While modern people are spending more time and money on wellness than ever before, many are looking for a quick fix. This makes for ideal consumers: impatient, anxious, and vulnerable to manipulation. Medium.com takes a critical eye to the juicing fad....
It is time to find truth and balance in the myriad calls for plastics to be replaced with alternatives or degradable versions. If we don’t, we risk setting policies, formulating regulations, enacting legislation and investing in technologies that will do more harm than good, asserts SA National Bottled Water Association executive director, Charlotte Metcalf.
In search of optimum tropical fruit expression, Thys Louw from Diemersdal Estate has successfully experimented in making the first South African Sauvignon Blanc by fermenting grape must that was frozen after harvesting.
Could there not be a more on-trend innovation than this! Israeli start-up, Better Juice, has developed innovative technology to reduce the load of simple sugars in orange juice.
Sprite, the third most popular soft drink in SA (after Coca-Cola and Fanta), has launched a new flavour: cucumber.
Irish nutrition firm, Glanbia, has confirmed it has signed a deal to buy popular diet milkshake brand Slimfast for $350m (£264.9m) from US private equity firm, Kainos Capital.
For large beverage companies, the push into pot is all about the fear of missing out. After getting beat on trends including craft beer, coconut water, and flavoured seltzer, the drink giants don’t want to miss the next trendy ingredient: cannabis.
Canning is now much more accessible for local craft beer brewers with HG Molenaar’s Packaging Equipment division reporting that it is is supporting the CB50 filler and seamer from Pneumatic Scale Angelus.
The tea and coffee markets have each successfully made the jump from hot to cold drink, the latter most recently with the cold brew and nitro coffee trends. Now, cocoa may be braced to make a similar transition into the chilled drinks fixture, reports Mintel.
A Durban craft brewery backed by two prominent CEOs of JSE-listed companies has launched the country’s first beer made with cannabis, aptly named after the city's well-known dagga variety, Durban Poison.
Drink companies Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé were found to be the world’s biggest producers of plastic trash, a report by environmental group Greenpeace has asserted.
Even but five years ago, it was unthinkable that an ingredient as regular and ubiquitous as sugar would catapult into a massive global controversy. Consumers want less of it, and governments want to tax what’s left – and this is a huge challenge for F&B manufacturers. FOOD-DRINKStuff SA editor, Brenda Neall, explores sugar reduction and Doehler's options with its South African GM, Kieran Quinn.
Tesco is set to launch the ‘UK’s first’ non-alcoholic stout in response to the growing demand for no- and low-alcohol drinks from consumers in the UK.
The UK and South Africa both introduced taxes on sugar sweetened beverages earlier this year. How has this affected Coca-Cola?
Coca-Cola brand, Schweppes, has introduced Schweppes Flavours – a new range of fruity sparkling drinks inspired by cocktails.
Coca-Cola is in talks with Canadian cannabis producer, Aurora Cannabis, about a deal to make marijuana-infused beverages, according to Bloomberg.Â
At the fdt Africa 2018 expo recently, a standout product for this editor was the first public showing in SA of CO2Sustain, a new anti-foaming processing aid that creates impressive improvements in carbonated beverage production efficiencies and end-use consumer enjoyment.
Pernod Ricard has expanded its Kahlúa coffee liqueur brand with the launch of a ready-to-drink espresso martini can featuring nitrogen widget packaging.Â
Nespresso has announced a long-term investment plan to revive Zimbabwe’s coffee industry and stimulate the rural economy.
Premium instant coffee. It sounds contradictory at first. Does such a thing even exist?