News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Tate & Lyle has launched a new sweetener solution for dairy desserts, which claims to allow manufacturers to cut around a third of calories and half of total sugars from their product formulations.
Family meals remain a top priority for Americans, despite today's hectic lifestyles, according to a new survey.
The antioxidants vitamin E and alpha-lipoic acid slowed the loss of sight from retinitis pigmentosa in mouse models - yet more evidence linking antioxidants to improved eye health.
A vast majority of Asian visitors to the UK believe that the food is safe and is great to eat, according to a survey by the country's food manufacturers.
Britain's leading supermarket Tesco is being accused of stalling the Competition Commission's (CC) grocery sector inquiry by asking for extra time to provide evidence of its business practices.
Government subsidies can be useful instruments in correcting market failures and working towards social objectives but can also distort trade, warned the WTO.
After six months of sliding sales, rising production costs and now a devastating factory fire, Northern Foods' chairman has warned the year's first-half profits will be dented.
Europe's leading food manufacturers and retailers are expected to announce they plan to shun soy grown illegally in the Amazon that is resulting in depletion of the rainforest.
Blue California is introducing a new, water-soluble form of Biolut lutein made possible by microencapsulation technology, which extends the uses of the company's branded ingredient to chewable, effervescent and uncoated supplements, foods, beverages...
A Milan banker linked to the collapse of Italian dairy firm Parmalat has been found dead, after disappearing on his way back from a meeting of conservative Catholic group Opus Dei.
Leading kids' entertainment brand Nickelodeon is to team up with a number of US food firms to roll out new children-friendly fruit and vegetable products featuring some of its popular cartoon characters.
Weekly comment
Functional foods are generally defined as products imbued with additional nutrients with health-promoting properties. But the industry needs to be wary of foods that present no actual health benefit from piggy-backing on the popularity of the category...