Latest news in the food and nutraceutical industry

24 Nov 2023

Consumers will gravitate to brands that are putting the “plant” back in “plant-based” with fewer ingredients overall and more vegetables and protein content, according to 2024 trend predictions from Whole Foods Market.

17 Nov 2023

While breast milk is often hailed as nature's gold standard for infant nutrition, it’s not always readily available. Enter infant formula enriched with human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), a game-changing product that seek to mirror the composition of b...

13 Nov 2023

Several Asia-Pacific nations sign an MOU and launch a new platform for cross-border collaboration to speed up regulatory review processes and approval.

10 Nov 2023

Dutch functional water brand, FUL, uses spirulina as a sustainable and nutritious ingredient in its low-carbon FUL Water and is looking to expand into smoothies, juices, and snacks.

27 Oct 2023

Plant-based ice cream brand Pink Albatross has made its clean label ingredient list a focal point of its branding and packaging. “We only use ingredients we can draw…. And it's quite difficult to draw methylcellulose or mono and di-glycerides of fatty ...

18 Oct 2023

Increasing awareness about processing levels and methods, healthy ageing for Gen X consumers, and the implications of technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on food and drink products feature amongst the top consumer trends for 2024, a Mintel repo...

11 Oct 2023

Danish startup Circular Food Technology produces high-fibre, high-protein flours from upcycled brewer’s spent grain and is gearing up to supply the bakery and bread market.

9 Oct 2023

Demand for high-quality, food security and climate-facing solutions has prompted an accelerated wave of southeast Asian startups using food tech, according to a report by Forward Fooding.

28 Sep 2023

Korean food technology company HN-Novatech secures $4 million in funding and has unveiled a proprietary seaweed heme ingredient for healthy plant-based alternatives in Singapore.

19 Sep 2023

Thanks to the guochao trend, Chinese consumers see ‘Made in China’ products as trendy and Western brands are capitalising on this with regional flavours or Chinese-style branding. But guochao has become more nuanced and consumers are increasingly wise ...

15 Sep 2023

US pet food brand Noochies uses nutritional yeast to make its meat-free, healthy dog food and freeze-dried snacks for cats and dogs – a humane pet food range that is free from factory farming meat, it says.

11 Sep 2023

A first for the industry, Dutch cultivated meat company Mosa Meat announced that it has received B Corp certification and will soon apply for regulatory approval across the globe.