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Protein Vision 2024

Protein Vision 2024: Big name speakers announced

By Nicholas Robinson

Quorn, Redefine Meat, THIS, La Vie and Rude Health are among the high-profile brands providing their valuable market intelligence at this year’s Protein Vision digital event.

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Conflicting caffeine research confuses consumers

By Donna Eastlake

Caffeine’s effect on vascular health has been a hot topic for years, with researchers putting forward positive and negative arguments. Now, a new study is adding to the conversation. But what's the truth?

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New EU novel food rules countdown begins

By Nicholas Robinson

Novel foods in Europe will be subject to new safety assessments early next year as the European Food Safety Authority updates processes to better reflect the changing landscape and potentially speed up approvals.

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Food tech investment slump seeing slow u-turn

By Nicholas Robinson

Food and drink investors remain cautious over which businesses to pump funds into on the back of a “challenging” market that’s remained stagnant following a steep decline, a banking expert tells FoodNavigator.

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How precision tech will reboot dairy industry profits

By Nicholas Robinson

Dairy value sales will balloon to over $1tr in the next decade as the sector combats myriad issues by adopting emerging food technologies like precision fermentation and cellular agriculture.

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Prebiotics may improve frailty in the elderly: RCT

By Stephen Daniells

Three months of supplementation with a prebiotic blend of inulin and oligofructose may significantly improve measures of frailty in the elderly, says a new double-blind, randomized, controlled trial with 200 people.

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Mapping the ‘food microbiome'

By Augustus Bambridge-Sutton

New research, which maps the ‘food microbiome’, opens up a range of new avenues for study and points to significant overlap between food and human microbiomes.

Fasting has many health benefits, but it's not all good news. Image Source: Getty Images/Tara Moore

What are the drawbacks of fasting?

By Augustus Bambridge-Sutton

Fasting has many health benefits. However, it’s not all good news. Two studies look at some of its potential drawbacks.

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How Délifrance is taking on climate change

By Gill Hyslop

Agricultural output is the cornerstone of the French bakery specialist’s portfolio – whether that be wheat or the food eaten by dairy cows to produce high-quality butter – which is obviously heavily dependent on the climate.

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Single cell proteins: A question of cost

By Lynda Searby

Single Cell Protein (SCP) produced by biomass fermentation has long been talked about in terms of its potential as an alternative protein source for feedstock, but how close is it to being a viable option?

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