News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Israeli cultured meat (aka 'clean' meat) start-up Future Meat Technologies reckons it can bring prices down from around $800/kilo today to as little as $8/kilo for its cell-cultured meat in six to eight months.
Tetra Pak has launched an Extrusion Wheel that produces stick ice cream products with large-sized inclusions, such as whole nuts, real fruit segments, or cookie dough chunks at the highest capacity on the market.
After establishing a following in the athletic channel including with NFL and MLB teams, 100% cherry juice brand CHERRiSH is making its way into hundreds of convenience stores to compete alongside the likes of POM Wonderful and other premium juices.
Teaming up with Ocado – a British firm using automated distribution centers to fulfil online grocery orders – could allow Kroger to “potentially leapfrog both Walmart and Amazon in this space,” argues one retail commentator.
Clean label seems to be as commonplace of a term as the contentious ‘natural’ moniker with many food and beverages retooling their ingredient formulations to conform to this vague industry expectation. According to Flavorchem, one thing is very clear,...
Miguel Zavala has been promoted to Vice President of the LATAM region for Bell Flavors & Fragrances after helping to grow the company’s Mexico City region over the past two years.
As Brazil slowly emerges from its four-year economic recession – the worst in the country’s history, economists say – there is a fundamental and intrinsic growth opportunity in most food and beverage categories but it remains a challenging environment...
A cross-sectional, population-based survey assessed in the Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health (ELANS) found a high consumption of total and added sugar intake among 9,218 individuals from eight Latin American countries with Argentina...
Corona leads the throng of beer brands that dominate the 2018 BrandZ Top 50 most valuable Latin American Brands list, and with only three food companies ranked it begs the question: what can industry learn from the likes of Corona and Skol?
After helping 2017's winners generate growth worth €10 million, PepsiCo's accelerator programme Nutrition Greenhouse is looking for 10 more start-ups for the 2018 round.
Echinococcus multilocularis and Toxoplasma gondii are the most important foodborne parasites (FBP) in terms of public health for Europe, according to a study.
UK market leader in infant snacks, Organix 'savoury finger food for babies’ range is part of its junk-busting mission. "Some infant snack products contain more than 30 ingredients and that is not really necessary," says the managing director.
The Australian Government has implemented a major overhaul of the live sheep trade with the introduction of the McCarthy Review.
UK-based continental meat supplier Winterbotham Darby has claimed to be the first company to gain accreditation for pig welfare across its European farms.
Brazilian poultry processor Aurora has urged the Government to re-establish international trade relations or risk further plant suspensions following the planned closure of two of its plants in the Santa Catarina region.
High costs and a lack of robust and reproducible results are reasons why 'precision' or personalised nutrition is not yet a feasible way to prevent type 2 diabetes.
A new Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) will be launched in July to bring together industry, academics and the community to tackle the country's mounting food waste problem.
A new Hong Kong vegan brand, Right Treat, has introduced its first product in Hong Kong — a plant-based pork alternative called Omnipork or “new pork” in Cantonese.
Traditional beer manufacturers Asahi, Suntory and Kirin are extending their presence into the canned cocktail market.