News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
A new deal is set to result in a huge injection of palm oil from certified sustainable sources into Europe and could spell the death knell for green certificates, said New Britain Palm Oil Limited.
The French Nutrinet- Santé study has published its first results on snacking habits and their impact on nutritional balance.
An investigation into the cause of an industrial accident at a DSM plant in Italy that killed three workers eight months ago remains ongoing, the company said.
Imperial Sugar saw its share price jump to a 52-week high in after hours trading on Wednesday, following better than expected profits in Q2, partly due to higher sugar prices.
Two of the nation's biggest food manufacturers have unveiled bold new sustainability targets with Campbell Soup pledging to halve the environmental footprint of its product portfolio by 2020 and Kraft promising to slash energy and water consumption 15...
France’s Nutrionix as closed a €4m deal with investors Seventure Partners, SHAM and Business Angels, which will help it tap growth potential in salt reduction.
Cognitive function is the functional foods category where the gap between interest and buying behavior is the widest, suggesting there are big bucks to be made, but only if firms can come up with products consumers can trust.
Different sweeteners may affect the release of satiety hormones in the gut in different ways, claim researchers writing in Food Chemistry, who suggest their work could lead to development of novel ways to control appetite.
The European Parliament has urged Brussels to come up with new measures on animal cloning as a “matter of urgency” to secure consumers rights after a failure to reach an agreement on the issue six weeks ago derailed the entire novel foods regulation.
'Free from' foods are still a niche sector, but strong growth means multinationals will inevitably get in on the game, says Mintel's Lynn Dornblaser.