News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The modern, domesticated chickpea has an extreme lack of genetic diversity, leaving it vulnerable to climate change, prompting scientists to seek out wild varieties for crossbreeding programmes.
A crackdown on retailing of “dead and diseased pigs” is under way as China celebrates the New Year this week.
Eating more protein at breakfast and at each meal could help in achieving healthy weight loss, according to a new report released in Australia.
Regularly consuming food and drink (be they sweet or savoury) that are less energy-dense could help to lower overall energy intake and postprandial blood glucose concentration, say researchers in Singapore.
Public health strategies for increasing vitamin D intake among young people are urgently needed in Hong Kong, claim researchers, after a new study found widespread deficiency and an association with cardiometabolic disease risk factors.
Nestlé Malaysia has responded to a viral online video, which claims its Milo drink contains 40% sugar, by stating: ‘The facts in this video are clearly misleading’.
AB InBev-owned craft brewer Pirate Life is to spend $15m on a new brewery in South Australia, which will quadruple its production capacity.
Whether you are an MNC giant or a fledgling start-up, price, packaging and provenance are keys to success in the Middle East.
The UAE’s LuLu Group is investing US$400m in a food processing plant, a logistics and processing unit for fruit and vegetable produce, and a mega shopping mall in India’s state of Telangana.
Gulf Printing and Packaging has opened a new AED$100m site in Abu Dhabi’s Food & Packaging cluster in the KIZAD free-zone.