10-Oct-2005 By Elaine Watson
The new owner of the Altú cereal bar range will re-launch it early next year in a bid to broaden its appeal.Low carb snack bar maker Go Lower, which...
06-Oct-2005 By Sarah Britton
Tate & Lyle has been researching ways of reducing sugar, energy and fat in yoghurts to meet European consumer demand for healthier food.The...
Novel foods speeding up?
06-Oct-2005
The Novel Food Regulation (NFR) (258/1997) has come in for significant criticism over the years for being too expensive, cumbersome and...
Further salt reductions prove hard
06-Oct-2005
The food industry is “getting to the flat part of the improvement curve” on salt reduction in terms of technical capability and consumer...
06-Oct-2005 By Elaine Watson
Slapping ‘low-GI’, or ‘omega-3 inside’ on the label might look like a sure-fire way to boost margins.
Iron lady
06-Oct-2005
Encapsulated nutrients open up new applications
13-Sep-2005 By Elaine Watson
Forget old men with heart problems spreading their toast with cholesterol-lowering margarine and planning their next Saga holiday. Functional has hit the mainstream, says Elaine Watson
12-Sep-2005 By Elaine Watson
A new functional beverage fortified with ‘super-broccoli’ could be on the market by this time next year, the company behind the Sirco...
06-Sep-2005 By Sarah Britton
Consumer awareness of the health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids has grown from 52% to 65% in the past year, according to a survey commissioned by...
Functional foods not just for dysfunctional people, say shoppers
30-Aug-2005 By Elaine Watson
Functional foods are now well and truly in the mainstream, according to exclusive research conducted by HI Europe for Food Manufacture magazine.A...
10-Aug-2005 By Elaine Watson
Kyprianou denies rules demonise foods or strangle innovation
McCain says goodbye Mr fat chips
10-Aug-2005
Frozen potato products giant McCain has slashed fat and salt levels across its foodservice range in a bid to improve the nutritional profile of its...
10-Aug-2005
A quick glance at the supermarket shelves shows an unprecedented amount of information on food packaging. As well as the rows of numbers analysing...
Big commercial potential in nutrigenomics, say DNA testing firms
31-Jul-2005 By Elaine Watson
Firms offering dietary advice on the basis of DNA testing claim that customers are already demanding products that are specifically formulated to...
04-Jul-2005 By Sarah Britton
Food manufacturers are exploring ways to boost iron absorption in vegetarian foods by adding a water-soluble powder known as the ‘meat factor’...
Functional headache if foods reclassified as medicines, says legal firm
04-Jul-2005 By Elaine Watson
A change to European rules regulating the sale of ‘medicinal’ foods could prove to be a major headache for the functional food industry, a legal...
Disadvantaged to be targeted on healthier eating
04-Jul-2005 By Rick Pendrous
Disadvantaged social groups such the elderly and some ethnic minority communities look set to become the focus of attention for healthy eating...
30-Jun-2005
The proposed regulation on nutrition and health claims went to its first reading at the Council of the European Union on June 3. This generated a...
Drink that wards off strokes could be on-shelf by autumn
30-Jun-2005
A tomato-based drink, claimed to benefit the heart and circulation, could hit supermarket shelves this autumn.The fruit juice drink, called Sirco,...
European legal ruling could kill off health claim proposals
30-Jun-2005 By Elaine Watson
Unpopular legislation could be derailed by related judgement
Glanbia concentrates on heart health
13-Jun-2005
A new partnership between Nurture Inc in the US and Glanbia Nutritionals will give the European ingredient supplier exclusive European distribution...
Nestlé takes different route
13-Jun-2005
Nestlé has embarked on a radical overhaul of its UK packaging with new labelling to help consumers make healthier choices.The new labels include...
13-Jun-2005 By Susan Birks
Europe could save billions on treatment costs for obesity
13-Jun-2005
Vitafoods, held in Geneva last month, is the annual event where just about every plant extract, new ingredient and health claim can be found within...
Nutrient profiling the model of refinement, says FSA
06-Jun-2005 By Elaine Watson
Nutrient profiling is not the blunt instrument for arbitrarily categorising foods that some critics make it out to be, the Food Standards Agency...
