News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
While some meal kit brands are doing better than others, the subscription based home delivery model underpinning them is fundamentally flawed, claims the new owner of Chef’d, which abruptly ceased operations in mid-July.
Business transaction
Hershey has sold Golden Monkey to Henan Yuxiang Food Technology Company (河南御翔食品科技有限公司) four years after it acquired the Shanghai-based confectionery brand for $577m.
The new owners of the assets of Chef’d - which abruptly ceased operations earlier this month citing "unexpected circumstances” with funding - say they plan to focus efforts on building the Chef’d brand in the retail meal kit space.
Leveraging its established capabilities and market presence in flour milling, Ardent Mills is betting big on ancient grains with a new bolt-on business unit dubbed The Annex focused on scaling its supply of specialty grains for broader industry use.
New research reveals most Americans believe the government is “doing a poor job across the board on food and ag policy,” and should do more to ensure everyone has access to enough healthy food and to support the farmers who feed the country.
The consumer fear of the unknown that spurred the first wave of the ‘clean-label’ movement and the rejection of unfamiliar-sounding ingredients is evolving into a more sophisticated curiosity about what they consume – requiring manufacturers to take a...
The healthy fat profile of flax oil, high in omega-3 fatty acids, means manufacturers have traditionally focused on this. But the seeds also contain protein, fibre and lignin, all of which are interesting 'stealth health' ingredients, the company says.
Legal ruling
Court of Justice of the European Union gets last word in KitKat shape dispute after Nestlé failed to to prove that the shape of the bar has become distinctive of their goods across the EU.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled on the so-called new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs). It said crops obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs as the techniques and methods of mutagenesis alter the genetic material of a plant in a way that does not...
DuPont Nutrition & Health has announced the opening of its new innovation center in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, later this summer.
US plant-based business Beyond Meat has completed a one-year review process to secure non-GMO verification across all of its lines.
Argentina’s Ministry of Agriculture has revealed it has shipped 200 kilos of beef to the Japanese market.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has offered US$12 billion for farmers who have been impacted by retaliatory tariffs placed on the country.
news in brief
US pork producer Smithfield Foods has moved to debunk media reports that it has stopped production in the Virginia town of Smithfield.
Demand for products containing nuts is on the rise, in no small part thanks to a growing awareness of the difference between ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ fats.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed the mandatory labelling of blended edible vegetable oils to indicate the exact percentage of the blend on the front of the pack.
What’s in a letter? A great deal, if Malaysia is anything to go on, as the newly elected Pakatan Harapan (PH) government rolls back the hated GST sales tax system to replace it with an SST — a move which few people really understand, but everyone seems...
Nestlé has launched a new Nescafé Dolce Gusto capsule production line in Vietnam, which will use locally-grown coffee beans top process 2,500 tonnes of coffee per year — the equivalent of around 130 million capsules.
As a trade war between Washington and Beijing gathers steam, some of the best known foreign food and beverage brands have been finding themselves on the back foot in their own battles in China.
If plant-based ‘milk’ is keeping some parts of the dairy industry – and the FDA commissioner – awake at night, what might milk producers make of the latest innovation to emerge from Silicon Valley: animal-free dairy (casein and whey made without cows)?