News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Consumer concern in South Africa about the potential seeping of harmful compounds from PVC plastic into the food which it is wrapped around has prompted a shake-up in the country's leading plastics packaging group, Astrapak, said CE Ray Crewe-Brown.
The sugar-laden diet of Mexicans is putting their health in jeopardy, but concerns over taste are hindering the uptake of reduced sugar products, according to a recent survey
Danisco, the Danish company which claims to be the world's leading supplier of flavours to the coffee industry, has launched a new concept - Danisco Seasonal Coffee Flavours.
Food group Nestle has reiterated its interest in parts of the functional food unit put up for sale by Novartis after a top executive said he would like to have the Ovaltine brand in Nestle's portfolio.
DSM Food Specialties is highlighting a new range of SavorKey yeast extract-based flavours offering a boiled beef and boiled chicken taste at this week's IFIA exhibition in Tokyo, Japan.
Cerebos Pacific, the Singapore-based company best known for its BRAND'S Essence of Chicken brand, has launched a new health supplement which contains no essence of chicken, the first non-chicken based product made by the company.
A group of European researchers has been working on the heat and chemical treatment of vegetables to develop a range of hypoallergenic food products.