News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Recent research has revealed that the consumption of ultra-processed foods is on the rise amongst Taiwanese adolescents, a trend that academics have associated with poor dietary quality.
Finnish Omega-3 Pork is set to be sold to Chinese consumers through supermarkets and online retail grocery chains.
There is just one week to go until the region's leading probiotics and microbiome summit, Probiota Asia, gets underway in Singapore, but there is still time to register and join a host of top brands at the event.
Changes to food safety and traceability rules in China, the prospect of severe fines for food firms in Vietnam, plus potential raw milk law changes in New Zealand feature in our monthly policy round-up.
The scale of impact of current initiatives to deal with plastic and packaging waste in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam have been found to be affect only 5% or less of waste, according to a comprehensive study by Food Industry Asia (FIA).
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Innovation, research and development are key factors if countries want to transform their ‘surplus’ commodities into value-adding products, said the Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR).
The growing demand for plant-based beverages and dairy products in South East Asia and China is Australia’s Freedom Foods’ key for growing the Asian market, according to its MD.
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With a quarter of urban Indonesians are avoiding, or intend to avoid, carbohydrates, analysts are predicting a bright future for the nation’s fledgling meal replacement snack bar sector.