News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
ISM/ProSweets 2017
Daelmans has been making the caramel waffles for over 100 years and today, is the worldwide market leader, producing several million of the speciality biscuits in its bakeries daily.
The European Commission has reported the largest annual level of agri-food exports ever in the EU: are new international trade agreements behind the boost?
Europe’s livestock exports to the Middle East are under fire after a clandestine investigation revealed “horrific” footage detailing animal abuse, including alleged torture of cows in Lebanon.
French firm Cémoi has introduced its own chocolate range containing cocoa from its controlled cocoa fermentation project.
New Zealand supplement and health food manufacturers are likely targets for merger and acquisition activity over the next year, with private equity firms, notably from China, increasingly looking to splash the cash.
Calcium tops the list of minerals consumed by pregnant Chinese women via supplements and fortified foods, followed by Zinc and then Iron.
Through its Nutritional Foods arm, Japanese dairy giant Morinaga is entering the US dairy market with the launch of its ALOVE aloe vera yogurt, which will debut at the Expo West trade show in Anaheim, CA.
The United Nations’ agricultural funding agency will provide more than half of the US$62m set aside to expand commercial agricultural markets for 75,000 smallholder households and developing better links between producers and buyers.
A ban on United Kingdom lamb to Kuwait has been lifted, following a new deal worth £15 million ($18m).
A slim majority of British consumers are prepared to change their diets to help reduce the impacts of climate change, but few would ever switch to vegetarian, pescatarian or vegan diets.
UK-based food packaging manufacturer Linpac is to invest in what it called "cutting-edge technology" at its factory in Pontivy, France.
The respective size of the companies inevitably invites ‘David vs Goliath’ analogies, but tiny HPP baby food maker Once Upon a Farm may well prevail in a trademark dispute with CPG giant Abbott Laboratories, according to legal experts.
Kazakhstan’s pig population has fallen by 6.4% or 831,300 head between 2015 and 2016, according to data from the State Statistical Agency.
Americans’ love affair with protein shows no signs of cooling in the coming years with a compound annual growth rate projected at a steady 5.6% for the next three years, bringing sales to a predicted $39.08 billion, according to Markets and Markets...
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Senomyx has identified a new zero-calorie, high-potency sweetening compound found in trace levels in monk fruit, which it plans to produce on a commercial scale via fermentation.
FoodFutureCo - a food business accelerator program targeting mission-driven companies in scale-up mode – has unveiled its second cohort, spanning spring water, local produce, kids’ snacks and fermented foods.
The Fairtrade Foundation has launched a new, hard hitting marketing strategy following research showing that 23% of UK consumers “never think about who produces their food and drink”.
For the second time this year it is time to pull up a stool (no, not that kind...) to the lab bench and take a swab from the petri dish of food safety and quality research.
Wild mushrooms should not be picked or eaten due to the health risks they pose, according to the Food Safety Information Council.
Hershey plans to reduce its global workforce by 15%, mainly outside of the US, under a new supply chain efficiency program.