News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Raising the benchmark for the confectionery sector regarding nutrition claims, a UK watchdog has concluded a Maltesers advert from confectionery giant Mars misled the public by implying they were a low calorie snack.
Friesland Foods Kievit is launching a new range of savoury creamers based on non-hydrogenated fat (HVO), its first to contain up to 80 per cent less saturated fatty acids than other creamers.
Symrise is putting strategic emphasis on restaurant-driven trends and home-cooked flavours, and is working on its meat, fish and vegetable flavour offerings to make them more authentic.
The ability of propylene glycol monostearate (PGMS) to prevent ice recrystallisation in ice creams is “quite dramatic”, says new research from Canada.
World Food Day
The scale of the global food crisis merits the same swift fund-raising as the banking crisis, says Egypt’s first lady, as it emerges that just ten per cent of the help pledged this year has materialised so far.