News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
With shortfalls in grain harvests progressively worsening over the past four years, closing the gap will not be easy, says Lester Brown at the Earth Policy Institute. He predicts this year may witness another shortfall, bad news for food makers and...
US biotech crop pioneer Monsanto is to suspend the introduction of the world's first biotech wheat, amid public outcry at the possible risks of genetically modified crops and at Monsanto's aggressive marketing tactics, writes Kevin Phillips.
Top ingredients supplier Danisco will phase out its activities in oil and protein crops in order to focus on sugar beet seed, said the Danish firm this week, in a move reflecting changes to the European sugar regime in 2006 that will slice into...
A food product on the shelf must satisfy a range of senses to earn consumer appeal. But US scientists claim that little understood contextual cues - food display, colours - can lead to people eating much more than they need.