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Cape Town's Delite Foods, well-known for a variety of sugar-free products, has recently launched a range of sophisticated liquid flavour essences, designed for the catering, restaurant and small food manufacturing businesses. And FOODStuff SA is giving away TEN gift packs of these great new flavour concepts...
Meatmaking is a process that’s so inefficient it’s ripe for disruption. That's a key driver behind the extensive drive by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and their venture capitalist backers to create the post-animal economy. This fascinating article, a long read, details all these players and their various methodologies.
While the clean label trend has brought the perception that less is more to the forefront of Western world F&B product development, consumers are still interested in products with added ingredients that provide a functional benefit. Probiotics and prebiotics, and the ever-emerging science around them, are drawing growing consumer and industry interest.
In Singapore, neighbourhood cafés are being ‘disrupted’ by a new foodie trend: vending machine cafes that serve up blast-chilled dinners, ready to eat or frozen, called Chef-in-Box.
South Africa now owns the title of home to the world's worst outbreak of human listeriosis, with confirmed cases: 767; deaths: 81 as at 16 January 2018. Here is news of two symposia worth attending - two different programmes with complementary objectives.
Global confectionery group, Ferrero, has signed a definitive agreement with Nestlé to acquire its US confectionary business for $2.8bn in cash.
A patented sweetener called HEYLO is being touted as a breakthrough product that could finally replace traditional sugar, according to Food Navigator. The sweetener is made from water-extracted stevia and acacia fibre, also known as acacia gum or gum arabic.
The idea that sugar could be a fundamental cause of the global obesity and diabetes epidemics, with deleterious effects on the human body that go beyond just empty calories, should be considered seriously again, argues journalist and author Gary Taubes in the January 2018 editon of The British Medical Journal.
Barry Callebaut and Nestlé have partnered in the world commercial premiere of Ruby chocolate - unveiled in September 2017 by Callebaut as the fourth type of chocolate next to Dark, Milk and White.
The company is not the source of the listeriosis outbreak, but has nonetheless tightened its poultry-handling standards....
Food manufacturers face unique challenges on a daily basis. An experienced food industrialist outlines these and some ways to deal with them...
In the past month‚ another 167 people have contracted deadly listeriosis‚ bringing the total number of confirmed cases in South Africa to 717. Food scientists are now calling it the worst documented listeriosis outbreak in global history.
Israels' Lampados International reports growing demand for its innovative Liteez sweetener — a vegan, egg-free 3D meringue kiss sweetener for hot drinks - and which a leading UK food-bev website, www.foodbev.com, has named as among its most interesting new ingredient launches of 2017.
Of the several claims of “anti-science” that clutter national and international debates these days, none can be more flagrantly clear than the campaign against modern agricultural technology, most specifically the use of molecular techniques to create genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
In a packaged-food industry suffering from weak demand and shifting consumer tastes, there’s still one safe bet: salty snacks.
Dubbed the “Holy Grail” of bacon that is “made without nitrites or other nasties”, Naked Bacon will be on UK shelves shortly amid a fanfare of claims to be revolutionising the British staple meat.
Unilever has received a binding offer from private equity player, KKR, to purchase its global Spreads business for €6.825bn ($8.1bn) on a cash-free, debt-free basis. Unilever’s Spreads business includes brands such as Becel, Flora, Country Crock, Blue Band, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama and ProActiv.
Firmenich, the world’s largest privately-owned company in the fragrance and flavour business, is acquiring Flavourome, its long-time agent in South Africa. No value to the deal has been mentioned.
Pioneer Foods is adding the UK-based granola brand, Lizi’s, to its stable of well-known breakfast cereals.
After football and bullfighting, one of the best-known cultural things about Spain and its people is their most peculiar routine of eating dinner late, at around 10 at night.