While consumers may think twice about buying a large box of cereal featuring a new functional ingredient, they are much more willing to try new things in the beverage category, which is a hotbed of innovation right now, two leading ingredients suppliers tell FoodNavigator-USA.
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Since he became the head of R&D about seven years ago, Dr Mehmood Khan has led what many at PepsiCo refer to as an R&D transformation. Evidence of his transformative thinking is abundant in packaging, as he believes that packaging now more than ever must be...
In what may prove to be badly timed news for those struggling to observe "dry January", Boston researchers have discovered that having up to seven drinks a week may give you a better chance of avoiding heart failure than people who abstain from alcohol completely.
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Starbucks is getting a new menu item. No, it's not another crazy seasonal Frappuccino. This time, the world's most massive coffee chain is taking a cue from a beverage created in the Southern Hemisphere, adding a drink that's known as a Flat White.
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Researchers at UC San Francisco have launched SugarScience, a groundbreaking research and education initiative designed to highlight the most authoritative scientific findings on added sugar and its impact on health.
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The lucrative premium juice market has exploded in the US, and with it, a new and heated debate over what makes a juice truly fresh. The controversy centers on HPP (alternately referred to as high pressure processing and high pressure pascalisation), where juices are treated...
KWV is set to take on the white spirits market as the new, exclusive distributor of Stolichnaya Premium Vodka and elit by Stolichnaya, for Stoli Group, part of the SPI Group who own these two iconic brands.
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The end/start of a year always brings voluminous trend insights and predictions — from research companies, newspapers, chefs, flavour-makers, food companies, bloggers...
Right now, there’s a product in America growing at an astronomical rate. In the past three years, its market share has surged more than fivefold. While this product is anything but new, it's now recovering from a near-death experience and, in fact, is making a...
The Coca-Cola Co is to axe up to 1,800 jobs across the world as a cost-cutting programme designed to save $3bn over the next four years kicks in to gear.
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Rhodes Food Group has announced it's buying the Wellington-based Pacmar fruit juice business for R165m, its first major acquisition since the company raised R600m when listing on the JSE in October last year.
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Three days of national mourning were under way in Mozambique today after 67 people died as a result of drinking contaminated beer at a funeral over the weekend.
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There's a revolution happening in South Africa's winelands where a handful of young impassioned friends are turning their backs on the very practices that have made the country's wine industry such a success.
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Chinese businessperson William Wu has purchased a 51% stake in Swartland Winery, one of South Africa's leading wineries based outside the Western Cape town of Malmesbury.
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A quarter of all Russian men die before they reach their mid-fifties and their passion for alcohol - particularly vodka - is largely to blame, according to new research published last week.
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PepsiCo is trying out a fruit-flavoured water brand called Drinkfinity developed in Brazil and initially only available in that country. The company refers to the new product as a "personal and portable hydration system", consisting of pods that are inserted into the top of a...
Renowned for its quality fruit juice blends, Ceres has added new value to eight variants of its 100% premium fruit juice range, by adding fruit cells for texture and repackaging the entire range in the stylish Tetra Pak Prisma.
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Local hygiene company, Pescatech, has launched a new product – BioFinder, a product that can detect biofilms in 30 seconds on any surface in the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
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In mid-November the Treasury hosted a workshop aimed at engaging with stakeholders on the subject of alcohol excise. From the first session it was clear the purpose of the event was to excoriate the demon drink as a prelude to justifying more onerous taxes on...
The Coca-Cola Company believes the Appletiser brand has "lots of legs" and the US-headquartered firm will look for opportunities to grow the niche brand, its regional head has said.
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