Food and beverage


  • Heura expands into healthier, nutrient-dense alternatives

    Heura Foods is seeking to transform the food industry by enhancing popular food categories with exceptional nutritional benefits and remarkable flavour. Heura says its pending-patent technology can replace additives, modified starches, and saturated fats with plant proteins and healthy lipids, using simple thermo-mechanical techniques to structure product textures in food categories where it has been…


  • Aimia Foods introduces a new professional brand to distinguish and categorise services

    Aimia Foods has rebranded its foodservice and vending division to Aimia Foods for Professionals. Aimia foods decided to create this variation of the company name so that customers could clearly identify Aimia Foods for Professionals as manufacturer and distributor of foodservice products, with key brands such as Horlicks, Drink me Chai, Galaxy, and Caffe Prima,…


  • Pukka launches bigger versions of its two bestselling individual pies

    Pukka is launching bigger versions of its two bestselling chilled pies – All Steak and Chicken & Mushroom – in response to the growing popularity of larger pie formats. Both products incorporate the same, popular full-on flavour recipes, topped with 144 layers of Pukka’s golden flaky puff pastry, but in a bigger format. And Pukka…


  • FSAI confirms that monk fruit decoctions are not novel

    The Monk Fruit Corp is celebrating a regulatory breakthrough as the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) confirmed that monk fruit decoctions, a naturally sweet low-calorie food, are not novel. The ruling green-lights the opportunity for monk fruit decoctions to be utilised as a naturally sweet, low-calorie ingredient in food and beverage products sold in…


  • Südpack adopts fact-based life cycle assessments for flexible packaging

    Südpack has adopted its EcoTrace LCA service to evaluate the environmental impact of its products throughout the value chain. By means of various scenarios and projections, EcoTrace makes it possible to compare different packaging concepts, make objective decisions regarding optimal packaging solutions, achieve ambitious environmental and sustainability goals, and expand and optimise product reporting based…


  • Austria Juice aims to source 100% of its products from sustainable suppliers by 2030

    Austria Juice has set the goal of purchasing 100 % of its products from sustainable sources by 2030. As a member of the Sustainable Juice Covenant (IDH), Austria Juice is part of a consortium of several large companies in the beverage industry working towards producing all their goods in a verifiably sustainable manner by 2030.…


  • Ready-to-serve premium cocktails harnessing bold garden flavours hits the market

    Gardenista, a premium ready-to-serve cocktail made with vodka, tequila, or bourbon and blends garden flavours of herbs, fresh lime juice, ginger and a kick of jalapeño,has  announced its official launch. Gardenista is an ingredient-focused cocktail inspired by the mountains, which draws from the popular Gardener cocktail, originally featured at Matsuhisa in Aspen, Colorado. Available in…


  • EcoLamHighPlus leads the way in sustainable coffee packaging with Syntegon’s PMX platform

    Constantia Flexibles, a leading producer of flexible packaging, is demonstrating the machine performance of its EcoLamHighPlus mono-material on Syntegon’s advanced PMX platform for coffee packaging. Designed for recycling in the PE stream, EcoLamHighPlus is developed to meet the growing demand for more sustainable packaging materials while ensuring that packaging processes remain efficient and adaptable to…


  • Mane Kancor honoured with two awards at Fi India 2024

    Fi India Awards 2024.Image: Mane Kancor Posted: 9 October 2024 Share this page At the Fi India 2024 exhibition held at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre on September 25th, 2024, Mane Kancor was awarded two prestigious accolades. The company received the ‘Excellence in Research and Development’ award in the Food Innovation category, outshining 16 other…


  • BFFF’s ‘Frozen Food Revolution’ campaign to combat UK’s rising food waste

    The BFFF has launched the second year of its Frozen Food Revolution campaign, which aims to address food waste by highlighting how buying frozen foods can help reduce the amount of food people discard. According to the latest figures on food waste, UK households are binning, on average, the equivalent of eight meals a week…