Study: Kids' 'pester power' can promote healthy family eating habits
Could children's pester power (the influence kids have over their family’s eating behaviors) be a force for promoting positive and healthy eating behaviors at home?
Archives for August 6, 2020
DouxMatok gears up for US launch, tests next-generation enhanced sugar using fiber as a carrier
DouxMatok, the Israeli firm behind patented technology that makes sugar taste sweeter, has struck a deal with a North American sugar refiner to manufacture commercial quantities of its ‘enhanced’ sugar, with the first products containing the sugar likely...
JBS hits back at deforestation claims
JBS has defended its efforts to eliminate deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest after criticism from environmental campaigners led the UK’s largest supermarket Tesco to attempt to cut links with the meat giant.
Ice cream start-up Gemelli on surviving COVID-19: ‘Gemelli was born from resilience’
The coronavirus crisis has hurt many food and beverage SMEs, reliant on out-of-home channels, particularly hard. We spoke to the founders of French ice cream start-up Gemelli to hear how this company has responded.
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REFIT of the EU Nutrition and Health Claim regulation: Outcomes and perspectives
What does the EC’s fitness and performance check on Nutrition and Health Claims regulation suggest? Katia Merten-Lentz shares her insight.
Webinar on demand: Investors expect more for less from entrepreneurs fundraising, but are open to new deals
Despite uncertainties about the pandemic, investors continue to fund food and beverage businesses, but they are more closely scrutinizing opportunities, holding entrepreneurs to higher standards and offering less for more than they did before the...
Seaweed extract shows gut health and immunity benefits in athletes
In a world first, Australian researchers have uncovered the potential for a seaweed extract to improve the gut health and immune system of high performance athletes.
Large study concludes Vitamin D does not protect against depression
Vitamin D supplementation does not protect against depression in adults, according results from one of the largest ever studies of its kind included nearly 20,000 men and women.
Bright impressions: Health and wellness trend to drive momentum of natural and clean colours in APAC
The health and wellness trend sweeping Asia-Pacific looks set to offer a boost to the natural and clean colours sector – which still lags behind Europe and North America.
Going for gold: The Product Makers uses sugarcane extract to create gold-coloured chocolate
Australian flavour and ingredient company The Product Makers (TPM) has used its sugarcane extract (Saccharum officinarum) to create a gold coloured chocolate product, citing potential for its use as a colouring agent and as an ingredient for healthier...
Flavoured gin disruption: New Zealand’s Scapegrace naturally coloured black gin to land in Asia
New Zealand’s premium gin company Scapegrace Distilling is set to export its naturally coloured black gin in Asia, with the first shipments expected to land in Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Japan this month.