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ROUND-UP: Packaging
Here is your weekly round-up of packaging news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com.
Yogurt packaging
Danish food company Løgismose has launched a low-fat organic skyr packed in RPC Superfos’ EasySnacking packaging solution.
Luscious new multipack range
Rachel’s is giving its existing multipack range a makeover – redeveloping the recipes to be creamier and more indulgent – along with refreshing the pack design and adding two new varieties. The two new Luscious Fruits multipack varieties are: rhubarb (two pots) and raspberry (two pots); and apricot & vanilla (two pots) and blueberry & […]
Snack attack
Last week I attended Health Ingredients Europe in Amsterdam along with around 8,000 others from the health and natural ingredients industries. We were there to see what solutions the 500 or so health and wellness suppliers had to offer food and beverage applications, and to ‘trend spot’ for 2015. With the subject of last week’s […]
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 […]
Low-fat cocoa powder
Cocoa and chocolate expert ADM Cocoa has announced the launch of a new deZaan reduced-fat cocoa powder with only 0.5% fat. D-00-ZR retains the chocolate taste of deZaan ZR cocoa powders, but with virtually no fat content. Available worldwide from this summer, D-00-ZR enables users to formulate lower calorie products with lower saturated fat contents, […]
EU increases authorised levels of antioxidant rosemary extracts
Naturex, along with the competent authorities, have achieved an amendment to restrictions on antioxidant rosemary extracts in processed meat and fish products with less than 10% fat. Antioxidant rosemary extracts have a long tradition of use in processed fish and meat products due to their ability to extend both flavour and colour stability. Following approval […]
Investment in ‘free from’ crucial for in-store bakeries
The UK bakery market – worth £11bn in 2012 – shows no sign of slowing its growth, despite challenges from wet weather and an increase in grain prices due to continental droughts. At the same time, the ‘free from’ sector is marching on, grabbing a £238m slice of the market last year thanks to increasing […]
Simple labelling prompts food switch
Labelling food products with clear, simple nutritional information produced ‘quite extraordinary’ changes in consumers’ buying habits in just eight weeks, according to a report on a major European conference. Speaking at the Annual Obesity Europe Conference in Brussels recently, Tesco’s European affairs manager Ian Hutchins claimed that consumers switched in a matter of weeks to […]