News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
While stevia is beginning to take off in a number of baked goods and snack categories in the US, Asian and South American markets, some other emerging ‘natural’ sweeteners look ready to take it on in the segment, claims Datamonitor.
Brazilian processing giant Marfrig has launched a 'water footprint' project to monitor water usage in the production chain and improve sustainability and efficiency.
US-based company Meijer has acquired Bareman’s dairy and announced it will invest $8m (€6m) to expand the current plant.
A retail price war in Australia and New Zealand hit Fonterra’s consumer sales hard in the first half of 2012, while the firm said a strategy refresh will see it refocus its efforts on lucrative Chinese, Asian and Latin American markets.
The Nutrition Society and Cambridge University Press have added to their stable of nutrition titles with a just-launched open access journal.
The increase in the number of resistant E.coli cases in the UK is “almost certainly due” to the level of antibiotic use on farms, a report by the Soil Association has said.
Taste issues and high cost repeatedly have been raised as possible obstacles to widespread acceptance of stevia-derived sweeteners, but one of the many new suppliers entering the market claims that these are no longer the hurdles they once were.
American consumers’ favorite flavors are changing, and while fruity flavors are gaining in popularity, superfruits are on the way out, according to Dr. Elizabeth Sloan, president of Sloan Trends.
Dispatches from IFT Wellness 2012
The term ‘antioxidant’ should be banished from food labels and replaced with more specific claims about the health benefits of the phytonutrients and other ingredients in question, according to one leading academic.
Enzyme manufacturer, Biocatalysts, has broadened its microbial dairy enzyme range with a product designed as an alternative to porcine pancreatin, a pig pancreas derivative, for dairy flavour applications.
The British meat industry has expressed concern over the publication of alleged bullying of meat inspectors by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
US manufacturer Peace Cereal has received certification from the Non-GMO Project’s Product Verification Program.
UK food safety authorities have issued a warning to food processors over the use of food grade chemicals from a Northern Ireland-based distributor following the death of a woman in Italy.
US researchers have developed the ‘El Dorado’ of foodborne Salmonella detection and outbreak prevention - using antibody-coated gold nanoparticles.