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Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking has taken the international foodie world by storm. This six-volume, 2 348-page work - co-authored by one of the founding technical geniuses of Microsoft - relies heavily on photography and illustrations to...
You might think that scientific evidence would constitute the “last word” when food safety rules are made, but in fact it’s only the beginning. Policy makers take many other factors into consideration, including tradition, cultural trends, political expediency, and pressure from industry.To...
As the increasing number food scares causes consumers to question the safety of everyday food items, researchers at Queen's University, Belfast, have completed the first ever analysis of all the food recalls announced in the USA, UK and Ireland over the last...
What may be the world's largest chemistry experiment in history launched last week as part of the International Year of Chemistry 2011....
A new scientific study positions walnuts in the No 1 slot among a family of foods that lay claim to being among Mother Nature's most nearly perfect packaged foods: tree and ground nuts. ...
We're always being told to cut down on caffeine for our wellbeing – yet new studies suggest it could protect against a range of diseases. This article filters fact from froth....
With millions of adults and children avoiding nutritious foods because of the bitter taste, and gagging or vomiting when forced to take bitter liquid medicines, Givaudan has expanded on its new bitter blocker at the annual National Meeting & Expo of...
Nando's has won its prolonged legal attempt to recover its costs and settle with Freddy Hirsch Group over the millions in damages it incurred when the latter supplied spices containing the toxic dye Sudan 1....
Researchers in Spain have found new evidence that rooibos protects the liver against the accumulation of fat and can help to prevent metabolic diseases....
Kauai, the quick service health restaurant chain, plans to open 40 new stores in the next three years as the group evolves from a niche brand to a mainstream fast food business....
Africa is largely untapped territory and its growth potential is phenomenal, according to Johan van Zyl, manufacturing director of Kraft Foods Sub-Saharan Africa (left)....
Local beermaker SAB has clawed back some of the market share it lost over the past two years. Having revitalised operations, cut costs and invested savings in promoting its core brands, SAB's market share has stabilised over the past 10 months....
Vitiva has launched an all-natural heat-stable red colour for meat applications named Bright’nRED HS, which is based on proprietary extracts designed to replace carmine colour....
It's the battle of the sea giants as Sea Harvest and I&J faced off again in court recently, fighting over crumbed fish fillets. Sea Harvest's Oven Crisp product has, according to papers filed in the Cape Town High Court, flown out of...
The true size of SA's population has been open to speculation for years - and the failed census of 2001 did not add any clarity. Is it 49, 50 or even 60 million? Some accuracy on the matter would be of great assistance to SA...
In today's capricious economic times, all governments are concerned about food security - and it is also very much on the agenda of South African food retailers and companies. A provocative editorial inThe Daily Maverick notes that while food security is already very much on the agenda...
This year marks the moment when the world’s population will pass the seven billion mark. It will be the first time in recorded history that the number of people will have doubled in the span of one generation....
As in most of the western world, marriage, monogamy and the nuclear family have been the social mainstay mostly because of religious, and especially Judaeo-Christian, values. We still automatically assume monogamy is “normal”, but this is contrary to our...
National Geographic magazine is running “7 Billion”, a special year-long series on global population. This video in particular asks who is the world’s most “typical” person, taking income, cell phone usage, personal finance, gender, age, ethnicity and more into account. Turns out the world’s most...
You could eat Japan's so-called ‘radioactive spinach’ for a whole year and it still wouldn’t cause you much harm, argues Bill Durodié, writing on spiked-online.com....