Evaluating the Yuka ‘phenomenon’: How effective is the scanning …
WEBAug 20, 2019 · The study revealed that Yuka was particularly effective when advising against particular products due to the presence of potentially harmful additives. When Yuka advises against a product due to high levels of fat, salt or sugar, however, the app appeared to have influence. In this instance, some consumers still decided to purchase the product ...
What do consumers think about food additives? Survey
WEBSep 22, 2021 · The BfR also asked which health risks consumers believe food additives pose. Naming up to three risks each, 27% of consumers noted intolerances, 26% responded cancer, 23% obesity, 17% diabetes, and 10% cardiovascular diseases. Concerning specific additives, 33% of consumers said they were very concerned about monosodium glutamate (E 621), 24% ...
What’s next in alternative protein? 7 trends on the up in 2022
WEBJan 27, 2022 · A good number of alternative protein operations raised rounds in excess of $100m in 2021, and many in excess of $200m. These include Impossible Foods, Eat Just, Aleph Farms, Perfect Day, The EVERY Company, and NotCo. GFI also expects more alternative proteins businesses to float on the stock exchange in 2022, following recent IPOs from Oatly ...
Kemin’s algae-sourced beta glucan BetaVia gets novel foods nod: …
WEBMay 27, 2020 · US-based Kemin Industries has received a positive safety assessment from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for its algae-sourced beta glucan ingredient, BetaVia. This unlocks the opportunity for ‘innovative product developers to be the first to communicate around the source’ and tap into surging interest in immunity, the group’s European marketing manager, Miguel Martinho, tells ...
How fermentation biotech is creating ‘Agricultural 2.0’
WEBMar 25, 2021 · News and analysis on food and beverage development and technology. A rainbow of opportunity: How fermentation biotech is creating ‘Agricultural 2.0’. Fermentation is reinventing how food ingredients are produced / Pic: GettyImages-StephM2506. Biotechnology applications garner increasing attention in …
‘World’s biggest’ piece of cell-based whole cut analogue …
WEBJan 25, 2021 · Image source: Novameat. Now, Novameat is celebrating a new feat: the development of the ‘world’s biggest’ piece of cell-based whole cut analogue. “Our biggest cell-based meat prototypes – or you can call them hybrid meat analogues, as we mix mammalian adipose cells with a biocompatible plant-based scaffold – score at 22500mm.
Food futurology: What will we be eating 10 years from now?
WEBDec 22, 2020 · Retail predictions 2021: Experts talk bricks-and-mortar and the ‘jet propulsion’ of e-commerce. Within the next decade, trend forecaster Dr Morgaine Gaye predicts we will have moved beyond the current protein craze, be eating food made from ‘the biggest ingredient of the future’, and variety will play a greater role in all things fruit ...
Tony’s Chocolonely axed from Slave Free Chocolate list, defends …
WEBFeb 16, 2021 · Tony’s Chocolonely tells FoodNavigator it deliberately works with Barry Callebaut to show full traceability is possible at scale. The Slave Free Chocolate list aims to raise awareness about child labour in West African cocoa farms. An estimated 1.56 million children work in cocoa production in West African nations Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire ...
The rising price of olive oil: What’s causing it and how long will it …
WEBApr 30, 2024 · The price of olive oil has seen an extraordinary increase in recent years, with figures from market analyst firm Mintec Global showing a record high of €9.20 per kilogram, reached in January 2024. But why are we seeing this sharp increase and is this trend sustainable when many consumers are already stretched by the cost-of-living crisis.
Allulose approval in Europe to be sought by new ingredients …
WEBDec 7, 2021 · The newly formed Allulose Novel Food Consortium (ANFC) is made up of four ingredients companies: Sanyang Corporation from South Korea, Japan-based Matsutani Chemical Industry, European sugar beet-focused Cosun Beet Company, and US-headquartered Ingredion. Their aim is to put allulose – a ‘novel food’ already approved in Japan, Mexico ...