News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Consumers who choose to start the day with one of the new generation cereals found on the supermarket shelves today might as well be eating a slab of chocolate cake, claims UK independent body, the Food Commission, this week.
France has agreed to a European Union demand to end the practice of labelling French food products in French only, Les Echos reports. The French government is now drafting an order requiring food companies to attach labels in at least one foreign...
Switzerland is the latest country to approve the use of natamycin, an inhibitor of moulds and yeasts, in cheese and meat production joining the European Union, the US, some South American and Eastern European countries who have already taken this...
British biotechnology company Fluid Technologies this week unveiled a new micro-encapsulation technology for the food ingredient industry.
Wholegrains are in the news again this week with the release of a new study from the US that suggests a diet rich in wholegrains could not only protect against cardiovascular disease, but also type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers.
Anglo-Dutch consumer products group Unilever raised its 2002 forecast on Wednesday and reported a larger-than-expected 31 per cent increase in second-quarter core earnings.