McCormick & Company Inc. has created the new position of chief science officer on its leadership team, emphasizing “the company's business commitment to, and relentless focus on, flavor innovation and inspiring healthy choices.”
Heathrow Natural Food & Beverage Inc. announced that its board of directors approved a spin-off of all current food and beverage related operations into Heathrow Enterprises LLC, a private entity.
Only one in five Chinese consumers trust the quality of bottled beverages, and others cite illegal additives as their major concern, according to the results of a survey.
Little black or white exists, in regards to much nutritional information (to the frustration of consumers). Instead, there is a continuum of plausibility on nutritional information, ranging from “very unlikely to be true” to “pretty darn sure this is the way it is.”
The Food and Drug Administration and a leading doctor are disputing suggestions by television show host Dr. Mehmet Oz that trace amounts of arsenic in many apple juice products pose a health concern.
Researchers have developed 14 non-dairy-based calcium-rich products and 12 dairy-based calcium-rich products using methods like malting and fermentation "as food-based interventions" to raise calcium intake in children.