A variety of sweet onion that doesn’t reduce the cook to tears has secured a listing at Waitrose & Partners. US-headquartered BASF is behind the innovation.
UK supermarket chain ASDA has launched a new ‘sweet red’ onion variety that has lower pungency levels and is said to be milder, juicier and crunchier than more established varieties.
By exploiting plant by-products for precursors to in-demand flavors, Natural Taste Consulting’s (NTC) has come up with natural, sustainable, and highly cost-effective options for a variety of foods – but how are they doing this?
Japanese scientists have identified a yellow pigment in onions, a discovery that appears to answer a long-standing question in natural colours for foods.
Stronger flavoured onions could be better cancer-fighting foods
than their mild-flavoured cousins, find researchers in the US that
analysed an array of common varieties.
Research into the potential impact that diet can have on prostate
cancer continued this week with scientists from China suggesting
that the old French favourite, garlic, could reduce the risk of
this increasingly common disease.
