08 May Zesty seedless lemons to hit SA shelves
Introducing LemonGold, a new brand of premium citrus fruit that's following in the footsteps of SA’s exquisite mandarin, ClemenGold, a Woolies' exclusive fruit.
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08 May US: Beyond Meat sizzles as it goes public
Beyond Meat became the first plant-based food manufacturer to go public on a major stock exchange on May 4. The company's stock, which was priced at $25 a share, closed the day up 163%, to $65.75. Beyond Meat ended the day with a market capitalisation of $3.9-billion.
08 May Replacing palm oil with spent coffee grounds?
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A Scottish firm specialising in high-value products derived from used coffee grounds claim they are developing pioneering environmentally-efficient processes that could lead to a sustainable and alternative ingredient to palm oil.
08 May Oops! A stray takeaway coffee cup in ‘Game of Thrones’
With two episodes of HBO's wildly popular medieval fantasy saga Game of Thrones to go, fans took to social media this week after heroine Daenerys Targaryen was joined at a wooden banquet table by a rogue Starbucks coffee cup.
07 May Ajinomoto investing millions in ‘rehabbing’ MSG
Ajinomoto, the world’s largest producer of monosodium glutamate, is on a crusade to rehabilitate the image of MSG, long reviled as the source of so-called “Chinese restaurant syndrome”.
07 May Chobani’s Hamdi Ulukaya wants an “anti-CEO” revolution
In mid-April, the founder of massively successful US yogurt company Chobani, Hamdi Ulukaya, gave the opening talk for the first night of TED 2019, this year's TED talk conference in Vancouver. In short, he posited, most CEOs are leading their companies wrong.
07 May Pioneering macadamia as a food ingredient
SA's largest macadamia group, Green & Gold Macadamias, has developed some interesting ingredient applications using this versatile and highly popular nut.
30 Apr UWC grad digs into history of Cape Town’s iconic Gatsby sandwich in thesis
A masters graduate at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) has written her thesis on the evolution of Cape Town's signature super sandwich, the Gatsby.
29 Apr Food safety: looking for the ‘panda’ with Entecom’s Rolf Uys
Rolf Uys is a very familiar face of the food safety industry in South Africa and likely its most experienced food factory auditor. Food Focus caught up with Rolf preparing for one of his legendary inspections. When did you first become interested in the food industry? After...
29 Apr A brief history of the crazy denunciation of lard
Lard, the go-to, super-tasty cooking fat for aeons, didn't just fall out of popular favour. It was pushed, a casualty of an American battle between giant business and their corporate interests.
29 Apr Pick n Pay’s Richard Brasher is getting the job done
The surge in Pick n Pay’s share price and sales suggests that the retailer is returning to its former glory days. Brasher, the Brit who was appointed in 2013 as Pick n Pay CEO, has led the retailer’s spectacular recovery. However, the market wonders if Brasher will remain in the hot seat for another few years to see through the full recovery.
29 Apr High CO2 levels will deplete plants’ nutritional value
We’re heading for a nutrition crisis. Plants love to eat CO2, and we’re giving them a lot more of it lately. But as Prof Kristie Ebi shows, there’s a hidden, terrifying consequence — the nutritional quality of plants is decreasing, reducing levels of protein, vitamins and nutrients that humans need.
28 Apr How our sense of taste changes as we age
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Taste is a complex phenomenon. We do not experience the sensation through a single sense (as we would when we see something using our sense of sight, for example) but rather it is made up of the five senses working together to allow us to appreciate and enjoy food and drink.
22 Apr Kraft’s new CEO faces tough task: revive ‘dusty’ brands
Kraft Heinz has named a new chief executive, appointing a fellow veteran manager of companies backed by investment firm 3G Capital to succeed Bernardo Hees amid some troubled times for the US food giant.
19 Apr Paris court hands down convictions over 2013 horsemeat scandal
Four men have been found guilty of falsely labeling horsemeat as beef. The convictions stem from a Europe-wide scandal in 2013 in which the meat was used in frozen lasagna and other industrial food products.
19 Apr Tiger Brands to defend class action suit
The claims of more than 1,000 listeriosis victims are proceeding against the food producer in a single matter.
17 Apr ULMA adds productivity punch to massive meat line
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ULMA Packaging has recently carried out a major installation for the vacuum packing of meat with the Flow-vac system in the cold storage facilities of one of the largest supermarket chains in Argentina.
17 Apr Sugar tax: what, how, why?
Governments across the globe are pushing ahead with sugar taxes. In this video, New Nutrition Business discusses if they actually work, and how the food and beverage industry is reacting.
16 Apr Private equity firm to buy Bolthouse Farms from Campbell Soup
Campbell Soup has announced it will sell its Bolthouse Farms business to an affiliate of private equity firm, Butterfly Equity, for $510-million, in the US food company’s first major sale as part of its plan to reduce debt.
14 Apr Brimstone exits Clover buyout deal following criticism from anti-Israel group
Brimstone Investments, the local investment firm, has announced that it will not participate in the R4.8bn ($343.95m) acquisition deal of South Africa’s largest dairy firm, Clover Industries.
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