Wild Flavors has launched a new salt replacement product that it
claims blocks the negative taste of potassium chloride while
keeping the true taste and mouthfeel of salt.
High intake of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a type of fat found
naturally in cow's milk, is associated with a significantly lower
risk of bowel cancer, shows a new Swedish study.
Soy ingredients supplier Solae is the latest firm to be hit by
soaring costs for natural gas as the company announces price
increases for its line of soy lecithin products.
Biotech giant Monsanto has lost millions in international royalty
payments and is trailing its major competitor, Pioneer, in US
department of agriculture genetically modified (GM)-crop field
trials, according to a Canadian pressure...
Raw material costs start to bite as alginate supplier International
Specialty announces price rises on all its alginates-based products
from 1 November this year.
Evidence for folic acid's ability to reduce the adverse effects of
alcohol on breast cancer risk is stacking up, with the publication
of a prospective cohort study in the British Medical
Journal.
Major food grade carrageenan supplier FMC BioPolymer passes
spiralling energy prices onto the market, announcing a price hike
for its pharmaceutical and food brand products by 5 to 10 per cent.
Fiber sells if intake is linked to benefits such as energy
management, weight management and digestive health in popular foods
such as bread, cereal and pasta, claims a new report.
The World Health Organisation has created new guidelines for
governments in the fight against a growing chronic disease
pandemic, which are likely to add to the pressure already being
felt by European food makers.
Dairy producers' losses from Hurricane Katrina could easily exceed
$40m, says a US dairy association, highlighting the prospect of
immeasurable long-term damage and raising questions over when
disaster aid will get through.
The food industry has been hammered for making children overweight,
but one Californian parent believes that banning junk food in
schools is redundant unless another legal loophole is dealt with.
UK food agency alerts both food colour manufacturers and the
European Commission after local authority detects the banned food
dye Sudan 1 in a batch of legal Sunset Yellow food colour.
Galaxy Nutritional Foods' board of directors has given the go-ahead
to Goldman Sachs to investigate the potential sale of the company
and to contact prospective buyers.
Since it opened two years ago, Glanbia's R&D center in Twin
Falls, Idaho, has set about addressing some of the problems that
plague formulators working with whey protein ingredients. Jess
Halliday speaks to Eric Bastian,...
Leading US food manufacturer Kraft Foods has taken another step in
the direction of health and wellness, launching a new line of
wholegrain snack products under its Nabisco brand.
Tate & Lyle's ice cream sweetening system has been named as one
of the finalists at a forthcoming trade show competition, though
the company may soon face a struggle to protect its valuable
sucralose patent.
A final ruling that requires all manufacturers to register with the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is designed to ensure that the
country's food supply remains safe from possible attack.
Environmental organizations claim that new food tolerances for the
fluoride-based pesticide sulfuryl fluoride could be potentially
damaging to public health.
Targeting growing demand for fat-reduced food formulations, Danish
emulsifier firm Palsgaard launches a new emulsifier-stabiliser
system for chilled, quark based aerated desserts.
The US is on its way to lowering processing times for Parmesan
cheese - a move bound to inflame producers in Italy, threaten their
sales and encourage further battles over rights to the name.
A leading manufacturer of hydrolyzed vegetable proteins for the
food industry has reformulated its product line in order to meet
non trans-fat label requirements.
The decision to adjust the maximum sodium levels permitted for
foods that bear the implied nutrient content claim 'healthy'
underlines continued consumer reticence towards low-salt products.
The kids' version of the USDA's food pyramid is as ineffective as
the adult version in conveying sound nutritional advice, according
to a major public health body.
Sucralose supplier Tate and Lyle warns profits at its European
sugar refining business have been "substantially reduced"
due to higher costs and oversupplies.
Senator Tom Harkin has called for a radical overhaul of USDA food
standards in order to drag them into line with current thinking on
obesity and nutrition.
The North American sweetener industry has rushed to denounce a
study linking aspartame with an increased risk of leukemia and
lymphoma in rats, fearful that such negative publicity could dent
industry growth.
There is nothing so redolent of a corporate mid-life crisis as the
strategic equivalent of a new car, new girl and new image, set
firmly on the shoulders of the same old idea. McDonald's, it seems,
is firmly in the throes of...
Following a low-fat vegan diet may boost weight loss by more than a
standard cholesterol-control diet containing meat and
animal-derivatives, indicates a new study - despite the vegan
participants upping their intake of carbohydrates.
Most adults blame parents for America's current adolescent obesity
crisis, though the proliferation of junk food remains a critical
concern according to a new report.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) has called for
substantial reductions in 'trade distorting tariffs and subsidies'
and a rejection of the EU's proposals regarding geographical
indications.
A UK lobby group is targeting the Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil
industries, claiming that intense farming of plantations is
threatening the orang-utan with extinction.
Danisco has announced the next phase in its global cultures
expansion programme, investing €3 million in ramping up production
capacity of freeze-dried cultures at its plant in Sassenge.
General Mills' net sales increase of three percent to $2.66 billion
for fiscal 2006 first quarter has been dampened by fears that
higher fuel prices will put pressure on earnings for the rest of
the year.
The US corn industry has slammed an investigation into alleged
injurious dumping and subsidizing of grain corn by the United
States as being "fundamentally flawed".
Record high gasoline prices and the impact of Hurricane Katrina are
leading large numbers of consumers to change how they shop and
spend, says a market research firm.
