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Frito-Lay releases its new U.S. Snack Index, shows summer trends
29 May 2020
Frito-Lay’s annual snacking index reveals that 86% of Americans believe their summertime activities, and consequently their snacking habits, will be different this year due to COVID-19. Typical snacking occasions like group gatherings are not anticipat...
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Nestlé plans $100M plant-based manufacturing facility in China
27 May 2020
Swiss food giant Nestlé recently announced that it will invest 100 million Swiss francs ($103 million USD) to open a plant-based food manufacturing facility in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), which is 72 miles outside of Bei...
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Malaysian firm develops package-less packaging
26 May 2020
A group of Malaysian Ph.D. students won the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Save our Seas global engineering challenge with their new bagless approach to food packaging called the PICAS block. The competition is hosted in partnership wi...
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UPDATED Timeline: Impacts of COVID-19 on the global food industry
25 May 2020
The number of people affected by Covid-19 continues to climb, with confirmed cases surpassing 5.5 million and the number of deaths at nearly 347,000 worldwide as of May 25.
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Mintel: coronavirus spurred French consumer toward local and functional foods
25 May 2020
After two months of strict confinement in France, market insights firm Mintel discovered that French consumer preferences have shifted to favor both local products and functional foods in a more pronounced manner than before the government enacted quar...
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Sustainable palm oil: Tackling the consumer awareness challenge
24 May 2020
Palm oil has some major image problems, but its production is essential to the livelihoods of many smallholders and processors in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. How can western consumers be convinced that sustainably produced palm oil is an ingredient w...
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Upcycling opportunities in a post-pandemic world
23 May 2020
The food industry has made strides in reducing food waste in recent years – and a growing number of consumers has embraced a ‘zero waste’ goal – but it has re-emerged as a major problem during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 may permanently change how we buy alcohol
21 May 2020
Online sales of alcohol are skyrocketing due to restrictions on movement that inhibit consumers from enjoying their favorite cocktails outside the confines of their house and deter in-person trips to the supermarket. According to data from Nielsen, e-c...
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U.S. online grocery sales surge 37% in April
21 May 2020
April was another record-breaking month for online grocery sales with shoppers surpassing March’s record-breaking $4 billion in sales to spend $5.3 billion for grocery delivery and pickup. This is a 37% increase over March, according to data from Brick...
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Report: Frozen Food sales to remain strong post-COVID 19
21 May 2020
March represented the peak for all frozen food sales in the U.S. with dollar figures rocketing 94% above the levels for the same time last year. However, things cooled off in April where volume sales were 30% to 35% above the same period last year. Ove...
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Ethanol shortages may affect the shelf life of packaged foods
20 May 2020
As demand for fuel has collapsed during the pandemic, so too has ethanol production – which is blended into gasoline – and its byproduct CO2. Due to CO2’s integral role in food production, fears about a shortage of carbon dioxide have spurred predicti...
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Innovative Grinding Systems for the Food Industry
20 May 2020
The area of fine-grinding has a special role within the process chain in food production, as here the product determines the technology to be used as in no other processing step.
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