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.
FORMULA FOODS A WINNING RECIPE
At the forefront of traditional Kiwi favourite flavours and colours, Formula Foods Corporation has more than 29 years of servicing the food industry…and that’s why the company understands its clients’ needs. Continue →
Dried Fruit and Nuts A Winning Combo
Combining dried fruits and nuts in food is an international trend that not all New Zealand food manufacturers have capitalised on. Continue →
Doing it for the kids
More than 80% of parents want their offspring to eat natural food and drinks in a balanced diet, but the same can’t be said for households without children, according to a global consumer study. Continue →
ANCIENT WATER AN ICE AGE GIFT
An ancient ingredient credited with providing a marked point of differentiation for products manufactured at McCashin’s Brewery is the latest extension to the family range of drinks. Continue →
Waikato Sugar alternative key in new product innovation
A Kiwi-Chinese joint venture developing a low-calorie sugar alternative made entirely from fruit will now see its ingredient added to an innovative new beverage. Continue →
New Codex standard set to ignite permeate boom
The market for dairy permeate powder will “explode into life” – especially in Asia – once a global Codex standard is set, which could be as early as next year. Continue →
Yoghurt and dairy beverages lead protein NPD boom
Protein content has been one of the key areas of activity in new product development in the food and drinks industry over the past couple of years. Continue →
New dairy protein solves watery low-fat cottage cheese problem
Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a unique new clean-label protein solution that tackles the long-standing problem of watery low-fat cottage cheese. Continue →
New half-fat soft cheese solution
Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a whey protein solution that enables dairies to produce low-fat soft ripened cheeses that taste as good as the full-fat versions. Continue →
Stevia still at the starting gate in sugar-free confectionery
With ongoing concerns about health and the reduction of sugar in the diet, the sugar-free confectionery market should be booming, 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. Continue →
Manuka Health launches bioactive supplement
Manuka Health, one of New Zealand’s most successful and fastest growing honey brands unveiled MGO™ Manuka Honey with CycloPower™, an advanced natural bioactive supplement, at Expo West in California, the world’s largest trade show for the natural, organic and health products industry, early this month. Continue →
New generation nutritional products
The development of a stable delivery system for key health enhancing properties could soon be applied to general foodstuffs thanks to the efforts of a team of scientists from the Riddet Institute. Continue →
Dairy drives global health innovation
“Dairy, more than any other category, is perfectly positioned to profit from the most important consumer trends shaping the food industry,” says Julian Mellentin, director of New Nutrition Business, whose new report “Key Trends in the Business of Dairy Nutrition” outlines the 14 trends driving the category. Continue →
The Asia Pacific food ingredients market: you are what you eat
The global economy today is witnessing increased focus on feeding its population. Continue →
High value fungi may offer new industry for NZ
Scientists could open up new opportunities New Zealand exports following recent research into the cultivation and commercialisation of two edible fungi crops – saffron milk cap (Lactarius deliciosus) and Bianchetto truffle (Tuber borchii). Continue →
Has one of triathletes’ great villains met its match with a kiwi sports supplement?
The UK’s prestigious Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Chichester University has just completed a major peer-reviewed clinical trial on triathletes during cycling, using a sports supplement formulation developed by New Zealand-based company Sujon Berryfruits of Nelson. Continue →
Futuristic meat-based products for the ageing population
By Dr Mustafa M Farouk, AgResearch Ltd, Food Assurance & Meat Quality, Food & Bio-based Products, Hamilton
People are living longer. Continue →
Flour producer receives grant to develop nutrition products
Farmers Mill is the first independent grower-owned and operated flour producer in the country to receive funding from the Agricultural and Marketing Research and Development Trust (AGMARDT), for the specific development of nutrition focussed flour and baking products. Continue →
Whey concentrate goes mainstream
Arla Foods Ingredients has launched its advanced whey protein Lacprodan® DI-7017 into the lifestyle nutrition market for the first time. Continue →
New Zealand Avocados go global
The Avocado Industry Council announced last month that it will partner with the Ministry for Primary Industries in a new Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) programme called Go Global— a five year programme to increase the productivity and capability within the avocado industry to deliver significant additional returns for New Zealand. Continue →