Flavours and colours

Colouring foods: WFSI’s range is made from a variety of fruit and vegetable extracts

Pumpkin and carrot extracts added to colouring range

By Noli Dinkovski

A pumpkin extract and a special carrot variety are the two new additions to a range of natural colouring foods from Wild Flavors & Specialty Ingredients (WFSI), a division of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM).

Up to 40 jobs to be created at BD Foods

BD Foods creates 40 jobs

By Gwen Ridler

Up to 40 jobs are to be created at sauce and marinade manufacturer BD Foods, as the firm moves into a custom-built factory in St Leonards, Hastings.

Bell looked at the top US food flavour trends for 2017

US food flavour trends for 2017

By Gwen Ridler

Food flavouring producer Bell Flavors & Fragrances has released its top trends for 2017, which focus heavily on ethnic foods.

French firm Solina Group has acquired sauce producer New Ivory for an undisclosed sum

Sauce company acquired by French food group

By Gwen Ridler

French food ingredients firm Solina Group has acquired sauce manufacturer New Ivory from owner Rob Whitehead for an undisclosed amount this week (September 21).

The new herbs and spice guide will help fight fraud

Herbs and spices guide to help fight fraud

By Noli Dinkovski

A guide designed to protect manufacturers from buying adulterated or substituted herbs and spices could herald a new era of collaboration between food industry organisations, its authors have claimed.

Depol 40L: allows more vanillin to be produced, making limited quantities extend as far as possible

New enzyme to allay vanilla shortage fears

By Noli Dinkovski

An enzyme designed to mitigate the current supply shortage of vanilla by helping to extract the maximum amount from each production run has been made available from Biocatalysts.

Here's your chance to star at the Venice-themed food and drink manufacturing Oscars

FMEAS

Food and drink manufacturing Oscars now open

By Rick Pendrous

The 2016 Food Manufacture Excellence Awards (FMEAs) are now open for entries. So, if your company wants to be recognised for its achievements and join the celebrations at this year's Venice-themed event, you need to enter these prestigious awards.

Food business Roots: Levi Roots was the first of many food entrepreneurs to win the dragons' backing

Food manufacturing ideas wanted for Dragons’ Den

By Michelle Perrett

Food and drink manufacturing entrepreneurs are being invited to win £50,000 worth of investment for their business, by taking part in the hit BBC television show Dragons’ Den.

BRC: Global Food Safety Standard issue 7 includes unannounced audits

HE Stringer in AA+ grading factory audit success

By Noli Dinkovski

HE Stringer Flavours has become the first UK manufacturer to be given an AA+ grade certification on an unannounced factory audit under the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) Global Food Safety Standard issue 7.

The latest food and drink innovations will be on show at FiE

FIE SHOW PREVIEW

Show preview: Food Ingredients Europe

By John Wood

Next week’s Food Ingredients Europe (FiE) and Natural Ingredients (Ni) shows offer the opportunity to see the some of the latest products onthe market and hear about cutting edge developments, says John Wood

The flavour is suitable for desserts

Synergy adds to range of vanilla extracts

By John Wood

Flavours and ingredients manufacturer Synergy Flavours, has expanded its range of vanilla flavours with the introduction of a new variant of its core Madagascan vanilla extract.

Many more natural options to colour foods with red

No bugs in new red colouring

By Nicholas Robinson

A fermentation process to produce the natural red pigment carmine has been developed by Chr Hansen.

Givaudan has invested €11.5M in the Tokyo centre

Flavour firm opens in Japan

By Nicholas Robinson

Givaudan, a global flavour and fragrance house, has pumped more than €11.5M into a new Tokyo-based technical centre.

Drinks ingredients firm sold on

Symrise snaps up US’s Flavor Infusion

By Nicholas Robinson

The €1.5bn turnover European-based flavour and fragrance firm Symrise has acquired the US natural beverage ingredients firm Flavor Infusion in a multi-million euro deal, it has revealed.

Bright Foods's purchase of Weetabix has been one of the biggest 2015 deals

Food and drink M&A more subdued in 2015

By Rod Addy

UK food and drink mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lost their fizz in the first four months of 2015, discounting major one-off transactions, according to financial advisory firm Oghma Partners’ latest review.

The FSA has urged shoppers not to consume the product

Cancer-causing dye sparks palm oil recall

By Rod Addy

The presence of a cancer-causing dye, Sudan IV, in palm oil products sold at a London cash and carry has prompted the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to issue a recall notice.