Is Kombucha, the carbonated beverage made from fermented tea, truly a miracle elixir? Here, young food scientists from www.donteatpseudo.wordpress.com uncover kombucha, how it's made, and whether its suggested health benefits stand up to science.
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Starbucks is partnering with a beer giant to enter a $1 billion business — but it's not for coffee or beer. Rather America's biggest beer and coffee makers are coming together over tea.
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At 9.45am each day, more than 1 000 Indian Runner ducks are released for the first of two sorties at South Africa's Vergenoegd vineyard in Stellenbosch. Their mission: seek and eat thousands of tiny white dune snails feasting on budding vines.
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You may not be able to turn water into wine. But SodaStream is one step closer to making premium libations at home with its instant beer-making machine.
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One of the most fascinating stories fuelling the current South African wine revolution is the rise of Cinsaut, or Cinsault.
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Here's a brilliant item of packaging innovation from a craft beer company, the Saltwater Brewery, in Florida: eco-friendly, edible, six pack can carrier ring – one of the leading sources of ocean pollution and death for many sea creatures that get tangled up in...
“We can turn water into wine in 15 minutes.” So claims the Ava Winery, a San Francisco start-up that is making synthetic wine without grapes – simply by combining flavour compounds and ethanol.
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Banning alcohol for 18-21-year-olds is irrational because their inebriation induces no more than a tiny fraction of all violent crimes and road accidents, argues the irrepressible Leon Louw of the Free Market Foundation.
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Demystification and democratisation initiatives will allow the wine category to breathe and venture out of its stuffy cellar of complacency and stiff traditionalism, contends Euromonitor analyst, Spiros Malandrakis, in his usual rather-literary style!
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Now is not a great time to be in the sugar business. On the health front, Philadelphia is joining the list of cities that want to tax people on sugar-sweetened drinks, and the FDA just approved a new nutrition label that would place...
Immediately before this year’s food & drink technology Africa expo, the “MicroBrew Symposium South Africa 2016“ will take place on September 13, 2016, at Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand. The symposium will address craft and microbrewers in SA and neighbouring countries.
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It is screamingly apparent that AB InBev’s attraction for SABMiller lay in its emerging market operations in Latin America and Africa, asserts the Financial Mail.
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The operational assets of iconic liquor business KWV Holdings — controlled by empowerment giant Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) — is to be sold for R1.15bn to a firm aligned to South African entrepreneur Vivian Imerman.
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If South Africans don’t drastically reduce the number of cool drinks, juices and sugar-sweetened beverages they drink every day, there will be more than nine million obese adults in the country by 2017.
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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts has been sold to the Reimann family, one of Europe’s wealthiest and most secretive business dynasties, for $1.35bn.
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With burgeoning global demand for juices and sports drinks as 'healthy' alternatives to traditional sodas, bottlers looking to grow in this market have to adapt their technology, with hot fill methodology fitting the brief. Among them is Gauteng's Coca-Cola Canners who has been operating a...
Budweiser, the so-called King of Beers, may be on its last kegs, the victim of distruptive technology and fast-track brands. Never?! Never say never...
The astonishing reception for its first two stores appears to have led Starbucks to bump up its SA plans.
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South African and UK soft drinks manufacturers will soon be subject to a sugar taxes on their products. After the anger and frustration, there's an even greater urgency to reformulate beverages seen to be a key factor in the globesity epidemic.
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Introducing Sxollie craft cider, a start-up SA brand its owners want to see "standing up on tables, kicking and screaming and telling the world about the cider revolution".
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