Latest News in the food Industry

21 Jan 2015

Novozymes has announced its new corporate strategy, “Partnering for impact”. The strategy is accompanied by a new set of long-term social, environmental and financial targets and a new purpose statement which reads, “Together, we find biological ...

21 Jan 2015

Barry Callebaut has announced sales volume up 0.2% for the 3-month period, achieved against what the company believes was a market that declined by 1.8%. Sales revenue was up 15.1%. The increase was driven by resumed growth in Western Europe, the gourm...

20 Jan 2015

A new Canadean report finds that half of UK consumers are now aware of the health benefits of protein, presenting an expanding opportunity for protein enriched food and drinks. A survey in the report shows that 49% of UK consumers are now “very a...

20 Jan 2015

Lesaffre claims that it is to break new ground and launch a range of organic baking products to help bakers produce top-quality organic bread in line with European regulations. The ‘Biorganic’ label includes yeast, sourdough and bread improvers in its ...

20 Jan 2015

Evolva and Cargill have signed an agreement to co-develop a sustainable, customisable, and cost-effective fermentation production process for a second family of high-value food and beverage ingredients. This additional collaboration between the two com...

20 Jan 2015

Arla Foods, the farmer-owned dairy company, has launched Arla Protein into the yogurt category. Made from natural ingredients, Arla Protein is high in protein and fat-free. It will initially be available in Raspberry, Strawberry and Blueberry flavours ...

19 Jan 2015

After a decade of research, BioHarvest, a consumer health and wellness company, has announced what it describes as a revolutionary new product: VINIA Red Grape Powder. Available initially in the U.S. market, it is said to be the first-ever biofood, a n...

19 Jan 2015

Renewable oil and ingredients company Solazyme has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a favourable response to Solazyme’s notification concluding that Whole Algal Protein is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) as an ing...

19 Jan 2015

Americans are committing to taking vitamins in 2015, according to a new survey conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN). The survey, conducted in December, asked over 2,000 U.S. adults to select (all that...

19 Jan 2015

A new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that a daily snack of 42 grams of almonds instead of a high-carbohydrate muffin with equivalent calories, consumed as part of an overall healthy diet, improved a number of hea...

16 Jan 2015

Arla has said that it plans to grow in several African markets in the coming years, but this growth must be achieved in a responsible way. Therefore,  Arla is implementing an updated human rights policy throughout its organisation to ensure that its gl...

16 Jan 2015

2014 ended on a high note for KitoZyme, the company has announced. “The detailed figures will be available in a few weeks’ time, but we already know that 2014 has seen strong growth in the company’s sales in its main areas of business. Our commercial e...