News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
A new report from the US-based Nutrition Business Journal has shown that consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about improving their health through supplements or food, but at the same time most have only a rudimentary knowledge of nutrition.
A new case of foot-and-mouth disease has been discovered at a farm in central South Korea, increasing concerns from Europe and Japan that football fans there for the World Cup will carry the disease with them as they move around.
Sargento, the US-based cheese producer, has managed to achieve double digit sales growth thanks in part to its prize winning packaging concept.. The company's director of new products, Brad Rostowfske, discusses the story behind this packaging concept.
Calcium has long been known to be essential for improving bone density, but new research claims that calcium intake can also lead to a reduction in phosphorous levels, in turn increasing bone loss.
Marlow Foods, the British company which makes the meat substitute Quorn has been put up for sale by its parent company, the AstraZeneca pharmaceuticals group.
Poultry meat in Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria is being tested for traces of a dangerous herbicide which entered the European food chain via a pesticide store in former East Germany.