Archives for April 21, 2013

Unilever files international ‘tea juice’ patent to boost tea taste and color

Unilever has filed an international patent for a process that creates tea juices with improved taste and color, to cater for the upsurge in demand for tea powders and RTD drinks with minimal processing and higher levels of bioactive compounds.

Special edition: Sodium reduction - The road ahead

Food manufacturers might have cut out 'hundreds of tons' of salt, but US sodium intakes have continued to rise steadily, reveals new study

Food manufacturers have spent a small fortune reformulating everything from bread to soup to reduce sodium in recent years, but new data suggests that US intakes have nevertheless continued to rise steadily.

Special edition: Sodium reduction - The road ahead

Should the FDA mandate sodium reduction targets, or are voluntary approaches working?

If consumers are not demanding lower-sodium products (at least not en masse), and the government does not mandate them, what incentive is there for manufacturers to make the kind of across-the-board reductions needed to deliver a meaningful reduction in...

At-home taste tests may boost new product success, claim researchers

Dutch researchers have developed an at-home system for consumer testing of new food products, claiming it could be a more reliable way of predicting product success.