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Feeling festive

The decorations are up, I have baked my first batch of mince pies and I spent the weekend wrapping presents – I am thoroughly in the mood for Christmas.

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A meaty debate

Consumption of red/processed meat has long been associated with cancer, with numerous studies concluding that eating such meats has a ‘probable’, ‘feasible’, ‘plausible’ or ‘likely’ increase in the risk of developing colorectal cancer, for instance.

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2015 beverage outlook optimistic

According to Canadean’s latest Quarterly Beverage Tracker, the final quarter of 2014 brought some welcome news to the west European beverage industry, with full-year consumption only declining by a marginal 0.3% due to mild winter weather. Beer saw the first uplift for some years with an increase of nearly 1%, while the rate of decline for soft drinks […]

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Taking the biscuit

As a serious biscuit fan I was interested to read the findings of a recent survey which looked at the UK’s biscuit consumption preferences and habits. Commissioned by packaging machinery supplier KernPack, there was a theme running through the top three biscuits of choice: chocolate. The Chocolate Hobnob was revealed as the nation’s favourite biscuit, with […]

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