News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
DISPATCHES FROM INTERBEV 2012, LAS VEGAS
Speaking to BeverageDaily.com at InterBev in Las Vegas, Euromonitor International analysts Claire Moulin and Jonas Feliciano characterize the world’s shifting taste in soft drinks in art history terms.
A snack bar next to the Musée de Louvre in Paris will be the site of the first outlet selling products in edible packaging from WikiCell Designs, the company behind the concept.
An EU funded project is aiming to deliver an alternative technology for the dehydration of heat sensitive food through variable frequency microwave and vacuum drying.
Consumption of soy products does not prevent the onset of hot flushes and night sweats in women entering menopause, according to new research data.
Fonterra has announced concrete plans to step up milk production in China after the New Zealand dairy giant signed an investment agreement to develop two more large farms in Hebei province.
Unitherm Food Systems has developed a healthier, faster and more sustainable process for industrial food smoking applications using infra-red cooking.
A scandal has erupted in Russia over the revelation that prisoners were fed pork contaminated with African swine fever.
Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Carlos Brito says his firm is ‘not happy’ with continued US market share losses for Budweiser, and expressed slight disappointment given rising brand health scores.
Nisin, a common food preservative, could slow or stop the development of certain types of cancer, according to new research.
Bright Food closed its purchase of Weetabix today, but one analyst has reiterated the challenge it will face driving the iconic cereal brand in China.
The New Zealand parliament's health select committee has said that natural products should carry a label showing the basis of claims being made for the product.
Making a profit in India's packaged foods market may not be easy, but the at the moment it represents a tantalising opportunity that food companies cannot afford to ignore.
A blend of spinach and spring mix has been linked to an outbreak of E.coli O157:H7 which has so far sickened 16 people.
Hain Celestial’s Greek yogurt brand Greek Gods has been shielded from the price wars raging in the Greek yogurt category and continues to go from strength to strength, with sales surging by 35% in the latest quarter, say bosses.
There are “multiple opportunities” to take upmarket New York City-based organic cold-pressed juice cleanse brand BluePrint into new categories, according to new owner Hain Celestial.
Unilever and Walmart are hoping to drive increased production of certified sustainable palm oil, as they unveiled new purchasing commitments at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) annual meeting in Singapore last week.
Using tagatose to sweeten food and drink products has taken a step forward as Korean scientists report the ‘first quantitative data on the relationship between the sweetness of tagatose and sucrose over a range of sweetness levels commonly encountered in...
European farming unions have rejected proposals by the new Cypriot presidency of the European Commissions to cut €50bn from the initial proposal on the CAP budget 2014-2020.
US COMMODITIES CORNER
In part two of his October dairy commodities breakdown, MilkPrice blogger John Geuss gives DairyReporter.com the latest on cheese and butter demand and quick look ahead to November, December and the coming year.
One Australian public health heavyweight has gone on the record to say that it is up to the federal government to tackle the junk food industry the same way it took on tobacco.
Food and beverage companies have made significant changes in the way to they market their products to children as a result of industry-wide self-regulatory initiatives, according to new research from Australia.
Nestlé's $11.85bn (€9bn) acquisition of Pfizer Nutrition has been given the go-ahead by anti-trust authorities in China – taking the “strategic” takeover a step closer to completion.
Glanbia has unveiled a €21m whey protein isolate (WPI) investment at its Dairy Ingredients Ireland (DII) Ballyragget facility – the Irish dairy giant’s latest expansion effort driven by the up-coming milk quota abolition.
The energy drink market is the fastest growing segment of the European soft drinks industry, so how are newcomers looking to get in on the action?