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Shorter drying time, sweeter success!

Shorter drying time, sweeter success!

30 Oct 2025

Curious about cost-effective, sustainable and delicious candy making? Stefan Wessel reveals how Avebe’s solutions reduce drying time and energy use by up to 50%.

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Agrigum Redefined FIBER

Agrigum Redefined FIBER

27 Oct 2025

Agrigum has transformed gum acacia into a natural, science-backed fibre that supports gut health, sustainability, and innovation across global food and nutrition applications.

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Amazon Grocery launch aims to balance quality with affordability

Amazon Grocery launch aims to balance quality with affordability

22 Oct 2025

Global e-commerce giant Amazon has introduced a new private-label food brand, combining existing Amazon Fresh and Happy Belly products with new everyday items.

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Choose delicious and versatile US peanut ingredients

Choose delicious and versatile US peanut ingredients

15 Oct 2025

The US supplies high quality, great tasting peanuts in a wide range of forms, from inshells or whole kernels, through to granulated peanuts, peanut butters, pastes, flours, oils and extract.

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Change at the top for Nestlé as it welcomes new leadership roles

Change at the top for Nestlé as it welcomes new leadership roles

7 Oct 2025

Nestlé has welcomed two new CEOs and a new chairman to its board of directors, marking a period of change at the top for the global company.

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Nactarome’s One Table enhances natural innovation

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.

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India’s biscuit and cookie consumers want extra indulgence

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.

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Is chocolate about to have an indulgence makeover?

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”.

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Tantrums and treats: Baby food manufacturers given 18 months to cut sugar and salt

Tantrums and treats: Baby food manufacturers given 18 months to cut sugar and salt

27 Aug 2025

UK baby food manufacturers have been given 18 months to cut sugar and salt levels in their products, as well as tackle “misleading labelling” that “conflicts with official feeding advice”.

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Non-profit calls on Trump administration to support sugar reduction

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.

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

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?

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Findings strengthen evidence for link between processed foods and chronic disease

Findings strengthen evidence for link between processed foods and chronic disease

29 Jul 2025

A US study has provided further evidence for the relationship between consumption of UPFs – in particular, processed meat – and chronic disease risk.

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