Food and beverage

Pork Farms is expanding its range with two new recipes which include a BBQ Medium Pork Pie and 4-pack Ploughman’s Mini Pork Pies with Cheese & Pickle. The launches follow an explosive year of growth for Pork Farms with sales figures reaching £15.6m and the brand outperforming the wider pork pie market by almost tenfold.…

Bunge and CP Foods are jointly testing a traceability platform using blockchain technology for sustainable soy. To date, three shipments totalling 185,000 metric tonnes of deforestation-free soybean meal have been loaded in Brazil and are headed to Thailand, allowing CP Foods to trace the soybeans from farm origin, processing, transportation, to delivery at destination. Three…

PureCircle will now be able to offer ingredients from bioconversion in the United Kingdom – including Reb D and Reb M – in addition to its broad portfolio of existing stevia sweeteners and natural flavour modifiers, following the UK government publishing a new specification authorising PureCircle by Ingredion’s range of steviol glycosides produced via bioconversion…

A quarter pounder made with the help of AI on a Yorkshire industrial estate has officially been crowned ‘Britain’s greenest burger’. Made with vertically farmed oyster mushrooms, the Hooba burger is developed using one of the most unique and eco-friendly production processes in the food industry. Having recently launched across the UK, the burger has…

Pasta Nostra is aiming to stir up the instant snack pots category with the launch of six healthy pasta pots, made in Italy. Pasta Nostra’s authentic Italian fusilli pasta is made from natural ingredients, using a high-quality preparation process to create a premium product with a distinctive flavour profile to stimulate interest in a category, which…

Olam food ingredients has earned America’s first Rainforest Alliance certification for its California orchards. As one of the world’s largest almond growers with orchards in California and Australia, Olam food ingredients’ (ofi’s) says its certification is good news for makers and consumers of almond-based food and drink products, from cereal bars and trail mixes to…

The Kennet Crayfish Company has created the largest processing facility for crayfish in Britain. The site is eco-friendly, humane and uses pure, chalk-stream water to handle wild crayfish from the River Kennet. Crayfish are smaller, freshwater cousins of lobsters and thought by many to have a superior flavour, much prized by top chefs and foodies…

CSM new fats for lamination. Posted: 11 June 2024 Share this page Recognising the shift towards healthier eating habits, CSM Ingredients has rolled out several solutions aimed at reducing fats and additives in laminated bakery treats. SlimBake is an emulsion that enables up to a 30% reduction in the fat content of finished bakery products.…

Umami, Spicy, Tropical, Treating and Bloom Harvest are five flavour trends generated by Diageo’s ‘Flavour Forecast’, which has been created in collaboration with Ai Palette. According to the AI and machine learning tool that identifies emerging trends across food and beverage by tracking global conversations across online and social media platforms, Diageo’s ‘Flavour Forecast’ predicts…

Tetra Pak’s Industrial Protein Mixer is designed to help food and beverage manufacturers produce high-quality protein beverages quickly and efficiently. Not only does the protein mixer make production more streamlined, but it also helps companies meet growing consumer demands for protein-rich products. Traditional methods of mixing in liquid food production often encounter problems with air…