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Bakery & Snacks

Nactarome’s One Table enhances natural innovation

2 Oct 2025

Nactarome’s One Table vision brings natural flavour, taste, and colour solutions to empower food and beverage brands to meet market challenges while still meeting consumers where they’re at.

India’s biscuit and cookie consumers want extra indulgence

16 Sep 2025

Premiumisation, health consciousness, and a focus on texture are driving new product developments (NPD) in the Indian biscuit and cookie market, Mintel figures suggest.

Is chocolate about to have an indulgence makeover?

9 Sep 2025

Researchers who have replicated the traditional on-farm fermentation process behind chocolate’s flavour in a lab say they hope their work could herald “a new era in chocolate production”.

Climate change threatens matcha supplies as social media fuels matcha mania

8 Sep 2025

Matcha’s popularity is rising across the globe, yet shrinking harvests caused by record-breaking heatwaves in Japan are dwindling global supplies.

Kraft Heinz splits after a decade of post-merger underperformance

4 Sep 2025

Kraft Heinz has announced plans to split into two independent businesses by the second half of 2026, a decade after it was created in a mega-merger.

Tesco pledges to build on its circular economy model

25 Aug 2025

Building on the success of its Northamptonshire facility, where surplus bakery and produce are turned into animal feed, Tesco is expanding its food waste efforts as part of the circular economy.

Australia's snacking sector achieves near-universal appeal

22 Aug 2025

As many as 99% of Australian consumers snack daily, with generational differences and increasing demands presenting novel manufacturing opportunities, according to Mintel data.

Non-profit calls on Trump administration to support sugar reduction

21 Aug 2025

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is calling on the US government to create policies that focus on less sugar, not different sugar.

Analysis: Can the UK’s new healthy food rules work?

31 Jul 2025

Industry insiders are hailing the UK’s new healthy food rules as “the next big moment” in food policy. But how will they work in practice – and will they have any impact on the worst offenders?