04-Mar-2013 - Crosse & Blackwell has teamed up with Disney to launch a new range of fruit in jelly pots under its 4Kids brand, to drive value and penetration into the £39.1M potted fruit market.
04-Mar-2013 - Allinson, one of Allied Bakeries' bread brands, has announced a number of new high fibre products and unveiled a £1M marketing campaign.
04-Mar-2013 - EHL Ingredients is reporting a notable boost in enquiries and sales for dried lavender flower - helped in no small part by Kate Middleton's cravings for lavender shortbread.
04-Mar-2013 - Swedish salt processing company Salinity is launching SaltWell, a new naturally formed low-sodium salt, mined from a vast mineral rich Jurassic sea deep below the Chilean desert.
04-Mar-2013 - TIC Gums introduced Ticapan Quick Crunch to the European confectionery sector during the recent ProSweets show in Cologne.
04-Mar-2013 - The European Commission (EC)has approved the use of nature-identical Zeaxanthin in the as an ingredient in food supplements, DSM Nutritional Products has revealed.
04-Mar-2013 - Beneo's Isomalt can successfully replace the commonly used polyol mannitol in chewing gum, offering confectionery producers an attractive commercial alternative which maintains the gum's shape, chewability and texture.
04-Mar-2013 - Food ingredient supplier EHL Ingredients has announced 20% sales growth in 2012 - in part boosted by manufacturers buying more spices to infuse low-cost meat with more flavour.
15-Feb-2013 - Britain’s beef farmers have identified the continuing scandal of horse meat in processed meat products as an ideal opportunity to promote UK produce, supplied to Assured Food Standards which guarantee its quality and authenticity.
15-Feb-2013 - The British meat industry is “lucky” to have loyal customers and needs to manage its reputation carefully in the wake of the horse meat scandal, according to the boss of the lamb and beef farmer levy-paying body EBLEX.
12-Feb-2013 - A new study has revealed that InFat - a vegetable-based fat for infant formula with a similar structure to breast milk - provides beneficial effects for the health and well-being of formula-fed infants.
07-Feb-2013 - DSM Nutritional Products has acquired the OatWell brand of beta-glucan ingredients from CreaNutrition, the subsidiary of Swedish Oat Fiber (SOF). SOF will produce the OatWell products at its factory in Bua, Sweden.
07-Feb-2013 - An alliance between Chr Hansen and Fresh Beverages International will enable manufacturers of non-refrigerated beverages to add probiotics to their drinks.
07-Feb-2013 - Last month saw Crosse & Blackwell's first move into meatballs with the launch of a pork meatball range under its 4Kids brand.
07-Feb-2013 - An artisan ice cream maker has responded to the boom in ethnic food consumption by making a new range of Asian-flavoured ice cream and sorbets for the foodservice market.
07-Feb-2013 - Taura Natural Ingredients has unveiled a range of 'natural' concentrated fruit pieces for artisan chocolatiers and bakers.
07-Feb-2013 - Entrepreneur Henny Hales used her food industry background to design Roar Porridge Pods, in a bid to satisfy consumers' fast-growing demand for a healthy but convenient start to the day.
07-Feb-2013 - Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has given its Glacéau Vitaminwater brand a stevia-based makeover
07-Feb-2013 - Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) will be showcasing the latest additions to its deZaan range of chocolate and cocoa products at this month's Gulfood 2013 in Dubai.
04-Feb-2013 - 'Natural' will continue to be the dominant force in food and beverage product development in the coming year, according to the latest edition of New Nutrition Business's trend-spotting report.
04-Feb-2013 - The Scottish government has revealed plans to launch a food hub to match food manufacturers with suppliers of Scottish produce.
04-Feb-2013 - Burger King’s announcement that it has switched to German and Italian beef suppliers in the wake of the horse meat scandal is the latest in a line of broken food industry pledges to ‘buy British’.
29-Jan-2013 - Arla Foods Ingredients is investing £102M in a new lactose manufacturing facility in Denmark that will have “a major impact on the supply of lactose to the UK food industry”.
16-Jan-2013 - Tesco and three other retailers are investigating how beef burgers on sale in Britain and Ireland became contaminated with horse meat.
14-Jan-2013 - One of the world’s hottest peppers, together with alderwood smoke, the pawpaw fruit and a classic cookie from the Netherlands will feature in the top 10 flavour trends for 2013, according to a report published by flavour company Sensient Flavours.
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