Emulsifiers, stabilisers, hydrocolloids

'The beverage with the ideal sensory profile is waiting to be created': DuPont

29-Sep-2020 By Oliver Morrison

The ingredient giant discusses how its latest sensory testing model allows plant-based beverage manufacturers a faster and less risky route to market.

Huel aims to scoop ‘time-poor, health conscious consumers’ with new hot meals

18-Sep-2020 By Oliver Morrison

Meal replacement brand Huel is expanding its powdered food range and launching its first hot meals in the UK.

Anti-E171 group claims small battle in long war

10-Sep-2020 By Oliver Morrison

Food safety campaigners are hopeful the European Commission will rethink its stance on titanium dioxide (or E171) after a committee voted down new specifications for E171 and instead passed a resolution calling on the EC to remove E171 from the list of...

UK weight-loss diet plan sparks fortification versus clean label debate

07-Sep-2020 By Oliver Morrison

A soup and shake weight-loss diet prescribed by the UK National Health Service to tackle type 2 diabetes has stirred a row over long ingredients lists.

The FoodNavigator Podcast: Sugar reformulation part 2: The taste conundrum

14-Aug-2020 By Oliver Morrison

The food industry is under pressure to reformulate products with less sugar. The UK has a voluntary target for manufacturers to meet a 20% cut in sugar by 2020. This is unlikely to be met and campaigners are increasingly demanding that mandatory sugar...

Upfield’s carbon labelling plans: Gimmick or triumph for consumer choice?

13-Aug-2020 By Oliver Morrison

The Amsterdam-based owner of Flora, Blue Band, Stork, Becel, Country Crock and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! is introducing on-pack carbon labelling to 100 million packs of its margarine and spreads by the end of 2021 in order to “help consumers...

Study reviews the latest approaches towards improved gluten-free bread properties

23-Jul-2020 By Gill Hyslop

A recent study analysed recent advances to improve the quality of gluten-free bread, focusing not only on the latest conventional ingredients and innovative approaches to replace the gluten-network, but also on technological and processes methods that...

Nanomaterials: Food agency identifies main uses, reveals ‘most affected’ food categories

12-Jun-2020 By Flora Southey

French food agency ANSES has identified the main uses of manufactured nanomaterials in food, and named the sub-categories most affected.

Seaweed supplier Algaia enjoys sales boom as coronavirus accelerates shift to traceable food solutions

15-May-2020 By Oliver Morrison

The French company also notes that food manufacturers in Europe are becoming increasingly wary of using ingredients sourced from China owing to the pandemic.

Making sustainable waves: SeaGrown on its plans for the UK's first offshore seaweed farm

13-May-2020 By Oliver Morrison

Fast-growing, robust, sustainable, nutritious... it even tastes like bacon. Is there no end to seaweed's talents? Meet the firm establishing what it claims is the UK’s first and only commercial offshore seaweed farm.

RSPO requests support from governments to reframe the palm oil narrative

30-Apr-2020 By Oliver Morrison

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which promotes the use of sustainable palm oil products and which counts the likes of Nestle, Unilever, Danone and Kellogg among its members, has called for assistance from European governments in its effort...

Disrupting the disruptors: Next generation plant-based proteins bridge health and sustainability gap

23-Apr-2020 By Katy Askew

Plant-based products benefit from something of a health halo. However, the nutritional profile of these often ultra-processed foods is coming under increased scrutiny. FutureBridge forecasts four-up-and coming plant-based proteins that could disrupt the...

Freeze drying technology could result in tastier, clean label ice-cream

08-Apr-2020 By Oliver Morrison

Freeze-dried berry powders have been found to act as ‘outstanding’ stabilizers, according to US research, offering manufacturers exiting clean label solutions for customers.

E414 supplier backs reforestation in Africa: ‘Our customers will know how many trees were planted thanks to their business’

20-Mar-2020 By Flora Southey

Acacia gum manufacturer Alland & Robert has teamed with an environmental charity to support acacia tree planting in Mali, Niger and Ethiopia. “We base our support on our sold volume of acacia gum,” explains marketing manager Violaine Fauvarque.

DuPont’s bakery emulsification system responds to clean label, health and sustainability trends: 'POWERBake consistently outperformed existing benchmarks'

12-Feb-2020 By Katy Askew

DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences is launching a new emulsification system for the global bakery sector that, the company says, responds to three important trends: sustainability, health and clean label.