News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
A new Turkish government report shows that the nation’s consumers are increasingly favouring the mass grocery retail (MGR) sector, while rising disposable incomes also mean an accompanying shift towards packaged, frozen and processed foods.
MGP Ingredients returned to profitability in fiscal 2010 on the back of higher sales of food grade alcohol, the company has said, after sustaining heavy losses for the previous two years.
With the UK’s Food Standards Agency preparing to routinely analyse food products for their sweetener content, FoodNavigator.com takes a look at the uptake of different sweeteners over the past five years.
Campbell Soup Company is considering making a move on the biscuit arm of the British-based firm United Biscuits, according to press reports.
A greater appreciation of the impact of food costs on food choices is necessary for more effective nutrition policy, claims a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Further research is needed into the use of in vitro digestion models in the development of foods, claims new research published in Food Chemistry.
A new 20 percent tariff on American chocolate and gum being shipped into Mexico has prompted an outcry from US confectioners, as the Mexican government has introduced a raft of new tariffs on American products.
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) is embarking on a project to understand people’s attitudes and behaviours to food issues, with the aim of better understanding how these views change between population groups and over time.