10 Jan Beer becomes ‘alcohol’ in Russia
Beer in Russia became an alcoholic drink for the first time on New Year's Day....
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10 Jan App, crackle, pop – food marketers target kids online
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced the results of a comprehensive study of food and beverage industry marketing expenditures and activities directed to children and teens. The study gauges the progress industry has made since first launching self-regulatory efforts to promote healthier food...
09 Jan A new, super-nutritious puffed rice for breakfast cereals and snacks
A new process for blowing up grains of rice produces a super-nutritious form of puffed rice, with three times more protein and a rich endowment of other nutrients that make it ideal for breakfast cereals, snack foods and nutrient bars, food scientists at Cornell University...
08 Jan World’s sweet tooth gives Sudan gum arabic export success
Business is booming in the western Sudanese town of En Nahud thanks to rising global demand for gum arabic, a natural and edible gum taken from acacia trees growing in the area. Used as an emulsifier to prevent sugar from crystallising in fizzy drinks, as...
03 Jan Unilever sells Skippy peanut butter brand for $700m
Unilever has agreed to sell its Skippy brand of peanut butter to US group Hormel Foods – the maker of Spam – in an all-cash deal worth $700m.
17 Dec Is there horse in your wors? Not unlikely!
Can you trust the labels on processed meats – mince, sausages, deli meats and burgers? If a study conducted by Dr Donna Cawthorn, a food scientist with the University of Stellenbosch, is anything to go by, you can’t, reports IOL consumer columnist, Wendy Knowler....
14 Dec Eco-friendly cleaning solution for UHT dairy processors
Manufacturers of ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk products can increase their processing capacity, cut their costs and benefit the environment via FoodPro Cleanline, an enzyme from the DuPont Danisco ingredient range that solves the age-old issue of fouling in UHT milk production....
14 Dec Scant evidence that salt raises BP, review finds
The evidence for health benefits associated with salt reduction is controversial and the "concealment of scientific uncertainty" is a mistake, American researchers have suggested....
13 Dec Marketing Moments 2012: Red Bull Stratos
The UK's regarded Marketing Magazine has named the energy drink's space mission as "unquestionably the marketing masterstroke of the year". ...
13 Dec The Bypass Cure
Type 2 diabetes can be reversed in the operating room. The implications are staggering for halting one of the world’s deadliest diseases....
13 Dec Stone Age people were making cheese over 7 000 years ago
Stone Age people living in northern Europe were making cheese more than 7 000 years ago according to scientists who believe they have found the first direct evidence of dairy processing....
13 Dec Pizza Hut perfume: for the fast food fan who has everything
Who wouldn’t want to smell like a pizza? The dough, the spices, the cheese, the greasy cardboard box — all that olfactory delight might be too much for one fast-food connoisseur to handle. But now you, too, can smell like the inside of...
13 Dec Why the coconut craze isn’t helping farmers
As demand for all-things-coconut grows in the US, coconut-producing countries from Sri Lanka to Brazil are scrambling to supply foreign firms on the hunt for more fruit. What’s less clear is how — or if — this boom will benefit the men and...
13 Dec Dr Oz: A new cheerleader for canned and frozen food
A recent Time Magazine’s front cover (December 3, 2012) and lead article will please food industrialists. It's entitled “What to Eat Now: The Anti-Food-Snob Diet” by Dr Mehmet Oz, the vice chairman and professor surgery at Columbia University, a...
13 Dec Kraft Foods invests R4.6 million in state-of-the-art testing facility
Kraft Foods South Africa recently opened a new microbiology laboratory at the company’s chocolate factory in Port Elizabeth. The R4.6 million investment will enable accurate and sensitive analyses of products in line with stringent microbiological testing requirements set by the global snacking company, now...
13 Dec Probing series into the massive US beef industry
America's Kansas City Star newspaper has published a hard-hitting investigative series into the current state of the US beef industry, called “Beef’s Raw Edges”. The project was spearheaded by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Mike McGraw. Needless to say, the industry is less than...
13 Dec Making sense of the Food Police vs Big Food battle
Food-related government intervention is trotted out all the time by food crusaders everywhere. But before we get to those interventions, maybe we should ask how we got here in the first place. [Lovely commentary from Rob Lyons, deputy editor of spiked-online.com, one of...
13 Dec What a year it has been – Google’s Zeitgeist 2012 video
Something different for the end of the year – Google has released its Zeitgeist video, which takes a look at the year in 'search'. And what a year it’s been. Check out "Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review".
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13 Dec Reshaping the future of cocoa in Africa
Precious cocoa - caught between the chocolate appetite of the affluent West and the struggles of small-scale African farmers. New efforts and business/NGO partnerships are underway to bolster production and sustainability....
13 Dec Barry Callebaut now leader of the cocoa-choc pack
Barry Callebaut, the largest maker of bulk chocolate, agreed to buy Singapore-based and listed Petra Foods' cocoa-ingredients unit for $950-million to expand processing capacity and boost sales in Asia, and thereby becoming the world’s biggest cocoa processor....
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