News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Soy appears to deliver tangible health benefits for the heart, brain and kidney health but more research is needed in many areas, heard a large audience attending this year's Soy and Health conference.
Food companies around Europe are adding heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids to traditional products as they seek to meet increasing consumer demand for healthy food.
Breakthroughs in the lab provide food makers with a competitively priced technology designed by Danish enzyme leader Novozymes to cut the artery-clogging trans fats out of food products, writes Lindsey Partos.
A meat preserver, a gel-forming additive and an anti-microbial agent face tougher European rules as Brussels adopts a proposal to change the current food additive directive.
Ending months of speculation, the flavours and texturants units at Degussa, Germany's third largest chemicals group, are up for sale as the firm looks at selling the food ingredients arm or finding a partner for its business.