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Scottish rapeseed oil is poised for growth

Scotland's rapeseed oil sector poised for growth

By Nicholas Robinson

Scotland’s rapeseed oil industry is expected to see significant growth in the coming years, following a joint campaign between processors and scientists from Queen Margaret University, near Edinburgh, to promote the oil’s health benefits.

From left to right: Bradley, Wilson, who is retiring, and Stairs

Speciality supplier Golden Acre nets seafood firm

By Rod Addy

Speciality seafood firm Elsinore Foods has announced its acquisition by fine food distributor Golden Acre Dairy Foods Holdings in a move that expands the latter’s product offering for major supermarkets.

Fat in foods should be praised

It's time to give fat in food a good press

By Clare Cheney

Fat in food doesn’t always get a bad press. A recent headline in The Times on October 23 read: ‘Butter is good for you, says heart doctor’. This must have been music to the ears of the dairy industry. The first sentence of the column even recommended...

Seafish wants to get children eating fish in their early years

New schools’ project promotes eating fish

By Andrew Williams

Seafish, the UK’s authority on seafood, is hoping to net the next generation of fish eaters early, with a new schools’ education programme aimed at three-to-five-year-olds.

Just Crisps reports significant growth of products, which are fried in cold pressed extra virgin rapeseed oil

Fat rewards for healthy crisp makers

By Rod Addy

Crisp makers are hitting back at their unhealthy image with new varieties of crisp substituting traditional oils such as sunflower oil with alternatives that are much lower in saturated fats.

Clare Cheney

We're all going to die: don't blame red meat

By Clare Cheney

"Red meat is not only unhealthy but can be positively lethal," according to new research.This was the opening sentence of an article in The Times in March. It was reporting on the latest meat-eating health scare, which was generated by a paper...

New 'body shaping' foods to hit UK in 2011

New 'body shaping' foods to hit UK in 2011

By Elaine Watson

New functional foods on a body-shaping platform could hit UK supermarkets late next year now that a fat-busting ingredient derived from safflowers has been given an initial safety thumbs up from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

Land of promises

Land of promises

By Elaine Watson

Situated just a stone's throw from the Gaza Strip, recruiting new staff can be a challenge for Garlic & Herbs Dorot, despite its commercial...

Beauty cream

Beauty cream

By Lynda Searby

It may be a few thousand years since Cleopatra bathed in ass's milk, but the dairy industry is still leading the way when it comes to new product development in beauty foods. Lynda Searby reports

From MBA to DHA

From MBA to DHA

Jeff Bernfeld, director of marketing and commercial strategy at US-based Martek Biosciences tells Elaine Watson how he sells its long-chain omega-3

Lipid attraction

Lipid attraction

Sales of fats in Continental Europe are sluggish, but there's good growth in Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific, says RTS Resource

Omega-6 linked to obesity

Omega-6 linked to obesity

By Sarah Britton

Food manufacturers' careless use of omega-6 could be partly to blame for rising obesity levels, according to Reading University's professor of animal...

Pure vegetation

Pure vegetation

The heart health category is likely to broaden significantly in the next couple of years as manufacturers start to incorporate cholesterol-lowering...

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