News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The mysteries of peculiar shaped fruits and vegetables appear to have been revealed. Scientists in the US have found that disabling one gene in a tomato can make it pear-shaped. Squash, aubergines and pears, they claim, probably owe their shape to the...
Bunge, set to become the world's top soybean processor with the acquisition of French rival Cereol, said on Monday that it expected third-quarter earnings to rise at least 40 per cent over a year ago, fuelled by the currency slump in its key base of...
Sales and profits at Belgian retail group Colruyt showed double digit growth in 2001/02, and the company is predicting more of the same for the current financial year.
EU committee backs Commission proposals to reverse enforced testing of fish products from China. In March this year Member States blocked certain Chinese products over fears of banned antibiotic chloramphenicol.
CEDC, the Florida-based company which is one of the leading distributors of alcoholic drinks in Poland, has added another distributor to its portfolio, plugging a gap where it had previously been under-represented.
Kagome, a Japanese producer of tomato-based processed foods, said on Friday that it will purchase a lactic beverage maker from Snow Brand Milk Products while studying a plan to invest in the struggling dairy product manufacturer, reports the Kyodo News.
One more piece of evidence hailing the health benefits of soy joined the already considerable volume this week when scientists suggested that consuming tofu and other soy-based foods can significantly lower levels of a class of oestrogens normally...
Credit card payments made using chip and PIN technology - a much safer method than the usual signature - are to be introduced in the UK by 2005, but supermarket group Safeway is to begin its scheme later this year.