News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
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News in brief
As inflationary pressures continue to strain household budgets, Kroger has launched a new private label line called Smart Way spanning multiple categories from canned vegetables to napkins to help shoppers more easily identify “opening price point items.”
The first 1000 days of life—from conception to two years of age—represents a crucial period in which maternal diet and other exposures might influence children’s health.
BIOHM has unveiled a number of services for gut health companies and developers looking to advance their offerings.
Wicked Kitchen – a plant-powered brand with a distinct culinary bent developed by chefs Derek and Chad Sarno – has acquired plant-based seafood brand Good Catch (also founded by the Sarno brothers), which CEO Pete Speranza says is “100% accretive” and...
There’s a lot of buzz about plant-based innovation. But according to Julian Mellentin, of consultancy New Nutrition Business, much of this noise comes down to the ‘echo chamber’ created by media, consultants and the investment community. Is plant-based...
Steakholder Foods has coined the ‘first-of-its kind’ and ‘richly marbled’ structured meat product Omakase Beef Morsels.
Operators across the EU agri-food chain are struggling to keep businesses going in the face of rapidly rising input costs and extreme weather, according to industry associations representing the sector.
A UK-wide consultation on the amount of folic acid to be added to flour to help prevent neural tube defects in the womb is now underway.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is an agreement to build a facility for the cultivation and production of microalgae-based protein and related products for the food and beverage industry.
A Japanese-style sauce brand with a history of personal connection with customers has parlayed that authenticity into a $13m cash infusion in a funding round led by a prominent consumer brands investment firm.
More than four years after Nestlé sold its US confectionery business to Ferrero, the CPG giant is dipping a toe back into the bite-sized sweets segment but through a better-for-you “snacking” lens with the national rollout of Rallies Nut Butter Bombs.
The co-op’s new B2B wellbeing nutrition brand will enable Fonterra to branch out further into non-dairy ingredients and solutions.
Healthier snacks outfit Lecka believes that its all-natural snacks, localised flavours and sustainable packaging will help it attract the attention of millennial consumers across various markets in the South East Asian region.