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The estimate for South Africa’s avocado exports in 2020 has been adjusted down 11,6% from 18,5 million 4kg cartons to 16 million 4kg cartons, due to smaller fruit sizes as a result of the hot, dry summer.
Yebo Fresh, a tech-driven food delivery company catering exclusively to Cape Town townships, has expanded rapidly under lockdown.
A new Nielsen study, ‘The New Shopper Normal’, conducted at the end of May 2020 analyses how the mindsets and behaviour of South African shoppers have evolved during the nationwide lockdown.
Real Foods Group, which lists 160 Kauai stores and other food brands in its portfolio, has pivoted during lockdown to adapt to changing customer needs and safety requirements, and position itself for growth post-Covid.
Israeli start-up, Redefine Meat, plans to launch 3D printers to produce plant-based steaks mimicking real beef in a bid for a slice of the fast-growing alternative meat market.
Imagine you’re a food manufacturer who wants to get their products on the supermarket shelves. Here's a story of people who did just that. Meet Adri Williams who is part of empowering the workers at Khayelitsha Cookies, one bite at a time.
If you had to ask any food safety manager, “what part of your job do you dislike the most?” most will say “customer complaints”. Here's some great advice from Entecom on how best to handle and manage these in your food business.
SA’s bread industry is celebrating official Dept of Health approval for the use of sorbic acid as a preservative. This is indeed big and welcome news for the sector.
Join a panel of experts from AB InBev as they unpack innovative business strategies to adapt to Covid-19 changes.
Navigating the South African food labelling regulations and requirements can be tricky, to put it mildly. Here's a super-useful infographic to guide you through the maze.
Snack giant, Mondelēz International, has made new appointments to top positions on the African continent and South Africa; one an insider, one an outsider.
In this opinion piece, South African food science consultant, Nigel Sunley, marvels at SA's resilient food supply chain and ponders, in the wake of Covid-19, how much consumer behaviour has been at odds with popular sentiment on what constitutes 'healthy' or 'good' food.
Plant-based food will "completely replace" animal products within 15 years, - so goes the ambitious forecast from the founder and CEO of US meat-alternatives group, Impossible Foods.
Polyoak Packaging, a major packaging supplier to the foodbev sectors, reports on its 'new normal' and other extraordinary activities in the Covid-19 era.
Eskimo Pie ice cream bars will join a line of products being consigned to the scrap heap of history for their racially-insensitive names.
As COVID-19 began to crest in mid-March, Starbucks’s stock plummeted alongside the rest of the market. After all, Starbucks has 15,000 stores in the US and another 4,000 stores in China alone, and it closed cafes across both countries. How could it survive with the world under quarantine?
Salt may be our most underrated seasoning, but entrepreneur Samantha Skyring has found a local renewable source loved by chefs and consumers alike. Oryx Salt's journey to restaurant tables and supermarket shelves has been full of salty and sweet moments.
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed health to the forefront of many people’s minds. Prof Tim Spector of King’s College London reports on first outcomes of a fascinating nutritional study that's searching for new answers to correlations between diet and health.
A team of experts discuss everything around this topic, hosted and presented recently by the Food Focus team.
T2 diabetes is generally viewed as a chronic, incurable disease that only deteriorates - a position now widely refuted by many medical and dietary experts, and confirmed by this new clinical trial.