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Backed by beer heavyweight InBev, EverGrain is a new American ingredient company looking to revolutionise spent barley into highly nutritious protein and fibre barley-based ingredients.
Nestlé has announced that its popular Smarties brand is now using recyclable paper packaging for its confectionery products worldwide.
The author of the new book, The Case for Keto, argues that conventional approaches to tackling obesity and diabetes aren’t working, and that low-carbohydrate diets could be the way forward.
The eat-at-home trend and its online delivery foray have made all the difference for Woolworths in a very tough trading environment.
If you are a food entrepreneur or just curious about forging a start-up to grown-up food manufacturing business, please enjoy this amusing retrospective by NoMU co-founder, Paul Raphaely. NOMU is one of South Africa’s leading, independent food innovators, with an ever-expanding range of quality food and lifestyle products.
Rabbi Desmond Maizels, head of the Cape Town Beth Din Kashrut, passed away on January 15. A giant and a legend in his community, he was well known and well loved by many in the SA food industry in his role as compliance officer for Kosher standards. His death has particularly moved Saul Abrahams, scion of the duo of families who founded Orley Foods, now part of Kerry Ingredients, who pays his respects here.
Along with single servings of coffee, Nespresso or Keurig-like pods have also been devised to dispense cocktails, wine, fresh tortillas and even full meals. ColdSnap forges into different territory, by serving up fresh ice cream and other frosty treats in a jiffy.
To enable more flexible and agile food production, engineers at Unilever have designed a nano factory that fits into a 12-metre container.
Yellow mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) have crossed a significant regulatory hurdle as Europe’s first insect to be identified as safe for consumption, which may hasten similar progress for other species and their related product applications.
Retail giant Pick n Pay has announced that current CEO Richard Brasher will stop down from the helm later this year to be replaced by former Metro AG COO Pieter Boone.
When pastry chef Charlotte Haygarth went sugar-free for a few months, she couldn’t turn back after seeing the positive effects. Curious to figure out how she could continue making treats sans sugar, she got experimenting in the kitchen which led to an invention that was nowhere to be seen on the market.
The US food industry is struggling through the coronavirus pandemic, but the end is in sight. Which of its lessons will become permanent? This article is American in focus, but provides some really interesting global insights...
Now here's an intelligent solution to making sure your sterilization and pasteurization processes are up to scratch - the testo 191 data logger system.
The informal economy is invisible, but all around us – like a mist drifting by our car windows, hanging around on street corners, covering the townships. It is growing in an urgent organic pace unmatched by the formal sector.
Marketing is integral to enticing retailers and consumers to foodbev products. Here are some pertinent insights into the state of marketing in South Africa, penned by futurist/trends guru, Jonathan Cherry. 'The business of business is marketing" goes the old adage, but it seems to be something on the wane, as Cherry laments.
While dried almonds may appear to be one of the "safer" foods, they're actually prone to contamination by harmful bacteria. A simple new process could prevent this, while also boosting shelf life.
The Makers Landing Food Lab incubation programme at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront recently opened, a partnership with the National Treasury’s Jobs Fund to support job creation and skills development in the local food industry. It's currently home, too, to an exhibition of 100 Flavours of South Africa.
Black liquorice may look and taste like an innocent treat, but this candy has a dark side. This article was one of the top five 'most read' articles on the US edition of The Conversation in 2020.
South Africa's Sugar Master Plan, delayed by Covid, has been agreed by all stakeholders in the R14-billion industry and seeks to stem a crisis caused by a flood of cheap imports and the tax on sugar-sweetened drinks that lowered demand from beverage makers.
UK biotech company, Toraphene, claims it has created the world’s “first” truly biodegradable, compostable alternative to plastic packaging. and which contains graphene.