News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The artificial butter flavouring 2,3-pentanedione, used to provide butter taste and aroma in microwave popcorn is an ‘inhalation hazard’ that may cause severe lung disease in food industry workers, warns new research.
DuPont Nutrition & Health claims that a new study has demonstrated the satiating effect of its polydextrose ingredient, with participants eating less food at a subsequent meal after consuming the low-calorie soluble fiber.
Nutritionist Dr Carrie Ruxton has challenged the latest study vilifying egg yolk as a contributor to coronary artery disease.
MULTIVAC has launched its own range of checkweighers for the first time – a move that will effectively complete its packaging line offering, the firm claims.
Novozymes has forged a scientist exchange programme between Denmark and India, which the company hopes will increase expertise and innovation in the field of food ingredients, among other areas.
Researchers claim to have found a stevia muffin formulation that has all the qualities of a sugar muffin and gives four times the amount of fibre content.
Healthy food should be made cheaper and a ‘fat tax’ should not be treated simplistically in Israel, the head of the public health lobby in Israel’s parliament has told FoodNavigator.
Geneva-based Natural Taste Consulting (NTC) has developed a ‘breakthrough’ ingredient for low-pH formulations like dairy and dressings that offers a new natural, cost-effective acid-masking solution.
The US meat export sector remains in robust health with solid results for the first half of 2012, latest figures have revealed.
Mettler Toledo Safeline X-ray (SL-XR) is taking part in an exhibition looking at the best of British manufacturing.