29 Mar COMMENT: Food labelling – Is it true, misleading or an outright lie?
Here's an opinion piece that should resonate with both food marketers and consumers...
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29 Mar A scientist with a fascinating story? Some tips on how to make it soar
It’s hard to pin down what makes one press release, statement or event more newsworthy than the next. Journalists use differing sets of news values to decide whether they’re interested in a specific story and must then convince their editors, whose titles face increasing competition in an information-rich world.
15 Mar Stellenbosh University researchers develop easy method to detect SA honey fraud
Food scientists and researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Sapienza University of Rome have developed a quick and user-friendly method that South African producers and distributors of honey can use to detect whether the products they are selling is the real thing or not.
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12 Mar Taking Campbell’s on a fresh food buying spree
With major acquisitions of organic baby food and fresh carrot companies, the iconic processed, canned soup company is trying to become a strong advocate for fresh food and ingredient transparency.
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12 Mar Barbarians at the plate: 3G missed Unilever but its methods are spreading
The investors who own Kraft Heinz are upending the food industry...
12 Mar How Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal Musk is disrupting farming with ‘food revolution’
Kimbal Musk (brother of Elon of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX fame) is trying to change the way we eat by creating what he calls a "real food revolution".
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11 Mar Do smaller plates make you eat less? No
The UK's Channel 4’s is running a programme called Food Unwrapped. The programme covers two topics of interest to those in the health and food industries; a close look at portion sizes and plate sizes.
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10 Mar What’s the fuss over bone broth?
Bone broth is the latest darling of the health food world - but it's as old as cooking itself. It's stock, for heaven's sake!
...10 Mar The vegetable technology gap
The healthiest foods of all are lacking innovation. Historically, the bulk of agricultural research in the US and elsewhere. has been focused on staple crops, with little help given to efforts to increase yield, shelf life, and convenience for things like leafy greens and squishy berries. Given that government guidelines suggest we should pig out on such produce to stay healthy, perhaps it's time to dangle a larger carrot in front of vegetable innovators?
10 Mar In praise of millet, sorghum, teff and yes, quinoa
The spread of exotic grains is evidence that globalisation works — the symptom of a happy trend, and not something to be feared, rebutted or destroyed as much populist thinking today would have it. A great thought leader article from The Economist...
08 Mar Fighting back for bread
With excess carbs in the Western diet increasingly under scrutiny, leading bakery ingredients supplier Anchor Yeast has gone on the PR offensive to illustrate that SA bread offers great nutritional and price value in every slice.
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08 Mar ‘Authentic food is not what you think it is’
Americans of a certain social class love nothing more than an “authentic” food experience. And who could be against wanting a more authentic, genuine food experience? So glad you asked. In fact, authenticity is an illusion, and a highly overrated one. [A must-read essay. Ed]
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05 Mar Senomyx unveils ‘natural’ sweetener breakthrough
US biotech firm, Senomyx has identified a new zero-calorie, high-potency sweetening compound found in trace levels in monk fruit, which it plans to produce on a commercial scale via fermentation.
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04 Mar How to make eggs without any chickens
The future of food doesn't have to involve animals...
04 Mar This oven could change how we cook
By using radio frequency technology, it can prepare all the components of a dinner, at the same time, just right.
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03 Mar Food safety wisdom from the maintenance department
Here are some food safety tips from an engineer, one with years and years of experience in the trenches of food companies. Good advice from Pieter de Waal, a contributor to FoodFocus.co.za, SA's new go-to website for all issues around compliance.
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03 Mar Fresh produce innovation winners from Fruit Logistica expo 2017
Trade visitors to FRUIT LOGISTICA expo in Berlin in February voted this year's Innovation Award to Dutch technology that delays pinking in fresh cut lettuce.
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03 Mar The first PAUL bakery opens in South Africa
The famous French bakery-bistro has opened its first South African doors in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg...
02 Mar Checkers takes aim at Woolies’ convenience food market
Checkers, part of the country’s largest supermarket group Shoprite Holdings, has mounted an onslaught on Woolworths’ lead in the convenience food market. Its mission is deceptively simple: “Match the taste and quality of the market leader at better value”.
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02 Mar Jackfruit seeds could help ease looming cocoa bean shortage
A new study has found that compounds found in jackfruit seeds produce many of the same aromas as processed cocoa beans and are a potentially cheap, abundant substitute for use in chocolate manufacturing.
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