Browsing: Ingredients
In a competitive market, the quality of food ingredients and food additives is key. Read the latest news on everything relating to the food ingredients industry: colouring, emulsifiers, preservatives and sweeteners, through to berries, nuts, herbs, spices, fruit and vegetables. Find out what’s happening in the world of food ingredients suppliers and manufacturers.
The 2012 Cuisine NZ Champions of Cheese Awards
The Cuisine NZ Champions of Cheese Awards is a celebration of local cheesemaking – honouring technical excellence in the manufacture of New Zealand cheese. Continue →
The bread of life is iodised salt
It’s been more than two years since new rules were introduced making it mandatory for bakers to switch ordinary salt for the iodised kind in all breads except organic and unleavened types. Continue →
Flower power makes a spirited comeback
Rising interest in naturalness and growing awareness of the potential health benefits of botanical ingredients have combined with the desire for something more unusual to develop the demand for floral ingredients and flavourings. Continue →
Daily dose of enriched milk can help deal with gout
A study supported by Fonterra and published last month in the British Medical Journal Annals of Rheumatic Diseases has shown that a daily dose of skimmed milk, enriched with two value added ingredients naturally found in dairy products, may reduce the frequency and intensity of gout flares. Continue →
A guide to the Supplemented Food Standard
By Carol Barnao
To help make the rules around supplemented food more easily understood, the MAF has issued an updated user guide for the New Zealand Supplemented Food Standard. Continue →
The price of eating healthily
University of Washington researchers have estimated that striving to eat healthier would add about 10 percent to the average American’s food bill of US$4000 per year. Continue →
Biggest ever avocado season begins
The 2011 avocado season has started for New Zealand’s largest avocado post-harvest operator, Apata Limited, with its first trays of class 1 Hass avocados now packed and ready for export to Australia. Continue →
If it moves, tax it
Fears that many fruit and vegetable growers would be knocked out of business by a proposed irrigation tax are being expressed by Horticulture NZ. Continue →
The spice of life
A Penn State study has found spices such as rosemary, oregano, cinnamon, turmeric, black pepper, cloves, garlic powder and paprika reduce the body’s negative response to digesting high-fat meals. Continue →
Why the big secret?
By chief executive Horticulture New Zealand, Peter Silcock.
New Zealand’s fruit and vegetable growers are thankful at least one political party has the good sense to put a call for mandatory country of origin labelling (MCoOL) on their political agenda for this election. Continue →
The rise and rise of New Zealand ingredients
New Zealand’s growing reputation as a gourmet destination is due to a lot more than a reputation for quality food and beverage. Continue →