News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
South Africa-based Green Cell Technologies has signed an exclusive global licensing agreement with Citrosuco - one of the world’s largest orange juice producers - to use its Dynamic Cellular Disruption (DCD) technology: a novel process that breaks up...
Shopping reinvented, healthy living & middle-class retreat are three retail megatrends to watch as Latin America creeps out of its economic rut and consumer purchase drivers start to shift, says Euromonitor International.
Leeds-based brewer North Brewing Co has secured £96,000 worth of orders from China, following a successful trade mission at one of the country’s biggest trade shows.
Flowers Foods – producers of Nature’s Own, Wonder, and Dave's Killer Bread – experienced widespread operational disruption in its second quarter due to ‘inferior yeast’, which needed an “extraordinary effort” to restore operations to normal.
News in brief
Aldi is putting an emphasis on fresh, organic, and easy-to-prepare options as it remodels stores, and says “20% of products in every store will be new compared to last year,” with the fresh selection increasing by 40%.
This week, Tesco became the first major supermarket to sell cans of water. There were gushing appraisals of the move to “forget plastic”. On-the-go drinking options “just got way more sustainable”, noted the Huffington Post, citing the fact that...
Danish coffee group Peter Larsen Kaffe has established Northern Europe’s first coffee farm with the aim of developing new products that unlock the high nutritional value of coffee plants.
Meat processor Tyson Foods has divested more of its bakery firms with the sale of its pizza crust business as part of its move towards a protein focus.
Miratorg’s beef facility, located in the European region of Russia, has suffered a huge net loss in 2017, despite significant growth in production and revenue.
Russian meat processors have been found to be distributing meat infected with African swine fever (ASF) and even in some cases with highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI).
Livestock Wise and the National Sheep Association are among 34 organisations who have written to the UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to save smaller abattoirs from closing.
Global ingredients supplier and consumer foods business Kerry Group is leveraging its unique consumer insights to make sure its business is one step ahead of emerging trends in the F&B space. CEO Edmond Scanlon shares some insights.
German poultry giant PHW Group is investing in US-based vegan seafood start-up Good Catch in what it describes as a “strategic partnership” to offer plant-based seafood alternatives to the international market.
The European Union has the “most stringent and controlled” food chain in the world, the bloc’s health and food safety chief suggested after food safety regulators found more than 96% of food is within legal limits for pesticide residue.
Google ‘mangosteen juice’ and you’ll find a bewildering array of super-premium-priced beverages and supplements (some of which claim, with limited evidence,* that the fruit – which contains polyphenols called xanthones - can do everything from reduce...