A series of videos that provide advice on how to mix sometimes difficult-to-handle food ingredients with high shear mixers has been produced by equipment supplier Silverson Machines.
A 70-strong branded range comprising products from most of the main ingredients groups is to be rolled out throughout the year by Direct Food Ingredients (DFI).
Cloetta and Tangerine Confectionery are the latest food manufacturers to remove six food colours that are possibly associated with hyperactivity from their products.
Sales growth in monosodium glutamate (MSG) is slowing globally due to negative publicity, despite trade in the ingredient booming in the Far East, according to Leatherhead Food Research.
My Leatherhead colleague Alice Pegg was on TV recently explaining the importance of food additives. With the clever use of red food dye she easily convinced a group of experienced wine tasters that a dyed white wine was red wine.
We risk becoming a “scientifically illiterate society”, warned David Gregory, chairman of Assured Food Standards, in this year’s Institution of Food Science and Technology’s annual lecture.
The speed with which China has built a dominant position in the global supply of food additives and ingredients is truly astonishing, according to a...
Such is the distrust of 'chemicals' that retailers are now blacklisting scores of legal additives. But what does this mean for suppliers? Elaine Watson reports
The prediction is for a relatively low rate of growth in the use of hydrocolloids in the foreseable future, but it should still be ahead of the overall market
Confectioners have pledged to rid products of the colours used in the controversial University of Southampton study rather than apply warning labels,...
A more mature debate about E-numbers would only come through a better understanding of where additives came from and why they were added to foods, a...
