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Cargill has completed the sale of its global flavours business to Kerry, the ingredients & flavours and consumer foods group. The two companies announced in July 2011 that they were holding exclusive discussions and a definitive sales agreement was signed on September 22, 2011.
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What causes cancer? New research from Cancer Research UK shows that 40% of cancers in women and 45% in men could be prevented by a healthier lifestyle. The report found more than 100,000 cancers each year in the UK are caused by four lifestyle...
A trusty proxy for SA food inflation - the price of a can of tomatoes - has increased sharply in recent months. So it was not surprising to see Statistics SA report that food inflation surged to 11% in October, up from an annual increase...
“You are what you eat.” The old adage has for decades weighed on the minds of consumers who fret over responsible food choices. Yet what if it was literally true? What if material from our food actually made its way into the innermost control centers...
Big food companies know they need to reach more African shoppers. But on a continent where many consumers live far from urban areas and roads often are sketchy, at best, the typical multinational corporation's supply network often falls short. That's where Desmond Mugwambane comes in....
Poultry prices are expected to soar by at least 10 percent this festive season due to increased demand. Increases of 20 percent are expected in the new year as stocks of maize, a major input into poultry feed, become depleted. South Africa's...
Afriplex has added carbohydrate-cerived fulvic acid (CHD-FA) powder to its stable of functional ingredients. The Paarl-based ingredients and flavour company says its CHD-FA powder is produced from a pure, refined plant material using a wet oxidation process and is free of contaminants and of a...
Food Ingredients Europe & Natural Ingredients, in its 25th edition, has been on the go in Paris this week, and by all accounts the show has been a huge success with both exhibitor and visitor numbers up substantially from the 2009 event. A high-profile...
Food Ingredients Europe & Natural Ingredients, in its 25th edition, has been on the go in Paris this week, and by all accounts the show has been a huge success with both exhibitor and visitor numbers up substantially from the 2009 event. A high-profile...
The science behind weight loss, is part one of a series of sage and sane scientifically-based articles that looks at obesity and separates the myths about dieting from the realities of exercise and nutrition posted on The Conversation, is a website-based independent...
This Monday a lorry collided with a caravan and spilled 20 tonnes of Marmite on to the M1 in Yorkshire. It's hard to think of a more English mishap and the papers lapped it up. What was basically a minor...
As affluent western markets reach saturation point, global food and drink firms have been opening up new frontiers among people living on $2 a day in low- and middle-income countries. The world's poor have become their vehicle for growth. But diabetes, obesity...
Human noroviruses are the single biggest cause of gastroenteritis in the industrialised world and are associated with foodborne disease and rapid person to person transmission. New research has shed new light on the behaviour of these pathogens....
Nando's latest edgy satirical TV ad, "last dictator standing", that's currently running in South Africa will be cancelled, the Nando's restaurant chain has said - in reaction to outrage over the ad in Zimbabwe from militant Mugabe supporters.
..."Why do you have to make food taste so good that we overeat?" seemed to be the theme of a recent 60 Minutes episode on the CBS channel. Swiss flavour company Givaudan, "the largest flavouring company in the world," was the food industry's defender in...
More than 40 years after football players at the University of Florida first sipped what would soon become Gatorade, parent company PepsiCo is looking to move the brand beyond beverages - it is preparing a product lineup that will include energy bars, protein shakes, and...
From Coca-Cola to Lego, companies are banking on the "Me Selling Proposition" to revitalise their brands. In the 1970s, advertising was all about finding the USP, or Unique Selling Proposition, in a brand. In the 1980s, it shifted to an ESP, or an Emotional Selling...
The overall demand for cultured dairy products continues to increase and the yoghurt market plays an integral part within this. The category has seen consistent growth since BMI tracking started in 1998, reaching up to 18% in 2005, and in double digits for the...
An earlier article on UCT's Professor Jill Farrant notes that in 40 years time, as people sit down to a bowl of cornflakes at breakfast time, they might just want to close their eyes and offer thanks to this South African scientist....
An earlier article on UCT's Professor Jill Farrant notes that in 40 years time, as people sit down to a bowl of cornflakes at breakfast time, they might just want to close their eyes and offer thanks to this South African scientist....