Tate & Lyle could net a further £70m from selling its molasses trading and Vietnam sugar businesses following the £211m sale of its EU sugar division, according to Investec Securities.
As delegates heard at a recent British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) conference, consumers are born with an innate preference for sweet tastes, perhaps because in evolutionary terms it signals safe food and energy provision.
The first fruits of a collaboration between flavours giant Firmenich and biotech firm Senomyx will bear fruit this month with the launch of a new ingredient that enhances the taste of the high intensity sweetener sucralose.
British Sugar has unveiled plans to create 25 new jobs at its Cantley sugar refinery in Norwich as part of a £35M investment to enable it to process...
Adding odourants to foods can fool your taste buds into thinking foods are sweeter and saltier than they really are, opening up new possibilities for...
It's only when you start trying to remove or replace it that you realise what a versatile and important ingredient sugar actually is, British Sugar's head of food science tells Elaine Watson
Sweet bakery specialist Dawn Foods has appointed a new bakery technician for its Evesham site.Lucy Baylem, who has previously worked as a craft baker...
The first products containing ingredients that can effectively fool our taste buds into believing we are eating foods far saltier, sweeter and richer...
There is now a dazzling array of alternatives to sugar available to food manufacturers, but the game isn't up for the white stuff just yet, says Bill Lavers
Although he started out as a chemical engineer focusing on kit, Steve Williams soon realised that success was largely down to the way you motivate the people who operate your machinery