News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Carrefour has fought off the increasing challenge from Metro and Tesco to maintain its leadership of the European grocery reatil market in 2002. Rewe, Wal-Mart and discount chains Aldi and Lidl have all strengthened their positions, but Ahold has...
The Chinese herb gastrodine is at the centre of new findings that suggest it could improve memory, orientation and language in people who have mild to moderate vascular dementia as the result of a stroke.
Quite a week for nutritional oils supplier Martek Biosciences. In the past seven days, the European Commission gave the green light for the use of DHA/ARA in novel foods, paving the way for a range of foodstuffs fortified with these long-chain...
Intensive marketing and increased health preoccupations could both be responsible for the mounting consumer awareness of fatty acids in Australia and New Zealand and the favourable perception of polyunsaturated 'good' fats - such as omega-3 obtained...
British tourists and expats on the Spanish island of Tenerife will soon be able to find that increasingly British dish - curry - on supermarket shelves there. Bombay Bangers is to begin exporting its range of Indian convenience foods to the island,...
Foss has developed a new system that allows for the rapid testing of mould and yeast in baked products. The new combined test for mould and yeast complements existing MicroFoss tests for enterobacteriaceae, coliform, generic E.coli and yeast.
The world wide web is now home to the results of twenty years of experiments into the behaviour of bacteria in foods with the launch this week of a free common database.
Quite a week for nutritional oils supplier Martek Biosciences. In the past seven days, the European Commission gave the green light for the use of DHA/ARA in novel foods, paving the way for a range of foodstuffs fortified with these long-chain...