News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Food ingredient company National Starch said this week that in response to increasing demand it has expanded its capacity to produce cold-water-swelling (CWS) or instant starches at its Indianapolis manufacturing facility.
A recent test of 26 nutrition powders in the US showed that 24 of them lived up to their claims regarding carbohydrate, fats and proteins. But the study by independent testers ConsumerLab.com showed that some products contained unlabelled ingredients.
Nearly one year since the implementation of EU directive 2000/63/EC requiring the elimination of cysteine derived from human hair in foods, many manufacturers in Europe are still unaware of the difference between synthetic cysteine and cysteine of...
A new ingredient to help ice-cream developers in the physical handling process has been designed by scientists in Australia. Researchers at the Food Science Australia laboratory claim to have come up with high fat cream powders which not only taste...
UK company the Big Food Group, the recently renamed Iceland, on Wednesday ruled out a rights issue but warned that the costs of a £375m (E607.9m) spending plan would weigh on profits in future years, the Financial Times reports.
Agricultural biotechnology is arguably one of the most controversial scientific issues of recent decades. Agbiotech products might have the potential to feed an increasingly hungry world, but it is also weighed down by doubts over its influence on...
ConAgra Foods, America's second largest food company, is reportedly in talks to sell a large chunk of its fresh beef and pork operations, a move that analysts have been urging because the operations have been a drag on earnings.