Premier Beverage Group founder and president Fouad Kallamni cited a Morgan Stanley industry report on strong, sustained growth in the energy drink market as reason for optimism in 2012.
Who is responsible for the problem? The solution? What role do food ingredients and food formulations play? Prepared Foods’ annual survey queries food product developers.
Researchers examined the effect of providing clear and visible caloric information about sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda, sport drinks, energy drinks and fruit juice at neighborhood stores.
The Food and Drug Administration is considering tightening restrictions for the levels of arsenic allowed in apple juice after consumer groups pushed the agency to crack down on the contaminant.
West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw wants federal regulators to take a tougher stance against the marketers of the Four Loko brand of alcoholic beverages.
There is no free lunch, they say. But for now, at least, a glass of water is free when people go out to eat, and, increasingly, water is all they are drinking.
The healthy beverage market in the Middle East just got more competitive, with the official launch in the region of SJORA, a fusion beverage from Nestlé made from a blend of skimmed milk and natural fruit juices.