An Israeli start-up is leveraging culinary art and upcycling in an attempt to overhaul the perception of the run-of-the-mill and often unwholesome ready-to-cook food sector.
Plant-based ready meal company BOL Foods is joining the likes of Huel and Soylent in the meal replacement market with its newly launched Power Shakes. FoodNavigator catches up with founder Paul Brown to find out how his range sets itself apart in the...
Consumers still assume ready meals are low in nutrition, but wider use of slow cooking techniques such as sous vide can produce foods that's more nutritious than home-cooked equivalents. Can prepared foods become more widely accepted?
Eating ready meals every day may increase the risk of obesity and associated health problems, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, researchers have found.
Saudi Arabia's ready meal, coffee, tea and spices market grew 118% to reach US$7bn in value between 2007 and 2012, but growth will slow in coming years, according to a new report.
UK ready meals contain up to double the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommended daily intake for sugar, according to the latest research from Which?.
A significant number of foods marketed to children in the UK are higher in fat and sugar than foods marketed to adults, suggests new research published in Public Health Nutrition.
Industry produced ready meals have come out on top in the nutrition stakes after researchers in the UK found recipes produced by TV chefs are on the whole ‘less healthy’ than supermarket bought, private label foods.
Laila’s Fine Foods is reporting substantial growth in frozen and chilled ready meals as Mintel figures suggest the UK market is experiencing significant growth.
Traffic-light labelling on the front of food packages do not change the relative healthiness of consumer purchases, says a new study from Oxford University.
The growth in ready meals, plus desire for clean-label, restaurant-style products has led the UK’s Ulrick & Short to launch a new functional starch from wheat.
Food retailers are failing to attract 18-25 year olds and over-55's
to the single-serve dinner market, as a UK think tank predicts 35
per cent of the British population will live alone by 2021.
Food makers designing ready meals would be wise to consider the
over fifties, after fresh research reveals they are driving a hefty
slice of the market,reports Lindsey Partos.
Spanish ready meal sales grew by 7.5 per cent in 2003, another
clear example of how Spaniards are rapidly embracing modern
culinary trends and shedding the tapas image. And with the
category still relatively underdeveloped compared...
Britain is set to extend its lead in the European ready meals
market over the next five years, accounting for more than half of
all sales by 2007. But convenience is no longer enough to keep
consumers happy - they want health and...
Two new adverts for the group's delicatessen and packaged meat and ready meals units helped France's Fleury Michon to an 11 per cent increase in sales in the first half of 2003.
Longer working hours, higher incomes and the demand for convenience
and variety are among the key growth drivers for ready meals,
according to a recent report from market analysts
Euromonitor.
Is it because we travel more ? Is it because of the influence that
the US eating patterns wield over the UK ? Or because gastronomic
traditions are far less marked in the UK than in some of our
continental European neighbours ? Whatever...
