FOOD FOR KIDS: A chat with child nutritionists
With kids spending so much of their day in school while also being heavily influenced by their parents' eating habits, how can we get kids to make healthy food and beverage choices?
Archives for September 7, 2018
Sales of pumpkin products, not pumpkin spice, hit an all-time high this season
Returning seasonal flavors such as pumpkin-flavored-anything tend to give products and food service outlets featuring the autumnal flavor a spike in sales as early as a month before the official start of fall.
General Mills trials geo-targeted delivery-on-demand with Häagen-Dazs
General Mills is delivering innovation in mobile e-commerce technology through Häagen-Dazs NOW, an app that allows consumers to benefit from geo-targeted delivery-on-demand.
‘We could replace the Petri dish’: FreshDetect's disruptive food safety tech
FreshDetect has developed a hand-held device that accurately measures bacterial contamination in food quickly and inexpensively. According to managing director Oliver Dietrich the innovation “creates a new dimension in food safety”.
FDA will not require ‘added sugars’ call-out on pure honey, maple syrup
After industry slammed FDA for proposing pure maple syrup and jars of honey list ‘added sugars’ on their updated Nutrition Facts panel, the agency has done an about face and will no longer the controversial declaration on the products when ‘packaged as...
Soup-to-Nuts Podcast: As plant-based eating takes off, is the end of animal agriculture near?
At the start of the year, industry experts predicted 2018 would be the year of the plant-based diet, and as we enter the fourth quarter sales and growth data suggest that the prediction is coming to fruition – but does it also mean that the end of animal...
Flavoured jackfruit snack start-up Jacked promises to shake up the 'dead' dried fruit category
While people know jackfruit as a plant-based meat alternative, they are less familiar with it as a healthy snack. 'The dried fruit market is also not that interesting in the UK," says newcomer Jacked Foods. "We’ve created a quirky brand in what is...
Low-calorie sweeteners do not trigger sweet cravings, says study
Beverages sweetened with low-calorie sweeteners do not increase total energy intake any more than water when drunk with a meal, according to an industry-funded study.
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Global battle against ASF steps up a gear
Epidemic may be too strong a word, but African Swine Fever (ASF) is spreading across the world and nobody’s quite sure how to stop it.
Beef + Lamb New Zealand argues against zero carbon assumptions
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) has said it “fundamentally disagrees” with assumptions made on how to achieve zero carbon for sheep and beef farmers.
Meat Promotion Wales launches new one-stop shop website
Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) has launched a new corporate website designed as a one-stop shop for information on the Welsh red meat industry.
Irish farmers call for sensible approach to sheep situation
The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) chairman Sean Dennehy has said the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) needs to come to its senses to not damage the sheep sector.