Latest News in the food Industry

24 Oct 2023

A survey by the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has highlighted the importance of supplements for health in the minds of US consumers, with over 90% agreeing they are essential to maintaining health.

19 Oct 2023

A Solidaridad report, which ranks the performance of well-known coffee producers regarding sustainability, has found that the industry is in a “state of crisis”.

18 Oct 2023

Increasing awareness about processing levels and methods, healthy ageing for Gen X consumers, and the implications of technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on food and drink products feature amongst the top consumer trends for 2024, a Mintel repo...

11 Oct 2023

Danish startup Circular Food Technology produces high-fibre, high-protein flours from upcycled brewer’s spent grain and is gearing up to supply the bakery and bread market.

6 Oct 2023

Wile Women, a US-based direct-to-consumer supplement brand, offers “naturopathic” products designed to address women’s mental health and aims to break the stigma surrounding perimenopause.

4 Oct 2023

London-based charity City Harvest is solving the longstanding issues of food waste and hunger by providing food businesses with a convenient and cost-free solution to redistributing food waste.

2 Oct 2023

The J.M. Smucker Co. is to acquire fellow American snack company Hostess Brands for approximately $5.6 billion, following several other high-profile mergers in food and snacks so far in 2023.

21 Sep 2023

The European Union will clamp down on greenwashing with provisional rules that will prohibit generic sustainability claims, such as “environmentally friendly”, “natural”, “biodegradable”, and those related to emissions offsetting schemes like “carbon n...

20 Sep 2023

Nutri-Score will be adopted as the official – but voluntary – food choice logo in the Netherlands from 1 January 2024, the Dutch government confirms. How will this impact the industry?

19 Sep 2023

Thanks to the guochao trend, Chinese consumers see ‘Made in China’ products as trendy and Western brands are capitalising on this with regional flavours or Chinese-style branding. But guochao has become more nuanced and consumers are increasingly wise ...

7 Sep 2023

Some retailers and brands are finding creative ways to better promote fresh fruit and vegetables to kids such as hard discounter Lidl’s cartoon characters, Banana-Llamas and Tawny Tomatowl.

4 Sep 2023

The market for brain health supplements has long been seen as two markets, each with specific goals and concerns, one fueled by aspiration and the other by desperation, but new data from Nutrition Business Journal suggests the twin drivers of brain hea...