News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The food industry should benefit from recent advances in tracking the rice genome, with Chinese researchers this week revealing their painstaking work could open up the way for improved strains in wheat, corn, soy and rapeseed.
Food technologist marks breakthrough in rice starch procurement, replacing a 60-year-old method with a more 'efficient and environmentally-friendly way' to separate a rice kernel's tightly-bound portions of starch and protein, writes Lindsey Partos.
In a bid to stem the flow of funding to European health budgets, Brussels has invested more than €14 million in the fight against fat.
Sales for food enzymes crept up by a slight two per cent in 2004 for number one enzymes player Novozymes, but a boost in low carb beverages continues to lift profit.
Conversion to organic farming to supply a growing demand from the food industry could prove more difficult after a court ruling issued this week.
Researchers at Brandeis University claim that they have found a way for food manufacturers to make snack foods that lower cholesterol levels.