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Cranberry as a cure for bladder and urinary tract infections (UTIs) has long been claimed, but now proven by a Dutch company, Medical Brands. It has obtained a Class IIa Medical Device Status for...
Hain Celestial has added to its New Covent Garden Soup Co offering in the UK with the launch of a "new generation" of fresh soup products - dubbed...
A few decades ago Peruvians looked down on quinoa, a fixture of Andean diets for centuries, as food for the poorest of the poor — when it was not being fed to chickens. How things have changed...
The meteoric rise of stevia, a "natural, healthy" alternative to sugar - a holy grail for the food industry - is facing some hurdles in Europe since it won approval there last year: the problems are the aftertaste, the cost and possible hurdles in defining...
Shareholders of Kraft Foods have overwhelmingly approved Mondelez International as the name of the $35 billion snack foods company that will be created when the company finally splits sometime later this year....
Those scientists at MIT in the US are a super-clever lot - and news of one of their latest innovations could be revolutionary for the condiments industry: watch never-before-seen videos of an amazing new condiment lubricant that makes the inside of bottles so slippery, nothing...
'Go to work on an egg', went a no-nonsense British 1950s advertising campaign. But now obesity experts have found out that not only does an egg keep you going longer, it could also help keep you slim....
Sugar is one of the substances and objects that are carving new patterns of addictive behaviour in a disorientated world. This behaviour is the subject of new book, The Fix: How Addiction is Invading Our Lives and Taking...
A US federal administrative judge has ruled that the pomegranate juice maker POM Wonderful isn’t all that - but both sides have claimed victory....
Another spray from the ever-innovative Harvard professor, David Edwards, the inventor of Le Whif chocolate spray and AeroShot, a caffeine/coffee aerosol equivalent: this time he's turned his micro-particle spraying science to booze, delivering the sensation of alcohol without the bad side effects.
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Maybe you thought self-righteousness was the primary consequence of eating organic food. New research indicates it’s actually selfishness. So if you want to be a better person, perhaps don’t go near organic food!...
SIAL food expo only takes place in October, but the winners of its SIAL d’Or new product competition have already been announced. Judging, by editors of 28 retail trade magazines from around the world, recently took place in Montreal.
South Africa did not win any...
Cold, bubbly, sweet soda, long the American Champagne, is becoming product non grata in more places these days. Schools are removing sugary soft drinks from vending machines at a faster pace, and local governments from San Antonio to Boston are stepping up...
Beef Products Inc, the maker of the beef product dubbed “pink slime” by critics announced this week that it was laying off 86 employees from its corporate office in South Dakota, citing what it called the misinformation campaign about a product that is...
Nestlé has reintroduced the distinctive blue SMARTIES to the popular range, now made with a natural colourant, and accompanied with a marketing campaign focused on inspiring creativity in kids....
The name alone sounds so encouraging: HDL, the “good cholesterol”. The more of it in your blood, the lower your risk of heart disease. So bringing up HDL levels has got to be good for health. Or so the theory went.
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Type 2 diabetes is fast becoming a world-wide pandemic. One in 10 Americans have type 2 diabetes. Treatment tends to move from lifestyle changes and then onto a series of what's called "stacking meds" - combinations of drugs that inevitably become ineffective and eventually...
Danone has launched a “new category” of yoghurt to Spanish consumers – offering the experience of eating ice cream with the nutritional benefits of yoghurt - at a whopping capex of some R105m! ...
Chateau Libertas, believed to be South Africa’s oldest red blend, celebrates its 80th birthday this year. It was launched in 1932 by an American medical doctor, adventurer and former Texas Ranger, who had gone into winemaking when he moved to Stellenbosch. Not...
As two major global ingredient manufacturers announce new investment in synthetic menthol production, could this herald a new era for synthetic flavours, asks UK research company, RTS?
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