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Less than a week after the vaccine news from Pfizer, the US food and beverage industry is not wasting any time asking to be on the priority list for whenever one is made available.
Here's an interesting food waste upcycling story - the crafting of enviro-friendly, single-serve take-out food packaging via processing discarded pineapple crowns.
With sincere sadness, Symrise has announced the tragic passing of Miguel Pereira, commercial director Flavor at Symrise sub-Saharan Africa.
Now this is an apt solution for the African market! Swedish fats & oil company, AAK, has developed ILLEXAO, a range of fats suitable for making a ‘super compound’ that can seamlessly replace up to 100% of the free cocoa butter in a chocolate recipe.
Nestlé Purina is launching pet food that builds on alternative proteins to make better use of the planet's resources. The new line includes insects as well as plant protein from fava beans and millet.
Starbucks in South Africa has pulled out the stops in an against-the-odds 2020 investment drive and is opening eight new stores in four weeks, from mid-November to mid-December – in Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider methodically puts health at the forefront of his consumption, and is doing the same for the giant food group he heads.
FUTURELIFE, SA's well-known functional food brand, has revamped its FUTURELIFE BRAN FLAKES with HOWARU Premium Probiotics, by changing the latter's delivery of from powder sachets to capsules.
Nestlé recently made its first move into plant-based seafood with Sensational Vuna – a six-ingredient vegan alternative to tuna.
Here's an interesting ingredient innovation using upcycled food waste.... Dutch company DEPP has produced an egg membrane powder for the food and supplement industries that they claim is proven in alleviating joint stiffness and pain.
If you have ever been to Japan, you might have seen plastic models of food in the windows of restaurants, displaying the edible counterparts that lie within. These are called ‘sampuru’ or ‘sample’ and have been part of the Japanese economy and food culture for nearly one hundred years.
South African company, De Villiers Chocolate, has released a range of no-added sugar bars made with nut butter, something its owner and his customers are smiling about.
It seems intuitive for dairy-free yoghurt products to be plant-based, but here's an unusual new entrant into the category – eggs.
The European Parliament voted last week on the divisive issue of labelling faux meat products with meat-like names. Farmer lobbyists argued no. Environmentalists said yes.
Covid and lockdown have elicited much business rethink, with retail giant Woolworths announcing it's aiming for a bigger share of South Africa’s lucrative fresh food and grocery market, by committing “to invest R1 billion in its prices” over the next two-to-three years – 75% of which will go into lowering food prices.
Lockdown has had all kinds of nasty unexpected consequences, one of them being short supplies of Marmite. This hangover of the alcohol ban during the first phases of lockdown is due to a dearth of concentrated yeast extract, a byproduct from brewing beer.
The popular Propak Cape expo, supposedly due to be held this month, has had to be postponed to next year, but organisers, Specialised Exhibitions, is hosting a make-good webinar: 'Opportunities in Packaging in the New Normal’, taking place on Wednesday 21 October.
Firmenich, the world's largest privately-owned flavour company, has announced the creation of "the first ever flavour by Artificial Intelligence (AI)", a lightly grilled beef taste for use in plant-based meat alternatives.
The Fry Family Food Co have joined the global quest to emulate or better the regular plant-based burger with the launch of The Big Fry Burger.
A French startup has developed a urine-powered super-fertiliser, far better, greener and cheaper than current options, part of a drive to figure out how humanity can better design its sanitary systems to recognise our urine for the amazing resource it is.