News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
As the buffer zone for global cereal stocks continues to fall and raw material prices rise, the UN-backed Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned this week that cereal stocks will continue to fall, predicting that although production prospects...
Hydrolysed whey proteins significantly reduce blood pressure in a small clinical trial, likely by altering multiple cardiovascular disease risk facters, reported researchers at a recent diabetes conference, writes Dominique Patton.
A common, but increasingly expensive and popular, food ingredient is the focus of a new global initiative to protect production. Ingredients firm Aarhus United has linked up with other stakeholders in the food industry to push a plan for the...
Dutch infant nutrition group Royal Numico is to sell its unprofitable South African baby food business as it looks to concentrate on regions where it can gain a leading position.
Leading food manufacturer Heinz is to cut the salt content of its celebrated baked beans as consumer health concerns continue over the levels of salt used in processed foods.
Australian food ingredients firm Burns Philp could be close to announcing the sale of its North American spice business, Tones Brothers, for up to $500 million, say Australian media reports.
Food makers will have increasingly accurate data about their consumers as researchers in the US design a new method to help survey respondents remember 'forgotten foods'.
Number two vitamin maker BASF and the former number one Roche have been told by the US Supreme Court that a case brought by customers outside the US against the companies for price-fixing cannot proceed, reports Dominique Patton.