News On Ingredients

Food Ingredients Europe 2011 in Paris is the global meeting point of the food and beverages industry. This year too K + S Kali GmbH will be attending as manufacturers. K+S KALI GmbH is presenting its highlights of the year, such as KaliSel – its brand...

Starch group AVEBE has completed the upgrade of a production line at its production site in Ter Apelkanaal in the Netherlands. The investment, involving a sum of 10 million euros, forms part of an ongoing investment programme. The company is also curr...

Innova Market Insights has identified ten key trends to impact the food and beverage market through 2012 and beyond. The top trends relate purity, authenticity and sustainability, as consumers continue to look for products with added value, despite the...

The debate over whether food companies should be outed for failing to reduce sodium in their products is on the table at a two-day meeting of provincial and territorial health ministers that starts Thursday November 24 in Halifax. As Health Minister L...

At KMC’s annual general meeting on 11 November 2011 Chairman Martin Arvad was very pleased to present a historically strong result. The result represented a highly positive development compared to last year’s result. After several years of investment ...

Op veel percelen verloopt de zetmeeloogst moeizaam door natte plekken en rotte aardappelen. Jan Katerberg huurde de loonwerker in om de aardappelen er snel uit te krijgen. Het blad Boerderij maakte een fotoreportage: Moeizame zetmeeloogst (bekijk...

Functional Technologies Corp. is pleased to report the development of a third (3rd) generation of its proprietary acrylamide-preventing (AP) yeast platform, wherein various improvements made to the Company's original underlying AP technology have enabl...

DLV Plant analyseerde de gevolgen van de gemeenschappelijke Landbouwbeleid (GLB) op de inkomsten van de zetmeelaardappelteelt: Er wordt steeds meer duidelijk met betrekking tot de invulling van de bedrijfstoeslag na 2013. In een vertaling van de conto...

Penford Food Ingredients launched a potato-resistant starch, PenFibe™ RS, which allows manufacturers to add dietary to a wide variety of food applications. PenFibe RS features a low water-holding capacity for increased solids/bulk without affecting pro...

Last week the Procter & Gamble Company recognized its top performing external business partners during an awards ceremony at its Business Partner Recognition Dinner. Potato Dehy supplier Farm Frites was among those receiving a top honour.

Tate &Lyle announces that it has signed an exclusive, worldwide license agreement with Eminate Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of The University of Nottingham, UK, for its novel salt reduction technology. The product, currently known as ‘SODA-LO®’,...

The current economic stagnation coupled with very high commodity prices has led food manufacturers to understandably become very price-sensitive. At Cargill, we're always trying to find ways to help our customers promote their products while saving co...

Taypack Potatoes, based near Inchture, supplies Mackie's crisps and the firm is aiming to break into the lucrative export market. However, this move has received a major setback with Mackie's Aberdeen Angus beef-flavoured crisps being banned in Americ...

De zetmeelcampagne van Avebe is in volle gang. Het natte weer van de afgelopen periode leverde nauwelijks achterstand op bij de verwerking. De fabrieken van Avebe in Gasselternijveen en Ter Apelkanaal draaien deze weken op volle toeren. Van het total...

McDonald’s Corporation today announced its membership in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). This membership represents significant progress in the company’s commitment to source palm oil only from RSPO member companies.

Potato starch has a wide range of applications beyond food. Ever considered the use of modified potato starch in the building and construction sector? Here is a recent news item from Avebe: AVEBE, global leader in potato starch, presents the latest in...

A new extraction method promises to deliver large-scale extraction of potato fibres rich in the are especially rich in the pectin rhamnogalacturonan I, could help to produce new ingredients and functional hydrocolloids, say researchers. Writing in Foo...

Denmark is to introduce one of the world’s first-ever “fat taxes,” in a pioneering move to slim the country’s waistlines and combat heart disease. From this Saturday, the price of a pack of butter will soar by 50 cents, a bag of potato chips by 12 cen...