dairy
More than 400 colour shades from Exberry
It is no longer just price, taste and appearance that counts when consumers buy food and drink products. Most of them take a critical look at ingredient lists, and try to avoid additives and synthetic food colours. According to this ongoing consumer trend, food and beverage manufacturers are looking for a suitable alternative to additive […]
Sensient launches alternative to caramel colours
Sensient Food Colors Europe has launched a line of colours that provide a natural alternative to traditional caramel colours. The range of natural brown shades for food and beverage applications includes plant-based products that are available as colouring foodstuffs, complying with the new EU guidance notes on colouring food. The line includes apple-based products, offering […]
Greek yogurt process promises an end to 1 million tons of acid whey
Greek yogurt manufacturers could cut their acid whey output by a collective 1 million tons a year simply by converting it into value-added dairy products, according to Arla Foods Ingredients. Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a processing solution – based on a Nutrilac protein derived from milk – that enables producers of Greek yogurt to use their acid […]
World’s largest dairy spray dryer completes its first season
The world’s largest dairy spray dryer has successfully completed its first season. Fonterra’s 30 tonne/hour milk powder plant at Darfield, New Zealand, has been in full operation since being started up in August 2013. The dryer, Darfield D2, is the second of two at Fonterra’s Darfield milk processing site in New Zealand, and it has […]
Schur Flexibles to take over Danapak Flexibles
Austrian company Schur Flexibles Group is set to take over Arla Food’s subsidiary packaging company, Danapak Flexibles. Subject to approval by the relevant competition authorities the move is expected to take effect by July 1st. Danapak Flexibles supplies packaging for companies in the pharma, dairy, and food industries, Arla took over the full ownership of […]
Softer stance on health claims
According to Innova Market Research, interest in healthy options appears to be continuing unabated. This is despite cutbacks in consumer expenditure and problems in some countries with regard to health claims legislation. Nearly 40% of the global launches recorded by Innova Market Insights in 2013 were positioned on a health platform of some kind, mainly […]
May 2014
Product Focus: Organic and Fair Trade Ingredients: Sweeteners, Allergens Packaging: Liquid filling Processing: Mixing and blending, Dairy processing
Nampak wins silver DuPont award for Packaging Innovation
Nampak Plastics has been awarded the silver DuPont award for Packaging Innovation for its Infini bottle. The DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, now in its 26th year, is an international, independently-judged competition that honours innovations in packaging design, materials, technology, processes, and service across the entire packaging value chain. Nampak introduced Infini to the British […]
SaltLife scientist wins prestigious award
Kirsten Kastberg Moeller, development scientist at Chr Hansen, has won the Dutch Pieter Walstra Award which acknowledges her ‘outstanding scientific publication related to dairy science’. Moeller was handed the award for her PhD thesis on ‘Salt reduction in Cheddar cheese: Exploring the potential of lactic acid bacteria and coagulants in restoring flavour and texture.’ The […]
Rebel Kitchen expands range of dairy-free coconut ‘mylk’ drinks
Rebel Kitchen is expanding its range of dairy-free coconut ‘mylk’ drinks. ‘Mylk’ for kids was launched earlier this year, and this new range has since been developed for an older demographic. The range features three flavours including Chocolate, Matcha Green Tea and Chai and is available in 330ml cartons retailing at £1.89 each. The new […]
New low-fat baking ingredient from Trimbake
A new baking replacement ingredient called Trimbake, which reduces baked recipes by up to 75% of the original fat content and 50% of the usual sugar content, is being launched in the UK. Trimbake is made up of a blend of apples, prunes, water, squash, carrots and lentils. Each packet of Trimbake can be used […]
Fighting against food fraud
Eric Jamin from Eurofins Analytics looks as the testing tools available to the food industry for verifying the origin and validity of a product or component as well as emerging methods in this sector.
Business news, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Regulatory, Sustainability
Germany’s feel for yogurt
Yogurt consumption in Germany is growing almost twice as fast as other dairy products; a trend that is set to continue. According to a new report from Canadean, the taste and texture of yogurt is more important than price and calorie count. Yogurt is set to grow fast in the otherwise fairly slow growing and […]
Alternative to sleeves for cup packaging
Greiner Packaging International has developed an alternative to sleeves for special shaped cup packaging in the form of K3 D. K3 stands for Karton-Kunstoff-Kombinationen (cardboard-plastic combinations) and the D stands for the deformability of the cardboard wrap. The new technology makes it possible to deform a cardboard wrap in the third dimension to decorate a […]