News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Volatility in crucial food commodity markets, primarily due to shifts in the BRIC economies, are currently underappreciated in the market place, warns a new report from Rabobank Food and Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR).
Cargill is to acquire Indonesian starch and sweetener company PT Sorini Agro Asia Corporindo, deal designed to help it better serve its customers in the Asia Pacific region.
Imitation cheese with 60 per cent less sodium may be just as accepted in terms of sensory and functional properties compared to full salt versions, according to new research.
Potato starch manufacturer Avebe and BASF are teaming up in a new biotechnology bid to bring farmers modern and fungal resistant starch potato varieties.
EFSA gut/immune health meeting
Differentiating between disease risk factors and disease reduction in the way that the 2006 nutrition and health claim regulation does is too arbitrary and needs revision, according to a German nutrition professor. But if such a change is needed, who...