News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The Russian Union of Grapes and Wine Producers is launching an annual exhibition and conference to address the challenges of inadequate raw material supplies that have decimated the Russian wine industry in recent years, writes Angela Drujinina.
Danisco believes it has made ice crystals in ice cream a thing of the past by creating a technology that will help manufacturers control heat shock, reports Philippa Nuttall.
Research by DSM Nutritional Products provides further evidence of the mechanism behind lycopene's protective role against prostate cancer, giving extra support for its use in functional foods and supplements.
Number one cultures supplier Chr. Hansen is up for sale as its major stakeholder decides to pull away from the ingredients slice of the company to focus on the pharmaceutical unit. The move will make the company's still growing cultures division in...
This week's Ingredients Russia show in Moscow will highlight the importance of healthy food, a sector which has seen spectacular growth in western Europe over the last few years. But structural problems continue to dominate the Russian market, where...
Government campaigns to reduce salt consumption in consumer diets are in place but scientists in Switzerland are calling for new research into the possible beneficial effects of salt increase in pregnant women with high blood pressure.
The primary food agency in Europe responsible for assessing risks to the food chain concludes that more information on the potential adverse reaction of peanut oil, used in food production, to peanut allergic consumers is necessary after the industry...
After several months of tight margins and dipping sales vegetable fats and oils supplier Aarhus United has turned the corner with improved growth in the third quarter, helped by a strategy to focus on the core market of speciality fats, writes Lindsey...
Privately owned Gelnex, which pioneered the production of type A pork skin gelatin in South America, has recently opened a beefskin gelatin plant in Brazil. Philippa Nuttall spoke to the company's CEO about the challenges the industry faces.
Azerbaijan's largest dairy company is set to double its production capacity after securing outside funding worth nearly €4.4 million to help the firm hold off competition from imports and safeguard domestic farmers' incomes, reports Chris Mercer.
The rise of snacks as grazing food has seen the Czech Republic, recently identified by the European Commission as having the longest working hours in Europe, emerge as one of the region's most dynamic savoury snacks markets, writes Chris Mercer .
A young, up-market coffee and sandwich chain has used a steady sales rise and promising economic growth in host countries Poland, Latvia and the Czech Republic to defend its policy of working at a loss to pursue aggressive expansion plans. But there...
Number one cultures supplier Chr. Hansen is up for sale as its major stakeholder decides to pull away from the ingredients slice of the company to focus on the pharmaceutical unit, reports Lindsey Partos.
Manufacturers of oat-based products in the UK can now position them alongside cholesterol-lowering foods, following the approval of a health claim by the country's voluntary claims body.