News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
New Zealand oat firm Harraways has revealed its plans to focus new product development efforts on areas such as fortification and collaborative NPD as the 154-year-old brand moves to keep up with current F&B trends.
Israel has claimed the top spot in the annual Global Food Security Index (GFSI) 2020, while last year’s top ranked nation Qatar has slipped to the fourth place, among the 15 countries analysed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Malaysian healthy snacks firm Signature Market has ambitious hopes to launch of four to six new healthy snacks a week as it pursues its mission to become the Trader Joe’s of South East Asia.
China has implemented mandatory traceability requirements for all food products transported via cold chain, including dairy products, fruits and drinks, in an expansion of its efforts to prevent COVID-19 from entering the country via imported foods.
Researchers are proposing to fortify food categories such as bread, biscuits, noodles, fat spreads, sauces and palm oil with plant sterols, as a measure to reduce risk factors associated with heart diseases among the Indonesian population.
More than half of children in the Philippines are deficient (10.3%) and insufficient (50.3%) in vitamin D, according to an analysis of serum vitamin D data collected from six to 12 year old children.