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Round Up: Ingredients

Here is your weekly round-up of ingredients news. Next week’s round-up will focus on packaging news.

Food safety, Ingredients, Regulatory

Beneo showcases sugar replacer with new sweets collection

Functional ingredients manufacturer Beneo has released an assortment of sugar-free, hard candy products containing Isomalt: a sugar replacer derived from sugar beet.

Food safety, Ingredients, Regulatory

Round-Up: Shelf Life

Here is your weekly round-up of Shelf Life news. Next week’s round-up will focus on ingredients news.

Food safety, Ingredients

Bon Bon Buddies expands sour confectionery range

Bon Bon Buddies is expanding its own brand Brain Blasterz confectionery range, adding four new sour products.

First fully automated lollipop coating line

GEA, which supplies process technology for the food industry, has developed what it claims is the world’s first fully automated lollipop coating line.

Ingredients, Packaging, Sustainability

Stevia missing a trick in confectionery

With ongoing concerns about health and the reduction of sugar in the diet, the sugar-free confectionery market should be booming. This is particularly in the face of ongoing technical developments that have improved sensory properties and the appearance of new sweeteners and other ingredients with a more natural image. Yet sugar-free lines accounted for less […]

Food safety, Ingredients

GRAS status for AstaPure

Algatechnologies’ natural astaxanthin product AstaPure has obtained GRAS (Generally Recognised As Safe) status from the FDA for use in food and beverages applications. “Our AstaPure brand has been successfully applied for several years as an active ingredient in dietary supplements, foods and beverages in Japan,” says Efrat Kat, director of marketing and sales at Algatechnologies. […]

Food safety, Ingredients

Events

Wed

29

Jan

Dairy Industries Expo

The Dairy Industries Expo is set to take place in 29-30 October 2025 at the NAEC Stoneleigh.

Sun

2

Feb

ProSweets Cologne with ISM

With an even stronger segmentation of the themes and hall structure in 2025, ProSweets, together with ISM offers Lab5 by ISM which is focusing on new products, trend snacks, start-ups, scale-ups and small handicraft businesses.

Tue

4

Feb

Chocoa

An opportunity to meet and engage with the global cocoa and chocolate industry, create new business connections and strengthen existing ones.

Wed

5

Feb

Fruit Logistica 2025

The international fresh produce trade fair where key players descend on Berlin.

Tue

11

Feb

Biofach 2025

The trade fair will launch its 36th round with an improved hall concept, and incorporate highlight topics into its supporting programme for the out-of-home catering or retail segments.

Mon

17

Feb

Gulfood, Dubai

The one place where the world gathers annually to witness an unparalleled F&B showcase, with products meticulously handpicked from every corner of the globe.

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