Food Industry News

California Natural Color is thrilled to announce the newest addition to their portfolio of crystal colors - Pure Yellow Safflower, debuting at the Fi Europe tradeshow in Frankfurt, Germany.

• food ingredients
• Food Additives
• Fi Europe tradeshow
• Color Portfolio

Four start-ups have been named the winners of this year’s open innovation competition, while two of last year’s winners unlocked additional funding to scale up and market their products.

• CMAB
• Cheese
• yogurt
• Dessert
• 5th Real California Milk Excelerator

Italy’s government has announced the passing of a bill banning the production and marketing of cultivated meat. The measures, which also restrict labelling for plant-based products, aim to protect Italy’s traditional food culture.

• plant-based additives
• cultivated meat
• plant-based meat
• Italy Food Market

The better-for-you snacks sector in Asia Pacific will need to step up its focus onproduct functionality and freshness if it is to build on the boom it has enjoyed inrecent years.

• Asia Pacific
• healthier diets

Opened in 1914, the Aintree factory was Jacob’s first English factory and remains the primary producer of Jacob’s products in the UK, including Cream Crackers and Twiglets.

• pladis
• Gmb union
• Jacob's
• UK Food Market

Peering, scratching, sniffing, tasting, debating - that was our job for the day and whatthe entries in the World Championship Scotch Pie Awards had to undergo during thejudging process held in Dunfermline, Scotland, last week.

• Reformulation For Health
• food ingredients
• Food Additives

Cargill-owned Aalst Chocolate is putting "substantial investment" into insights-drivenR&D, customised products, and strengthening of its bean-to-bar supply chain to pushgrowth in Asia and beyond.

• sweetener
• Food Additives

The Uk's soft drinks levy is responsible for a 5,500 fall in hospital admissions for toothdecay, according to research published by the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health.

• Health And Nutritional Ingredients
• Chocolate And Confectionery Ingredients

Functional ingredient startup WellVine has designed a zero-wastesupplement for gut health utilising upcycled wine grape byproduct.

• Chardonnay
• Oligosaccharides
• polyphenols
• flavanols

Global food and drink manufacturer PepsiCo has been sued by New York statebecause of plastic pollution in the Buffalo River.

• PepsiCo

Singapore-based start-up Noce Nuts says that consumers are willing topay a premium for nut butters that are customised to their preferred tasteand texture, including reduced sugar and salt options.

The previous provision that allowed invoice to be used as the evidence to prove the goods contain less than 10% dairy (by dry weight) has been removed.

• Australia
• aquatic products
• Dairy

South Korean multinational food and beverage firm Nongshim, which has a range of plant-based products, is to invest €6.9m ($7.4m) in food tech such as vertical farms and cultivated meat.

• plant-based additives
• food tech

The U.S. is able to supply high quality, great tasting peanuts in a wide range of forms, from inshells or whole kernels, though to granulated peanuts, peanut butters, flours, oils and extracts.

• peanut ingredients
• plant based trend

MartinoRossi leads in plant-based ingredients, offering innovative solutions. From roasted pulses flours to plant-based and allergen-free mixes, they meet the most innovative market trends.

• New Food Ingredients
• Plant-based Active Ingredients

After two consecutive years of deficit in conjunction with the expectation of anothernegative for the current season, cocoa futures in London and New York havecontinued to be bullish as demand for chocolate remains high.

• Chocolate
• Cocoa Bean

Middle Eastern food and beverage heavyweight Agthia has pledged to focus moreinvestment into the diqitalisation of its business as well as the creation of newsnacking innovations in order to sustain the positive growth and profitability.

• Agthia
• Digitalisation
• Snacking

The Maqnum, Wall's, and Ben & Jerry's owner is reformulating its ice creams towithstand warmer temperatures, and wants others to do the same.

• Dairy-Based Ingredients
• Proteins
• Innovation And NPD
• Sweeteners

An agreement with SaaS company Sustained has made it possible for animal protein-level environmental footprint data to be translated into product-level lifecycleassessments for consumer food products, such as milk, eggs, fish, and meat.

• Food Production
• animal protein

Nestle ndia has launched a variety of new products focused on millets as a kevingredient this year, in an effort to increase consumer acceptance and awareness viafamiliar product formats while also aligning with the lndian government's lnternationaYear.

• Nestlé
• millet-based product