PepsiCo spent two years surveying consumers, conducting taste tests, and tinkering with soft drink recipes in order to fix Diet Pepsi, only to find it had completely misread what its customers wanted.
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Namibia Breweries has updated the look of Windhoek Lager to revitalise the brand.
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Two in five US consumers are replacing their breakfast with nutritional and performance drinks, finds a new Mintel study.
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Cow's milk is routinely pasteurised and homogenised to make it safe and consistent. Believing this eliminates much of its goodness and flavour, as well as trying to find some market differentiation, Australian outfit, Made by Cow, has invested in a new cold press method that...
Philly, America's fifth-largest city, is the biggest US city to slap a tax on sweet drinks, after a bitter battle...
The humble carrot has celebrity status at Greenway Farms where man and machine work in fine-tuned harmony and where the owners are embarking on a bold new high-tech adventure in juicing.
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Coffee does not cause cancer, says the WHO, but hot drinks might...
Monster Beverages has unveiled two new products: Mutant, an energy “super soda,” and Hydro, an energy-enhanced, non-carbonated hydration beverage. The company introduced the new beverages at its annual shareholder meeting last week.
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Keurig is axing its at-home soda machine, Keurig Kold, just nine months after its debut. The company was hoping that the $370 machine would give it a new avenue for growth beyond coffee. But it has failed miserably.
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Age, indigestion and sleep apnea are all suspects. But if you can set your watch by your middle-of-the-night risings, blame alcohol.
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A new study and report by Campden BRI in the UK – A healthy perspective on beer? – highlights the nutritional and health benefits of beer when enjoyed in moderation, and confirms that, contrary to popular belief, beer is low in sugar compared to other...
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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