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Kraft-owned Cadbury has expanded its "sharing bag" portfolio with a chocolate-coated toffee popcorn product, in a bid to claim some of the UK’s burgeoning £42m (€52.46m) popcorn market, but four years after it exited the sector....
The US FDA has rejected a request from the Corn Refiners Association to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup.
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Researchers at Oregon State University have made some fundamental discoveries about how people taste, smell and detect flavour, and why they love some foods much more than others. The findings could lead to the Holy Grail of nutrition – helping people learn to...
Paul Polman isn’t afraid to shake things up. Since taking over as CEO of Unilever, in 2009, he has transformed the Anglo-Dutch multinational into one of the world’s most innovative corporations. He did away...
Paul Polman isn’t afraid to shake things up. Since taking over as CEO of Unilever, in 2009, he has transformed the Anglo-Dutch multinational into one of the world’s most innovative corporations. He did away...
Britain's most public and famous entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has extended his Virgin brand name from record shop ands airlines, to mobile phones, space and deep sea travel, hotels and cheeky health clubs, among several others. Now Brits will soon be finding the Virgin brand...
Britain's most public and famous entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has extended his Virgin brand name from record shop ands airlines, to mobile phones, space and deep sea travel, hotels and cheeky health clubs, among several others. Now Brits will soon be finding the Virgin brand...
Latest pesticide residue data on fresh produce and other foods in the US have confirmed that the residues do not pose safety concerns, according the US Department of Agriculture....
A London store is flogging a new range of gourmet salts, extracted from human tears...
Over the last decade, America's war on obesity has targeted some fairly obvious culprits, including fast food, pastries, fried foods and soda. But recent scientific studies and a new government-sponsored documentary, "Weight of the Nation", that aired last week on the HBO channel, have identified...
Afriplex, the Paarl-based botanical ingredient and flavour group that is now ISO22000 certified, reports it is offering additional services in the field of product stability testing for the food-beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
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With their quirky design and superior contents, new yoghurt and fruit juice ranges launched recently by Sonnendal Diaries have added new zip to our dairy shelves - and they taste as good as they look, as Emma Rowberry of PACKAGiNG & Print Media magazine discovered...
What sort of mincemeat do you buy? Lean, extra lean? Do you know what those descriptors actually mean? Well, it seems they mean different things to different vendors, as top consumer journalist, Wendy Knowler, investigated recently....
Food and beverage companies around the world – from the largest to the smallest – are experimenting with new ways to reach consumers, to bypass supermarkets and keep more margin (see Micro-Trend 7 in New Nutrition Business's NB 10 Key Trends 2012).
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BMI has released it annual quantification of the tea market covering four categories black tea, iced tea, rooibos and speciality tea. The mainstay of the market remains with black tea which commands a 58.3% share of overall market volumes, but watch out for rooibos and...
Liqui-Fruit has launched two new flavours to its sparkling range and, with it, a prominent social responsibility campaign in support of Operation Smile South Africa to help give children born with facial deformities their smiles back....
Radical Waters reports that its controlling shareholder, Giant Trading, has had two patents issued supported by Radical Waters' cutting edge, ECA (electrochemically-activated water) technology of interest to the starch and grain industries.
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Scientists are several steps closer to restoring flavour to the supermarket tomato, a once-magnificent fruit turned by commercial pressures into a juicy orb of gustatory cardboard....
Most people have pulled long-forgotten vegetables from their refrigerator's depths at least once, and just the memory is enough to make a stomach turn. But one man's fridge mould is another man's still life. Estonian artist, Heikki Leis' Afterlife is a veritable rotting cornucopia of...
While there's little joy in housework, it did keep women's waists a lot leaner than they are today. New research out of the UK has found that ‘because they do less housework’, the average British female waist has expanded by six inches since the 1950s.
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