News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Children should be strongly encouraged to regularly include calcium-rich foods and drinks in their diets, report US researchers, after a new study confirms the negative association between the mineral and body fat. Increasing calcium intake could...
US agri-giant Cargill is set to expand its gum manufacturing capabilities in China. Working with its joint venture partner Shandong Huanghelong Group, the company has announced a significant capacity increase at its Zibo production facility in...
Tesco, the UK's biggest supermarket group with 13 million customers, is to introduce degradable carrier bags in all of its stores from next year, the first UK retail group to take such a move.
Infant formula to alpha-cyclodextrin via enzyme processing are all on the table as the nascent food authority in Oceania calls for comments on its food standards code.
Calls by a number of consumer bodies tougher labelling on alcoholic beverages have not fallen on deaf ears. No sooner had the National Consumers League (NCL), the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), and 67 other consumer groups submitted...
Researchers in the US have designed a new potato for the crisps industry with a 'favourable' starch to sugar ratio to beat the burnt flavour when frying.
The imminent takeover of Safeway by Morrisons can not come soon enough, it seems.
This year has been one the most hectic in recent times for the British supermarket sector, what with the year-long Safeway takeover battle, Tesco and Co-op strengthening their positions in the convenience store sector, Somerfield fighting off hostile...
Children should be strongly encouraged to regularly include calcium-rich foods and drinks in their diets, report US researchers, after a new study confirms the negative association between the mineral and body fat.
By 2005 Geoffrey Podger and his team at Europe's first food agency could be swilling prosecco and eating proscuitto, if all goes well.
Bernard Matthews, a leading producer of fresh, chilled and frozen turkey products, is to install cutting edge maintenance and management software at all six of its facilities in the UK. The company has signed an agreement with technology firm Invensys...