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.
Total seasoning solutions
Global food packaging solutions specialist tna presents the latest innovation in its leading seasoning range – the new tna intelli-flav OMS 3c. Continue →
Export success for pet food manufacturers
A unique product and tireless work to get past food compliance issues have turned K9 Natural into a fast growing business. Continue →
Salt reduction gains momentum
By Les Watkins
Consumers barely seemed to notice when New Zealand’s two major bread producers removed 150 tonnes of salt from the nation’s food in just one year. Continue →
Cherries for better sleep
Preliminary research results released by Fruision Ltd show that sweet cherries grown in Central Otago are a natural source of melatonin at levels over 30 times higher than other cherry varieties grown in the northern hemisphere’s major cherry production regions. Continue →
The lion frolics with the lambs
Minister of Primary Industries David Carter says judging the ‘Glammies’ has to be one of the toughest tasks around. Continue →
New award for produce and floral markets
Nominations are being sought for the 2012 Marketer of Year Award. Continue →
Young chef dishes up Australasia’s best savoury
A young Christchurch chef served up the best savoury dish at the Fonterra Foodservices “Proud to be a Chef” Australasian final last month. Continue →
Sweet success in hunt for honey’s healing factors
Ground-breaking research has found different varieties of New Zealand honey appear to trigger diverse immune responses especially when it comes to the treatment of wounds. Continue →
Ethical concerns continue to gain currency despite recession
Despite financial constraints it appears that consumer interest in making ethical food choices is continuing to increase. Continue →
Vegetarian solutions for child obesity
The World Health Organisation says that in 2010 the number of overweight children under the age of five was estimated to be more than 42 million. Continue →
From the paddock to the plate
Silver Fern Farms says its tie up with celebrity cook Annabel Langbein brings a synergy between how she feels about food and how the company wants to represent its products. Continue →
New ingredients
Natural flavour development US based Ungerer & Company has been making ingredients like essential oils, oleoresins and aroma chemicals since 1893. Continue →
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 →