News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
A small US study on honey, a food consumed by mankind for thousands of years, suggests daily consumption of this sweet ingredient could be a good source of protective antioxidant compounds for the human body, writes Dominique Patton.
In the same week that the US food watchdog releases new findings on the presence of acrylamide, the probable human carcinogen, in processed food products, the American Chemical society will dedicate an entire symposium to this sensitive issue that has...
As one door closes another one opens with the Food Ingredients Asia show that ended in Shanghai last week now replaced by the finished foods exhibition SIAL China. At the opening event this week EU agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler was there to...
Boosting 'added-value' opportunities for companies working with corn, new research from government scientists on a fungus could hold the key to using corn fibre as a factory for the production of the potent antioxidant lycopene, making it a far...