Inside food & drink manufacturing
Around 2.3m women admitted eating chocolate more than three times a day, but over 70% of all women said they felt guilty for eating it, with health and weight-management cited as the top reasons for feeling guilty, new research shows.
Ethnic breadmaker Honeytop Speciality Foods has moved into the morning goods sector after making a major investment in its Dunstable factory. This has resulted in some "exciting new product launches", according to Honeytop's new product development...
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I was in Frankfurt chairing a conference on low fat, salt and sugar when the Icelandic volcano discharged its cloud of volcanic ash.
A new fruit juice with an extended shelf-life has been launched in the UK, thanks to a novel processing technique.
Grains of rice have been produced weighing as much as 78mg each. This is way above the typical weight of 23mg per grain.
The acquisition of National Starch appears to be off the agenda at Tate & Lyle, with the firm now "set to fall into enemy hands", according to analysts at Investec Securities.
Gaudins Patisserie has manufactured celebrity chef Shaun Rankin's new Bakewell Tart. The tart is the second in the range, following the launch of Rankin's Treacle Tart the dessert that was described as "high art" when he made it on the BBC2 programme...
The second issue of the Food Standards Agency's magazine Bite focused on nanotechnology and its potential for developing novel foods.
Organic dairy manufacturer Yeo Valley has saved £30,000 and 368t of carbon dioxide by replacing old compressors with more energy-efficient versions and installing variable speed drives on condenser units.
A new innovation centre at Norwich Research Park with space to house up to 300 staff will be fully operational next month.
The plastics packaging industry has called on the new government to make new decentralised waste-to-energy plants a central part of its energy policy.
A university was granted approval to begin anti-obesity experiments on humans last month, after it discovered that seaweed could reduce fat digestion by around three quarters.
The dairy supply chain is on track to meet its 2010 Milk Roadmap targets, and could raise the bar even higher for the future.
The recent Loughborough University report on oxodegradable plastics was supposed to draw a line under the long-running argument between the champions of different types of degradability.
'Academic' references provided by the food industry to support applications under the EU health claims Regulation included excerpts from the Old Testament, Wikipedia, a Tea Association press release, a Royal Air Force report and the American Heritage...
Contract packing and re-working is proving lucrative for Culina Logistics, with the firm's annual turnover from these services set to total £7-8m, having established a deal to grow this business earlier this year.
As delegates heard at a recent British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) conference, consumers are born with an innate preference for sweet tastes, perhaps because in evolutionary terms it signals safe food and energy provision.
Industry should no longer ignore the growing body of evidence suggesting that coffee has a protective effect on cognitive health and diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's, urged an industry expert.
Freshway Dairy could face a fine of up to £270,000, after 24 men were arrested at its manufacturing site for immigration offences.