Latest News in the food Industry

28 Apr 2016

Algatechnologies notes that he market for ‘green’ dietary supplements is growing more than twice as quickly as that for sustainably produced food and drink, new figures from Mintel show.

28 Apr 2016

As raw food diets are hitting the mainstream, a growing number of “raw”-labelled food and drink products are launching in Europe, and it seems Germany is particularly active when it comes to “raw” food and drink innovation reports Mintel.

27 Apr 2016

Eevia, a new Finnish-Norwegian producer of organic-certified plant extracts, has announced that it recently received the Euroleaf organic certification. The company’s entire product portfolio of wild Arctic plant ingredients is now organic.

26 Apr 2016

Nestlé Dreyer’s Ice Cream has announced key ingredient improvements to six US brands including Dreyer’s, Häagen-Dazs, Outshine, Skinny Cow, Nestlé Ice Cream and Nestlé Drumstick.

21 Apr 2016

Hormel Foods has announced a company-wide clean label initiative to simplify the ingredient statements of many of its retail products through the removal or replacement of ingredients, while still delivering great-tasting items that consumers expect.

21 Apr 2016

Prinova is to become the exclusive distributor of Lycored’s lycopene- and beta carotene-based natural colours in the U.S.A. and Canada.

20 Apr 2016

Sensus has announced that the new health claim authorised by the European Commission confirms that chicory root fibre contributes to better blood glucose management, as it supports a lower rise in blood glucose response.

19 Apr 2016

Conventional strawberries top the Dirty Dozen list of the US Environmental Working Group’s 2016 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, displacing apples, which headed the list the last five years running.

18 Apr 2016

Cornelius Group and Milne Fruits have joined forces to supply the European food and drink industry with what they say is an innovative new concept in dried fruit products.

15 Apr 2016

World Food Processing has announced that it received a “letter of no objection” from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for PURISPea un-hydrolyzed and hydrolyzed pea protein.

14 Apr 2016

PureCircle is to invest in India's stevia infrastructure over the next five years. The company plans to partner with thousands of Indian farmers to plant 5,000 hectares of stevia and eventually build a stevia processing facility in India.

11 Apr 2016

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a significant increase in the number of certified organic operations, continuing the trend of double digit growth in the organic sector.