Archives for July 2, 2021

McCormick & Co.: ‘We are operating in a dynamic cost environment and … are raising prices where appropriate’

Facing higher than previously expected inflation, flavor and spice giant McCormick & Company anticipates raising prices in late 2021 even as it pursues other cost savings and revenue management – a refrain that has been on repeat this year by most CPG...

Quorn looks to new extrusion technology solution to crack whole meat cut conundrum

The meat alternatives company has given its latest innovation challenge award to a French start-up with new technology that differs from conventional extrusion.

Ensuring stable vanilla supply with smart farming: ‘Like Mother Nature, we tell the crop when to bloom and not to bloom’

Israeli start-up Vanilla Vida is leveraging smart farming to overcome the ‘biggest pain point’ for flavour houses in the natural vanilla market: an unstable supply chain.

‘High value’ protein developed from agri-food side streams: ‘We combine microbes, fermentation, and AI’

Spanish start-up MOA Foodtech is upcycling would-be waste from agri-food side streams into a ‘next generation’ protein for the food industry.

PepsiCo talks health and reformulation across drinks and snacks: ‘The key is to get a product that consumers choose because it tastes great’

PepsiCo has set out an ambition to cut the sugar in its drink brands and shift its snacks portfolio towards ‘healthier options’ in Europe. FoodNavigator hears more on how it plans to do just that.

Emerging science

Emerging science: potential for food analysis via smartphone

The ability to check the microbial decomposition of food or to detect pollutants in it via smartphone alone could become reality thanks to a mini spectrometer being tested in Germany.