It's bye-bye to Atkins and hello to GI
11-May-2005 By Elaine Watson
Manufacturers have a "tapestry of opportunities" to capitalise on the low-glycaemic index (GI) diet by altering processes or reformulating products,...
Superfood sense
11-May-2005 By Claire Allen
According to the media, we're in the grip of a global cancer epidemic. Some 20m people worldwide live with the disease in one form or another -- a...
11-May-2005 By Susan Birks
Government guidelines on fat in the diet should be revised to put more emphasis on replacement of bad fats with good ones, reports a new British...
PeptoPro could help elderly or obese
11-May-2005
DSM says its high protein ingredient PeptoPro can benefit a wider audience than simply athletes and exercise fanatics. It could be used to create...
Signposting system awaits green light
11-May-2005
Government moves to make food manufacturers adopt a front-of-pack signposting system on labels to help shoppers make healthier choices raise some...
04-Apr-2005
Start making healthy products now or pay the price in the long run. That was the message from Food Manufacture's 'Winning ways to healthier NPD' conference held in London recently, as Stefan Chomka reports
04-Apr-2005 By Susan Birks
Soya is accredited with several health benefits and has some consumer recognition, but will it ever go mainstream? Susan Birks investigates
04-Apr-2005 By Elaine Watson
Nutrient profiling dismissed as ill-judged and counter-productive
Minister calls food industry irresponsible
04-Apr-2005
The government has criticised the food industry for failing to take corporate social responsibility (CSR) seriously, but it will not legislate on...
04-Apr-2005 By Susan Birks
The UK body set up to safeguard consumers from spurious health claims on food products has approved a new claim with regard to omega-3...
07-Mar-2005
Little enthusiasm among processors for glycaemic index labels
07-Mar-2005 By Susan Birks
Clear labelling promised in response to more public pressure
Bakers make more of health
07-Mar-2005
With healthy eating being top of food producers' agendas, ingredients manufacturer Zeelandia has launched a new bread mix for bakers that gives the...
07-Mar-2005
More research is needed to clear the mist that surrounds claims about the nutritional superiority of organic foods, as Catherine Quinn discovers
07-Mar-2005 By John Dunn
John Dunn reports from a country that claims to be the world leader in the manufacture of health-enhancing functional foods
Can we eat ourselves thin?
07-Mar-2005 By Michelle Knott
The battle of the bulge remains high on consumer agendas and, as Atkins and South Beach regimes fade from the spotlight, Michelle Knott reviews a new generation of ingredients that could revolutionise fat busting
Well on the way
07-Mar-2005
Consumers expect products to be tasty, convenient and now healthy too. That means low in calories, but high in nutrients. New research is not only looking at producing new healthiy ingredients but also maximising their effectiveness in food
The lighter side of Chinese food
07-Feb-2005
Chinese Food is being given a more healthy image by ready meals manufacturer Oriental Express Frozen Foods (OEFF).The company has launched China...
New meals are rolled out as Brakes doubles its healthy offerings range
07-Feb-2005
Brakes has unveiled a huge expansion to its Healthier Choices range of products, with new launches in salads, sandwich fillings, ready meals and...
Danes confirm organic pinta is better for you
07-Feb-2005
Organic milk processors have received a boost from research that showed their product contains higher levels of vitamins, essential fats and...
07-Jan-2005
Unilever has finally decided that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, with a range of low-carb as well as low-calorie foods under its Slim-Fast slimming...
Looking to a busy New Year...
07-Jan-2005
This time last year, I covered a review of forthcoming labelling changes that were predicted to have a significant impact on the industry as a whole,...
07-Jan-2005 By Susan Birks
Industry experts have warned that government pressure to reduce sugar and fat in processed foods to help consumers curb obesity could give rise to...
07-Jan-2005
Lipgene is a huge pan-European research project that could result in manufacturers adopting radically different ingredients and processes, as Sue Scott reports
07-Jan-2005 By Susan Birks
Sainsbury wheels out first on-pack nutrition guide based on GDAs
