06 Sep US: The frozen concentrated orange-juice market has virtually disappeared
The once-thriving market for frozen orange-juice concentrate is getting squeezed - by disease, waning demand and the weather.
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06 Sep OP-ED: Sugar tax will have negligible impact on public health
While the media has “fact-checked” claims made by the beverage industry in opposition to a proposed tax on sugary drinks, claims made by the government in support of the tax have not been so scrutinised. They should be, because according to research the government itself...
06 Sep KWV’s world-first wine wins global innovation award
KWV's innovative, preservative-free Pinotage, Earth's Essence, has found more acclaim with a global food award presented by IUFoST, the International Union of Food Science and Technology.
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06 Sep SA début for the water enhancement category
South Africa has been slow to get into the water enhancement category - but that's now changed with a new range launched by East London fruit beverage company, Elvin.
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06 Sep Energy drink launches grow 29% in five years
New research from Mintel reveals standout results for global energy drink innovation.
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06 Sep US: Gatorade goes organic
Gatorade, the brightly coloured sports drink marketed by professional sports figures in advertising targeted at amateur athletes, is introducing an organic version.
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06 Sep US: Coca-Cola makes a move into cold brew coffee
Coca-Cola is launching its first cold brew coffee product and tea lattes under its billion-dollar RTD tea brand Gold Peak.
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01 Sep SA’s proposed sugar tax: checking claims about calories & job losses
South Africans may be paying more for sugary drinks if a proposed sugar tax is introduced. Will the implications be as far reaching as the soft drink industry claims? AFRICA CHECK investigated.
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24 Aug Sugar tax would have dire economic consequences, Bevsa says
The proposed levy on sugar-sweetened beverages could cost SA R14bn and destroy 10,000 small businesses, with highly uncertain benefits in terms of tax revenue and health benefits, the Beverage Association of SA (Bevsa) has claimed.
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23 Aug Nestlé fights to keep coffee crown from keen competitors
Nestlé is giving its instant coffee brand Nescafe and its Nespresso single-serve coffee a shot in the arm as fast-growing rivals with lean cost structures chip away at its global dominance.
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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.
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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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