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New healthy Gruffalo ready meal
Healthy world food brand Mini nom nom’s exhibited at September’s Lunch! show in London.
Innovate UK
Innovate UK launches a competition to fund up to £10 million in collaborative R&D projects aimed at reducing sugar, salt and fat and increasing dietary fibre in food and drink. It hopes to stimulate the availability of healthier food and drink choices for consumers and open up new market opportunities for the British food industry. […]
Cottage cheese solution
In an attempt to tackle the problem of watery cottage cheese, Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a new clean label protein solution, which is simply added to the dressing (cream) that is combined with the curds to make cottage cheese.
Changing face of children’s foods
Global report reveals new opportunities available as a result of the reductions in sugar, salt and fat levels in the market.
Popcorn booming in snacks market
Snack Foods, a new market update from market intelligence provider Key Note, reports that the UK snack foods market grew by 29.7% between 2010 and 2014.
Consumer attitudes survey results published
The FSA has published the latest results of its Biannual Public Attitudes Tracker survey.
Food safety, Ingredients, Packaging, Regulatory, Sustainability
Multigrain cereal introduced
Honey Monster Puffs is launching a new multigrain cereal variety, Honey Monster Multigrain Honeycomb.
New Ritz snacks
Savoury biscuit brand Ritz is launching Ritz Crisp & Thin, aimed at the growing demand for savoury snacks in the UK.
Food for thought
Women spend two and a half hours a day talking or thinking about food, according to a recent survey commissioned by Nature Valley. Men spend slightly less time doing so, dedicating around two hours a day to food thoughts. As a woman working in the food and drink industry, it’s fair to say that I […]
Turkish delight
A new addition to its growing list of ready meals ingredients has been unveiled by Snowbird foods. Its Lamb Koftes are irregularly shaped pieces, which are fully cooked and frozen as part of the production process so they can easily be incorporated within prepared ready meals. They contain in excess of 90% lamb and the […]
Sugar reduction
Food & Drink Technology spoke to Mary Mitchell, application scientist at PureCircle, to find out more about the challenges faced by the dairy industry today when reducing sugar in yogurt.
Business news, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging
New brand strategy for Coca-Cola portfolio
Coca-Cola Great Britain (CCGB) has announced that it will be unifying the Coca-Cola portfolio of products – including Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero and Coca-Cola Life – under a new one-brand strategy to promote the full choice of Coca-Cola variants. Over the years, as consumer taste, preference and lifestyles have changed, Coca-Cola has launched and […]
Nut butters
Pip & Nut is shaking up the nut butter category with the launch of three new products: Peanut Butter, Almond Butter and Coconut Almond Butter. High protein with vitamin E and magnesium, the natural butters are made from just-roasted nuts and a sprinkling of sea salt, with no refined sugar, additives or palm oil. Pip […]
Research into consumers’ daily nutrient purchases
Market research company Euromonitor International has examined the amount of nutrients purchased per person per day through packaged food and soft drinks products. The data tracks energy, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, sugar, salt, protein and fibre in 54 countries globally. According to the research, the world buys 1.5 trillion calories a day, with the average […]