Ingredients

Forget Big Brother - Google Earth is watching a fishery near you

29 November, 2013

Are fish catches being accurately reported? Possibly not, according to satellite imagery from Google Earth.


Fi Europe Excellence Awards winners announced

27 November, 2013

Roquette has won Most Innovative Food Ingredient at the 2013 Fi Europe Excellence Awards for its Microalgae High Lipid Algal Flour.


Celebrity chef backs South Coast commercial aquaculture plans

19 November, 2013

Celebrity chef Rick Stein and Dr Pia Winberg, a sustainable seafood expert from the University of Wollongong, have lent their support to a plan from Fisheries NSW to introduce three Commercial Shellfish Aquaculture Leases in the town of Jervis Bay.


Consumers ditch aspartame in favour of 'natural' sweeteners

19 November, 2013

Consumers' taste for aspartame has soured, new data from Canadean shows. Overall, sweetener consumption is changing across the globe, with increasing positive sentiment towards all-natural sweetness and clean label products.


Coles is harvesting simultaneously grown herbs and barramundi

19 November, 2013

Urban Ecological Systems Australia is growing herbs and barramundi simultaneously - with zero effluent - in Western Sydney. And Coles (and a $1.9m Early Stage Commercialisation grant) has helped to make the low-energy, sustainable, organic food production system a commercial reality.


Native American berry could be next 'super fruit'

15 November, 2013

The Native American buffaloberry could become the next 'super fruit', after researchers found that the underutilised berry contains high levels of antioxidants and nutrients.


Coca-Cola takes action on land grabs

11 November, 2013

Following pressure from an Oxfam campaign, Coca-Cola has announced it will take steps to stamp out the practice of land grabs among its suppliers.


DSM Delvo Cheese CC-300 and CC-200 cultures for cottage cheese

11 November, 2013 | Supplied by: DSM Food Specialties

DSM has launched two cheese culture ranges for cottage cheese applications. Delvo Cheese CC-300 and Delvo Cheese CC-200 have been developed for medium- and large-scale cheese producers.


Better hygiene can help stop Salmonella hitching a ride from 'farm to fork'

08 November, 2013

Australia's outbreaks of Salmonella poisoning can be reduced through the careful and hygienic handling of eggs through the supply chain, as well as in the kitchen, according to University of Adelaide research.


The wild ducks did it

18 October, 2013

The price of free-range eggs just got a lot dearer as avian flu results in the culling of 400,000 chooks and 3 million eggs.


Ashland Specialty Ingredients Polyclar stabilisers

16 October, 2013 | Supplied by: ISP Australasia Pty Ltd

Ashland Specialty Ingredients' Polyclar stabilisers are used to prevent the development of colloidal haze - permanently insoluble particulate which can be seen by the human eye and be perceived as haze - thus extending the shelf life of beer.


Woolworths to phase-out caged eggs

08 October, 2013

Woolworths has announced plans to phase-out caged eggs sold in-store by 2018. The company will also phase-out caged eggs used in its own-brand products.


Extending the shelf life of food products containing fruit

03 October, 2013 by Grant Taylor, Sales Manager - Asia Pacific, Taura Natural Ingredients | Supplied by: Taura Natural Ingredients Ltd

Products featuring real fruit appeal strongly to today’s health-conscious consumers, but significant technical obstacles have previously limited the use of fruit-based ingredients in many products with a long shelf life.


Sugar fuels land grabs, Oxfam claims

02 October, 2013

Oxfam has taken aim at some of the biggest names in the food and beverage industry - including Coca-Cola and PepsiCo - for their lack of action on land grabs and conflicts throughout their supply chains.


Chips and tomato sauce from the same plant

01 October, 2013

UK horticultural firm Thompson & Morgan has developed the TomTato - a plant that produces both tomatoes and potatoes.


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