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Innovation
VMG, TerraVia create TerraBrands
13 Apr 2016
VMG Partners, a private equity fund focused exclusively on partnering with emerging branded consumer product companies, and algae-based food, nutrition and specialty ingredients company TerraVia (formerly known as Solazyme) have launched TerraBrands.
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True Made Foods wins
1 Apr 2016
Rabobank has announced that True Made Foods has won the FoodBytes! Brooklyn People’s Choice Award. True Made Foods is a startup company that uses fresh vegetables to naturally sweeten its products.
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Imitation products: where to draw the line?
24 Nov 2015
Earlier this year I noticed a commercial for concentrated syrup in a bottle with a dispensing pump: interesting, different, distinguishing! But… at the same time I had a different thought: “doesn’t this look a lot like those dispensing pumps for liquid...
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Protein innovation set to continue!
24 Nov 2015
High protein products continue to be launched across a range of food and drink categories. Consequently, novel protein ingredients are emerging to meet the demand from manufacturers for innovative solutions for protein fortification in...
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Can we safely use recycled plastic as food contact material?
12 Nov 2015
At the NVC Netherlands Packaging Centre we receive questions about food contact materials legislation on a regular basis. The European Union laws in this field are extensive but in general reasonably clear.
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Campden BRI publishes ‘needs’ statement
7 Jan 2015
A new statement of what industry needs from science and technology has been published by Campden BRI. The document was compiled following an extensive consultation of Campden BRI’s industrial members – some 2,400 companies across 75 countries. The ‘nee...
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Magic Leaves
28 Nov 2014
Sometimes, the most terrible problems have unexpected solutions. For example: in the tropics, there is a miraculous tree whose leaves are extremely nutritious. The leaves of the moringa tree contain more vitamins and minerals than most natural food we ...
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Colouring Foodstuffs – Clarifying Their Clean Label Contribution
25 Nov 2014
While consumers are now tending to approach the term “natural” with more caution with the realisation that there is no legal definition of what it actually means, there is still considerable interest in clean-label, “all-natural” and additive/preservat...
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European Consumers Await Next Generation Functional Dairy Drinks
17 Nov 2014
The European dairy industry has operated in a challenging regulatory environment in recent years as the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) worked its way through a series of health claim dossiers for functional products. A high level of uncertainty ...
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The Complete Package – Packaging
10 Nov 2014
Packaging within the food and drink industry is not only one of the largest sectors – it’s also one of the most innovative. With the sheer volume of products developed and released a year, it’s somewhat of a mission keeping up with all the ideas ...
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Industry Interplay in Food Packaging
4 Nov 2014
Sterilization, opening mechanisms, packaging for longer life, speed, hygiene, cost-effectiveness, reducing waste, ease of use…. packaging for solid product, for liquid product, for viscous product….into cups, bottles, trays…..packaging for market appea...
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Health and Wellness: Trends in 2014 [VIDEO]
29 Oct 2014
Euromonitor International’s latest health and wellness data shows that globally, the health and wellness industry saw 6.5% growth between 2013-2014, reaching US$773 billion in total sales. Important differences in consumer demand remain between emergi...
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