Archives for October 6, 2004

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Beer with a caffeine boost

Anheuser-Busch has created a beer for those who fancy a night on the tiles but need that little extra something to pep them up.

Sales 'sustained' at Givaudan

Number one flavour group Givaudan sees beverage and dairy sales pulled down in Europe but despite slow-down in flavour operations sales for the division offset a dip in fragrance for nine months to September.

Cargill-Monsanto to market trans-fat alternative

Cargill, the largest private firm in the US, will link up with biotech giant Monsanto to bring food makers an alternative source of soybean oil, used to reduce the artery-clogging trans fats in food products.

Aspartame defended as safe

An editorial in the British Medical Journal this month that concludes criticisms of aspartame are 'unfounded' adds fuel to the ongoing debate surrounding this popular sweetener used widely in food and beverage applications.

Advertising watchdog upholds complaint on breakfast cereal

Food makers need to be alert to nutritional claims as UK advertising watchdog comes down on number one breakfast cereal supplier Kellogg's, claiming a recent cinema advertisement for its Frosties brand was 'misleading' because it implied the cereal...

Tomato leads genome project

Resources are being poured into research on a health promoting ingredient used widely in the food industry as scientists set to sequence a portion of the gene-rich regions of 12 tomato chromosomes.

Individual taste profiles to drive future formulation?

Foods of the future may well be anchored in individual taste profiles as fundamental research by scientists at the Swiss food giant Nestlé details the diversity of bitter taste receptors in monkeys, chimpanzees and humans, writes Lindsey Partos,...

Food scientists design listeria detection sensor

Food scientists continue to roll out tools in the fight against foodborne pathogens as researchers in the US design a new biosensor to detect the potentially deadly bacteria Listeria monocytogenes.