's already boasting a scalp: getting frozen yoghurt...
04 Feb SAAFFI’s 2015 seminar will ‘go back to the future’
The SA Association of the Flavour & Fragrance Indutry (SAAFFI) will be hosting its 13th Annual Seminar & Workshop, with a theme of 'Back to the Future'. Always a vibrant and well-attended event, it will take place on Tuesday, 10 March 2015, at the Bytes...
04 Feb How to unboil an egg
A team of scientists led by UC Irvine has shown that you can unboil an egg, or at least egg whites ...
04 Feb The man who’s supposed to turn McDonald’s around
McDonald's is looking to one of its high-profile British executives, 48-year-old Steve Easterbrook who will become its new CEO on March 1, to do again what he did in his home country for the world's largest restaurant chain — this time on a...
04 Feb US: Hershey moves into jerky with Krave acquisition
Chocolate maker, Hershey, is making a move outside the candy aisle with an agreement to buy Krave, which makes beef jerky and other high-protein snacks. The reason: meat snacks is an estimated $2.5 billion opportunity in the US, and a category that's growing at a...
03 Feb Nando’s has arrived! Talking to CEO Robbie Brozin
In the world of business, you know you've got it made when the Financial Times puts together a splashy profile of you and your business. And that's the happy position that Robbie Brozin found himself in recently when the FT published a long interview with...
25 Jan New convience breakfast biscuit now on SA shelves
Although a big trend in Europe and more recently in the US, the habit of eating biscuits for breakfast is new to South Africans. No more, perhaps! Bakers, in National Brands' stable, is jumping on this wagon - and trumping Mondelez, a key rival that...
22 Jan WikiPearls: A Time Magazine ‘best invention of 2014’
WikiPearls, a future food packaging concept, have been around for a few years now and have deservedly garnered much media coverage and innovation awards. The latest is a citation by Time Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2014.
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21 Jan Soylent: A joke no more as it gets millions in venture cap investment
It surely started as a one-man experiment, and evolved into something of a social media joke - but Soylent, the Los Angeles start-up that makes a powdery meal replacement with a sweeping nutritional composition, has just raised $20-million in additional venture capital, the company announced...
21 Jan Spur buys new gourmet brand, upping its niche market presence
More South Africans will soon get to experience a trendy, new, fast-but-personalised restaurant concept, now that the Spur Corporation is set to acquire the majority stake in RocoMamas.
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21 Jan When a food label lies
Food labels seem to provide all the information a thoughtful consumer needs, so counting calories should be simple. But things get tricky because food labels tell only half the story. A calorie is a measure of usable energy. Food labels say how many calories a...
21 Jan EFSA: BPA poses no risk
Bisphenol A (BPA) poses no health risk to consumers of any age group, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
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21 Jan Sedentary behaviour trumps obesity as a killer
If you had but one New Year's resolution to keep, maybe it should be to get up and move a little more. Yet another study shows that a sedentary lifestyle is the 'new smoking'.
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20 Jan South Africa’s first black diamond truffle discovered
This exciting discovery on an Mpumalanga plantation ends a farmer's nine-year quest to cultivate one of the most expensive delicacies in the world - and could be the start of a lucrative new agri-industry.
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19 Jan The veggie burger that bleeds like real meat
A Stanford, California, biochemistry professor has invented a meat-free burger that looks and bleeds juice just like the beef you cook on a grill. Venture capitalists and Bill Gates think he's onto something and have put up millions in backing dollars.
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