22 Aug Does red wine give you a horrible hangover?
We all have our wine preferences—white, red or perhaps even blue—but a new study suggests that the colour of your glass could affect the severity of your hangover the next day.
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22 Aug SA brandy: from cheap prop to classy flyer
South African wine enthusiasts, especially those whose preference is for small-batch production of handcrafted wines, conveniently forget for most of the 20th century the Cape wine industry would not have survived without the Cape brandy industry, writes Michael Fridjohn.
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18 Aug Starbucks announces location for SA shop #3
Taste Holdings and Starbucks have announced the location of their third store in South Africa...
18 Aug The future of tea: Tetley’s top five predictions
From teas enriched with medicines to programmable tea taps, the humble brew could see a dramatic evolution over the coming years, says Tetley. Even the concept of tea consumed as a liquid could be challenged.
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18 Aug Taxing sugar producers would be sweetest solution
SA Treasury's proposed sugar tax has a laudable objective, but as it stands, the tax is "unwieldy, it will be near impossible to police and, critically, would do little to target hidden sugars in many of the other foods we consume". Some cogent comment from...
17 Aug Local wine industry blooms as world seeks more SA wines
South African wine exports are projected to grow 13% in the next decade, according to the latest Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy baseline report, which provides a snapshot of the country’s wine industry and the broader agricultural sector.
...17 Aug Beverage association study says sugar tax could cost 70,000 jobs
The Beverage Association of SA, whose members include almost all manufacturers of non-alcoholic drinks in the country, has warned that up to 70,000 jobs in the industry could be lost if the Treasury’s mooted tax on sugar-sweetened drinks were implemented in its current form.
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16 Aug How to best stop hot drink spills
Coffee’s propensity to spill has long puzzled physicists, for whom caffeine is generally as important to their science as equations. Now a study has found the most practical way to prevent coffee spills...
11 Aug Cargill’s breakthrough sweetener presents a marketing challenge
Cargill has started making a sugarlike product that seems perfect. It tastes like sugar, has zero calories, mimics natural sweeteners and won’t destroy farmland or forests. It could be very big. There’s just one problem: It's made in a lab.
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11 Aug Commercialisation of breakthrough LiquiForm technology
The LiquiForm Group has partnered with Krones to develop and commercialise its new liquid forming and filling process that's claimed to have the potential to be one of the most important breakthrough technologies in liquid packaging.
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11 Aug UK: Younger consumers eschew tea for multiple reasons
With National Afternoon Tea Week steaming ahead this week In the UK (8th-14th August), new research from Mintel indicates that older consumers may be the first to clink their cups and saucers in celebration.
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11 Aug Sherry makes comeback
Sherry, once the go-to aperitif for the English tea-drinking classes, has been making a comeback, against the odds, and with such dramatic force that the power of its appeal needs understanding and interpretation, writes Michael Fridjohn.
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10 Aug Countdown to fdt-Africa 2016 expo
Food and beverages are an important economic factor for Southern Africa. food & drink technology Africa, the trade fair for processing, filling, packaging and logistics, will present the industry’s latest developments on September 14 -15, 2016.
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03 Aug Baobab is taking the food and beverage industry by storm
With 50 percent more antioxidants than acai, this African-Arabian superfruit is experiencing explosive growth within the US food and beverage industry.
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03 Aug Coca-Cola turns to baobab in new low cal soft drink brand
Is this a new and bigger defining moment for an African ingredient? Coca-Cola has launched a soft drink which contains baobab extract: a beverage that could be rolled out globally in the future.
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03 Aug Courting consumers with ‘healthier’ alcoholic drinks
Spirits companies and brewers are rolling out vegan, all-natural, gluten-free and non-alcoholic offerings, as consumer preferences shift.
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03 Aug Temporary tattoo tracks blood alcohol levels
New ways of tracking the contents of sweat has opened up some exciting possibilities in health monitoring, from checking insulin levels for diabetics to painting much broader pictures of our well-being. Alcohol trackers are a part of this mix, and a...
03 Aug How four cousins made wine a classless drink
Van Loveren Vineyard's Four Cousins brand hit the shelves 15 years ago and is now a leader in SA's mass-market glass bottle category.
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03 Aug SA’s sugar tax = soda wars?
National Treasury’s proposed sugar tax will discriminate sharply between different parts of the soft drink market, with an effective tax rate of anything between 8% and 50% on different products, reports City Press.
...13 Jul CGCSA: Sugar tax poses ‘real and unforeseen risks’
The Consumer Goods Council of SA and its members are concerned about the rising levels of obesity in SA, but believe that the proposed taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages and sugar-sweetened food pose real and unforeseen risks to the industry and wider economy.
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