News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The UK Food Standards Agency Chief Scientist Robin May says urgent progress is needed on a unified eco-labelling system so that the food system can be set on a path to sustainability.
Food safety analytical scientists from across Africa have highlighted ‘critical gaps’ in ‘physical and human’ capacity throughout the continent.
Differences in culture, language and enforcement policies between European countries mean consumers are failing to understand health claims on food packets.
Plant-based ingredients supplier Merit Functional Foods is ready to meet industry demand from food and beverage manufacturers for its pea and canola proteins produced out of its now fully-scaled and commercially-ready 94,000-square-foot facility in...
Belgian-Dutch retailer Ahold Delhaize, parent company of Food Lion, Giant, FreshDirect, Stop&Shop, and Peapod in the US market, is heavily investing in its omnichannel strategy to meet consumers' at-home eating needs.
A coalition of European health, medical, consumer and family organisations has called on the European Union to adopt legislation to protect children from the ‘harmful impacts’ of the ‘widespread, ubiquitous and insidious’ marketing of nutritionally poor...
Bobo’s is embarking on a major capacity expansion to meet demand for its baked oat bars, bites, and toaster pastries, with a new ‘mega-bakery’ facility set to open in summer 2022 in Loveland, Colorado, that will consolidate manufacturing and warehousing...
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a US consumer advocacy organization, is urging the country’s top food retailers and sugary drink manufacturers to remove sugar-laden drinks from impulse buy locations in stores.
Bath University researchers have put forward an intriguing theory as to how the gut microbiome communicates with the immune system in work that further defines their roles in the onset of Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease.
Indian nutraceutical company BodyFirst Wellness Nutrition is on a functional foods innovation spree, having added organic herbal powder sprinklers, beaded probiotic straws, protein and fibre bars, and protein-enriched peanut butter into its product range.
Coca-Cola soft drink reformulation, Nestle flexitarian recipes, South Korea's edible insect push and more feature in this edition of Trend Tracker.
China dairy giant Yili has revealed that it is ramping up its focus on cheese and plant-based products in addition to its conventional dairy items in response to growing consumer demand.
Researchers from the University of New South Wales in Sydney have developed a machine learning methodology to predict dietary fibre content in commonly available packaged foods.
A trial funded by Nestle has found that infant formula enriched with milk-derived oligosaccharides (MOS), a prebiotic, has helped to improve gut microbiota in babies, such as increasing the abundance of Bifidobacterium.