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Coca-Cola says it will make lower-calorie options and clear calorie labelling more widely available around the world, intensifying a push against critics who say its drinks pack on the kilos.
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Burger King, the world’s second largest hamburger chain, will open up its first South African branch today at midday, on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town. The first 1000 customers through the door will receive a free Whopper, according to the chain....
Many kinds of cinnamon, cinnamon-flavoured foods, beverages and food supplements in the United States use a form of the spice that contains high levels of a natural substance that may cause liver damage in some sensitive people, scientists are reporting.
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The CEO of Diageo, Paul Walsh, the FTSE 100's third longest-serving boss and a man who has a strong affinity for South Africa, is stepping down after 13 years at the helm of the company behind Smirnoff and Guinness, and the...
Sacré bleu! More than half of all French restaurant sales now take place at fast food chains, according to a new survey by food consultancy firm Gira Conseil....
Ishida technology and expertise has enabled Fruits du Sud, a South African producer of high quality raisins, to grow its business by 130% per annum over the past two years....
An agreement with leading producer, Mingtai, will facilitate increased availability of MCC to meet market needs and growing consumer demand, says DuPont....
Sensient Colors, the global leader in natural colours, has introduced DustPro NXT natural colour powders, an innovative product line that extends Sensient’s portfolio. DustPro NXT, it says, significantly reduce dust levels while improving colour solubility compared to traditional natural colour powders....
Yet more M&A activity in SA's food ingredients sector...
Recent internet-based discussion has resurrected fears over the link between carrageenan and poligeenan which studies have found to be a possible carcinogen. The subject has been revived by bloggers and others. Ingredients Solutions, a supplier of carrageenan-based hydrocolloids, has published this refutation....
Sensient Colors reports it has developed an 'Advanced Emulsion Technology' for natural colours - combining multiple oil and water-based natural colours to provide a complex colour matrix in a single delivery system, thus achieving new natural colour shades that were previously unattainable. ...
You know you have a health-perception problem when a fast-food marketer takes a shot at you. So when Wendy's - hardly the standard for health food - makes a point of marketing its beef as "fresh, never frozen," the $70-billion frozen-food industry decided it had...
Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, has reported its first fall in profits since the early 1990s, down 51.5% to £1.96 billion after a series of hefty property writedowns and slowing sales growth, and confirmed that it's pulling out of its US...
Coca-Cola will start selling a caffeine-free version of its Coke Zero soft drink this US summer. The Atlanta-based company said Caffeine Free Coke Zero will begin appearing in grocery stores, drug stores and other retail locations in mid-July, with a complete national roll-out in August....
Why drink beer out of a cylindrical can when you can drink it out of a bow tie-shaped can? That's what US beer giant, Anheuser-Busch, is positing, as it releases a unique can that it hopes will be worth its weight in marketing gold....
Sending messages in bottles has been around since at least the Ancient Greeks...
Leading scientists have hailed sorghum as a highly nutritious and cost-effective gluten-free grain, but say industry use remains small....
Microbes in the gut may be a key to helping people lose weight, according to two tantalising new studies....
The world's biggest scheme to certify that seafish come from sustainable sources has come under fire in a scientific journal, where researchers say the label is too generous and may "mislead" consumers....
Popular supermarkets including Pick n Pay, Shoprite, Woolworths, Spar and Fruit & Veg have responded to a City Press report that identified them as stocking incorrectly labelled meat products, largely blaming cross-contamination.