Latest News in the food Industry

17 May 2023

Do health and wellness products need to be affordable or are consumers willing to pay a premium for a health benefit despite the cost-of-living crisis? We asked two leading market experts – and received different answers.

16 May 2023

Former US First Lady Michelle Obama is entering the consumer packaged goods space with Plezi Nutrition, a new healthy food and beverage brand for children.

15 May 2023

Singapore-based startup Jungle Kitchen has entered the vegan food market with its range of foods that include regional ingredients such as jack fruit, banana blossom, and cobra chili.

12 May 2023

Nutri Co uses artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce product formulation time, allowing it to offer healthy products with local ingredients at a low cost, serving the price-sensitive Peruvian market.

11 May 2023

The Latin American vitamin and mineral supplement market is bullish, with Argentina, Panama, and Mexico recording the highest growth in the past five years, according to the Latin American Alliance for Responsible Nutrition (ALANUR).

10 May 2023

A growing number of Asian food and drink brands are using upcycled ingredients, such as soy okara, banana stems, and broken rice, as a source of sustainable nutrition for their products.

9 May 2023

Mondelēz-owned chocolate drink brand Bournvita has become embroiled in a legal spat with an Indian social media influencer who questioned the purported healthiness of the high-sugar product.

8 May 2023

The Israeli Ministry of Health has approved precision fermentation startup Remilk’s animal-free dairy whey protein, meaning its ingredients can now be marketed and sold in Israel.

5 May 2023

The Canadian government has announced gene-edited seeds and plant materials will be not classified as genetically modified (GM) but considered as conventional, prompting both support and condemnation from different agri-food actors.

4 May 2023

Consumers in Thailand say they want to eat healthier but that fresh, nutritious food is too expensive and inaccessible for the average person, according to Mintel.

3 May 2023

A recent British Medical Journal (BMJ) review advises people to cut intake of added sugars to six teaspoons a day but industry group The Sugar Association has slammed the quality of data used in the review as “garbage”.

2 May 2023

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has proposed limits for Bisphenol A – a chemical known to be harmful to health – that are 20,000 times lower than before, but they may be “totally unrealistic” for the food industry to meet, says one food safet...