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Deal or no deal?

Deal or no deal?

By Rick Pendrous

Dutch food giant Vion remained tight-lipped on its rumoured purchase of the UK’s Grampian Country Food Group - a deal reportedly worth £350M - as...

New face for Greencore communications

New face for Greencore communications

Eoin Tonge is to take over the corporate communications role at Greencore from Jonathan Grant-Nicholas, who is retiring at the end of April after 45...

FSA defends call for additives ban

FSA defends call for additives ban

By Elaine Watson

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has rejected claims that its call to ban the food colours used in a high-profile study by Southampton University...

Moving on up

Moving on up

P roducts to keep joints and bones healthy for longer will take centre stage at Vitafoods. One company hoping to entice visitors in the joint health...

The Big issue

The Big issue

Whether they boost satiety, speed up metabolism, inhibit protein breakdown or block fat absorption, weight management ingredients are potentially big...

Hearts & minds

Hearts & minds

The big launch at this year's show is DSM Food Specialties' Tensguard, a new non-fat hydrolysate containing bioactive peptides targeting the growing...

Beauty & the feast

Beauty & the feast

Feeding your face is potentially big business, although estimates of market size vary dramatically. But most sources agree that cosmeceuticals are...

Vitafoods show preview 2008

Vitafoods show preview 2008

With more than 450 companies plugging their wares to 6,000 visitors, Vitafoods is the place to be if you are interested in buying or selling ingredients for the burgeoning health and wellness, nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals markets. This year's...

Eat yourself pretty

Eat yourself pretty

With consumers wanting instant results and the EU wanting tighter regulation, the beauty foods market is no easy ride for manufacturers. Lynda Searby reports

Worth its salt?

Worth its salt?

Is the holy grail of salt replacement now finally within reach? Michelle Knott talks to the companies at the cutting edge of research to find out

Fruit and nuts

Fruit and nuts

Goji berries or blueberries? Oats or quinoa? The world is nuts about superfoods but how super are they? By RTS Resource

The white stuff

The white stuff

It's only when you start trying to remove or replace it that you realise what a versatile and important ingredient sugar actually is, British Sugar's head of food science tells Elaine Watson

Pure and simple?

Pure and simple?

The European Commission continues to disappoint with its proposed new regulations on the provision of food information to consumers, says Neville Craddock

Feeling the pulse

Feeling the pulse

They're low-fat, low-GI, gluten free, packed with cholesterol-busting prebiotic fibres, protein, vitamins and folate and considerably less pricey than their rivals in the superfood stakes. But how many consumers know what to do with a packet of beans,...

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