
september 28, 2010
Six new mega-trends and market challenges are demanding product developers’ attention.
Consumers are demanding dramatic changes in the way that food companies formulate, process, and even flavor foods as they continue to look to the food industry for more natural health solutions and increasingly convenient meal options.From the archive

augustus 27, 2010
Desalting the Food grid
Product developers are responding to public health concerns about the sodium content of processed foods. What sodium-reduction tactics are they using?The methods food companies use to reduce sodium vary. Some plan simply to reduce the amount of salt in...From the archive

augustus 19, 2010
Frito-Lay on 'loud' SunChips biodegradable chip package: 'That's what change sounds like'
The world’s first 100 percent biodegradable chip packet – designed by Frito-Lay for its SunChips brand – has come in for criticism from Facebook members, with more than 30,000 agreeing the new packaging is too loud.From the archive

juli 29, 2010
Federal Task Force presents plan to cut Canada’s salt intake
A federal task force has delivered a plan to cut Canada’s salt habit to a teaspoon a day – a change that could save tens of thousands of lives a year – but insiders fear it has only tepid support from government and the food industry.The long-awaited r...From the archive
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juli 28, 2010
Starchology? National Starch's new buzzword for its science and art in starch
National Starch has a new word for the driving force behind all the technologies, capabilities and ingredient solutions the company provides customers: STARCHOLOGY.STARCHOLOGY is the centerpiece of a new identity that National Starch presented at the ...From the archive

juli 19, 2010
ConAgra Foods Completes Sale of Its Gilroy Foods & Flavors Dehydrated and Vegetable Product Operations
ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) announced today the completion of the sale of its Gilroy Foods &FlavorsTM dehydrated and vegetable product operations to Olam International for before-tax proceeds of $250 million in cash, net of transaction costs a...From the archive

juli 16, 2010
Fast Food Using Less Trans Fats
Trans fats have been showing up less often in fast-food restaurant meals.Research from the University of Minnesota's Nutrition Coordinating Center has shows major chains have significantly reduced their use of oils that contain trans fat in French frie...From the archive

juli 07, 2010
Mashed potato in foodservice on the rise
Mashed potatoes in foodservice operations are up 29% in the past four years. In Q1 2006, the top 350 chain restaurant menus listed 1,749 mashed potato menu items. In Q1 2010, there were 2,256. This is an important and positive trend for potatoes in foo...From the archive

juni 30, 2010
Biotech Start-up shows acrylamide reductions with special yeast
Functional Technologies Corp (TSX-V: FEB), a world leader in yeast research and development, today announced initial test results for bread made with its acrylamide-preventing yeast demonstrated reductions of acrylamide of approximately 90%.From the archive

juni 28, 2010
Frito-Lay introduces lower sodium Ruffles and Fritos
PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America business unit announced the introduction of two new Lightly Salted varieties of chips. Fritos Lightly Salted corn chips and Ruffles Lightly Salted potato chips join Lay’s Lightly Salted potato chips, which were launche...From the archive
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juni 21, 2010
National Starch acquired by Corn Products International
Corn Products International, Inc. (NYSE:CPO), a leading global provider of ingredient solutions for diversified industries, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire National Starch, a New Jersey-based global provider o...From the archive

juni 15, 2010
BASF Opens New Nutrition Ingredients Innovation Laboratory
BASF plans to strengthen its support services for the food and beverage industry and has established a new Nutrition Ingredients Innovation Laboratory at its technical center in Tarrytown, New York. BASF closed its existing laboratory in Ledgewood, New...From the archive

juni 07, 2010
ConAgra Foods to Sell Gilroy Foods & Flavors' Dehydrated & Vegetable Product Operations to Olam International
ConAgra Foods, Inc., announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell its Gilroy Foods &Flavors dehydrated and vegetable product operations to Olam International for $250 million, subject to final working capital adjustments. The seasoning ...From the archive

mei 28, 2010
Trans Fats replaced by Healthier Fats, Study Finds
Fears that removing harmful trans fats from foods would open the door for manufacturers and restaurants to add other harmful fats to foods seem to be unfounded, a new study finds. A team from Harvard School of Public Health analyzed 83 reformulated p...From the archive

mei 25, 2010
Spin fryer sheds oil, reduces calorie content
Entire fast-food empires have been built around the french fry. But companies still continue to pursue perfection -- as in, a better-for-you fry. The immodestly named Perfect Fry company, out of Calgary, claims to have nailed it. At the National Res...From the archive

mei 03, 2010
HVP recall continues – but far smaller than feared
Two more products have been recalled due to the possibility that they may contain salmonella-tainted hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) from Basic Food Flavors – but fears of a large-scale recall have proved unfounded.At the beginning of March, Food an...From the archive

