01-Jan-2012 - AB Enzymes has launched the most recent addition to its Veron baking enzyme range: a monoglyceride replacer called Veron GMS+.
01-Jan-2012 - Does stevia have the wings to get the sugar-free/ tooth-friendly confectionery market off the ground? Lynda Searby reports
01-Jan-2012 - The first commercial products made using Crisp Sensation's coating technology will hit shelves in mid-2012, according to Axel Graefe, sales and marketing director, Europe, for the company.
01-Jan-2012 - Innophos is investing in global manufacturing to boost efficiency and production as it continues to launch new phosphate-based ingredients for the food industry.
16-Dec-2011 - Ingredients suppliers are seizing the opportunity offered by EU regulations banning the use of battery farmed hens’ eggs to back food manufacturers struggling to source legitimate supplies.
09-Dec-2011 - Further evidence has emerged that the Department of Health (DoH) will not implement tougher salt reduction targets after 2012, despite denials that it planned to “ditch” them entirely.
07-Dec-2011 - The UK’s biggest food firm Premier Foods has pledged to source only eggs and egg products which comply with new EU welfare rules, which come into force next month, as the government was accused of ‘chickening out’ on its promise to protect UK producers.
05-Dec-2011 - Ingredient specialist Ulrick & Short has developed clean-label starches and fat and milk solid replacers to help food manufacturers cut ingredient costs, develop healthier products and remain competitive.
05-Dec-2011 - Slovenian firm Vitiva has launched a line of natural solutions for increasing the shelf-life and yield management of processed fish.
05-Dec-2011 - Chr Hansen says its new Direct Vat Set (DVS) SafeIT cultures for feta-type cheeses provide taste and texture, with strong phage robustness and extended shelf-life.
05-Dec-2011 - Cargill and BASF Plant Science have agreed to co-develop a new dietary source of the essential fatty acids eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acid (EPA/DHA).
05-Dec-2011 - Many traditional fruit flavours have a natural affinity with high-fat dairy systems, such as strawberries in yogurt. When these same flavours are used in reduced- or fat-free systems they nearly always lose their flavour and integrity. Create Flavours set about a year-long project to identify the synergistic effects that occur between specific flavour molecules in fruit flavours and dairy products. As a result, it has created a range of natural flavourings to increase acceptability of fruit flavours in low-fat dairy systems, especially yogurts.
05-Dec-2011 - We westerners are curiously fussy eaters. We'll happily consume the pulped nether regions of factory-farmed pigs if they're labelled as sausages, while some of us positively salivate at the idea of grotesquely enlarged goose liver. But when we see someone munching on a free-range cricket, we gag.
05-Dec-2011 - The Cree Indians predicted that the white man would realise that he couldn't eat money only when the last tree had been cut down, the last fish caught and the last river poisoned.
05-Dec-2011 - Volatile apple concentrate prices are forcing diversification and consolidation, despite the current buoyancy in the market, according to juice base processor David Berryman.
05-Dec-2011 - The government has no plans to drop salt targets, a spokesman for the Department of Health (DoH) has told FoodManufacture.co.uk.
02-Dec-2011 - Ocean Spray Cranberries is channelling millions of dollars into expanding global cranberry processing capacity, making it easier for UK concentrate manufacturers to secure supplies.
02-Dec-2011 - The government looks set to abandon targets for reducing salt next year under a revised Public Health Responsibility Deal (PHRD) focusing on calorie reduction of foods sold and increasing people’s physical activity.
23-Nov-2011 - Organised crime is switching to food fraud from activities such as drug trafficking, because detection methods are less developed and penalties are softer.
21-Nov-2011 - The UK can expect a gradual sales boom in products sweetened with stevia, according to a leading market analyst.
14-Nov-2011 - No-calorie, sweetener stevia has finally won EU approval, prompting a range of firms to accelerate plans to bring products to market.
14-Nov-2011 - Foods designed and marketed for diabetics are an undiscovered goldmine which could yield billions of pounds, experts have claimed.
07-Nov-2011 - UK consumer inflation on food is the second highest in the EU – up 6.4% while world commodity prices are falling.
01-Nov-2011 - The term 'super fruit' is so overused it's nearly lost its meaning. The popular definition has tended to focus on nutrition and health. But some processors are using the term to highlight fruit that has strong technical uses in manufacturing.
01-Nov-2011 - Here are two things that we all know about the plant compounds that crop up in everything from fruit and veg to tea, chocolate and red wine: First, there's a growing mountain of evidence that phytochemicals mainly flavonoids and polyphenols deliver a catalogue of health benefits. Second, lab experiments show that these same compounds are great at mopping up free radicals.