News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
PepsiCo is embarking on a new $11.6m health and wellness initiative, announcing that this year it expects 50 percent of its new product revenues to be achieved through the sale of 'healthy' goods.
UK company Multiple Marketing has developed a new range of functional cereal bars in an attempt to cash in on the increasing demand for nutritionally beneficial and innovative wellness products that deliver functional health benefits.
Neptune Technologies & Bioressources has announced that it has overcome the barriers to developing functional foods using Neptune Krill Oil (NKO) in alliance with Terepia, with the introduction of three fruit-flavored custards.
Tate & Lyle's US food ingredients team has developed a new crunchy snack coating for products including fruits and nuts, which claims to produce snacks that are soft on the inside and crispy on the outside.
Extracts from laurel and basil are promising alternatives to synthetic antioxidants, says new research from Finland.
An independent panel of scientists is to meet this week to review recent scientific data on the soy compound genistein. The scientists expect to reach conclusions as to whether or not the consumption of genistein could have a negative impact on human...