Growing demand from the emerging segment of nutraceuticals is driving the global consumption of Indian spices further at a time when the country is straining to meet the needs of the traditional food sector.
U.S. brewer Goose Island said it had agreed to be taken over by Belgian sector player Anheuser-Busch InBev, to ensure cash needed to expand its distribution in Chicago and the Midwest, as well as to boost production to match consumer demand.
A team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has found that levels of five amino acids not only indicated increased type II diabetes risk in a general population, but could also differentiate, among individuals with traditional risk factors such as obesity, those most likely to actually develop diabetes.
Hormel Foods Corporation named Scott Aakre vice president of corporate innovation and new product development, and Whitney Velasco-Aznar is joining the company and assuming Aakre’s previous position as vice president of marketing for Grocery Products.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responding to objections and is denying requests that it has received for a hearing on the final rule which amended the food additive regulations to provide for the use of a bacteriophage preparation as an antimicrobial agent against Listeria monocytogenes on ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products.
Saputo Inc. completed the transaction announced on February 17, 2011, and acquired Fairmount Cheese Holdings Inc., the parent company of DCI Cheese Company Inc. (DCI).
U.S.-based Dawn Foods will buy Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients from Dutch ingredients and foodstuffs group Royal Cosun, the vendor said without providing financial details.
After tackling the chemistry of coffee, tea, fruit juices, soda pop, beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages, experts have now tackled the chemistry of the Mount Everest of cocktails, the Bloody Mary.
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