News On Ingredients

January 04, 2008

Ingredient manufacturer Wild prepares to go public

Wild is putting together an experienced team in preparation for its planned initial public offering, tapping Symrise's CFO to take it through the process. The plan to go public in 2010 was announced in September, and will necessitate restructuring of W...

January 03, 2008

Calgary trans fat ban: the risks

Calgary may be making history this week as the first Canadian city to ban trans fats in restaurants, but that doesn't mean eating out will soon become much healthier. Some nutrition experts are concerned the massive push to eliminate trans fats in Ca...

January 02, 2008

Milwaukee Cargill plant makes first national brand of hamburger

Cargill%20Inc. is turning its attention to ground beef for its next national branding effort. Cargill earlier this year introduced Meadowlands Farms ground beef -- its first effort in branding a product that had always been considered a commodity -- an...

January 02, 2008

Tate & Lyle completes Mexican sugar sale

Tate &Lyle has completed its sale of its Mexican sugar business, removing itself from volatile commodity markets and allowing it to refocus on value-added ingredients.The ingredients giant announced the move in October and has since received cleara...

December 31, 2007

GAIN report: Malaysia oilseeds and products update 2007

Malaysia's crude palm oil (CPO) production rose 4.4 percent to 1.6 MMT in November. The increase in palm oil production and decline in palm oil exports more than offset the increase in domestic disappearance, resulting in an increase in carryout stocks...

December 26, 2007

Nieuwe recordprijs voor palmolie op Maleisische beurs

De palmolieprijs is woensdag naar een nieuw record gestegen. Niet alleen is het product in trek voor het gebruik als alternatieve brandstof, palmolie wordt ook steeds meer gebruikt voor het bereiden van voedsel. Meer dan 80 procent van de productie wor...

December 18, 2007

Floods in Malaysia may drive up palm oil price

Severe flooding in Malaysia looks likely to affect palm oil supplies for November and December, sparking a shortage that would drive up prices.Sabri Ahmad, chairman of Malaysian Palm Oil Board, told Reuters news agency that he expects December producti...

December 18, 2007

McDonald's cambia la composicion de su aceite de fritura para reducir los acidos grasos

McDonald's ha anunciado el cambio voluntario de la composición de su aceite de fritura para reducir los niveles de ácidos grasos 'trans' a menos de un 2% y el contenido de ácidos grasos saturados a menos del 12%, informó hoy la compañía.

December 14, 2007

FSA: trans fat ban in the UK not needed

A New York-style ban on trans fats in food is not needed in the UK because consumption rates are already very low, the official food watchdog has said. The Food Standards Agency's (FSA) Board ruled out mandatory restrictions after reviewing evidence ...

December 14, 2007

Avebe wil veldproef met GMO aardappel op 120 hectare

Aardappelzetmeelconcern Avebe wil een veldproef met genetisch gemodificeerde aardappelen met een verlaagd amylosegehalte uitvoeren. Het bedrijf heeft hiervoor een vergunning bij het ministerie van VROM aangevraagd. In totaal moeten de proefvelden zo'n ...

December 10, 2007

GAIN report: Germany Food Processing Ingredient Sector 2007

In 2006, Germany produced an estimated $174 billion of processed food and drinks, marking a 3.4% increase over the previous year. Best product prospects for U.S. suppliers include specialized food ingredients, fish &seafood products, dried &pro...

December 10, 2007

Palm oil prices stay high despite mounting supplies

Crude palm oil production is up 4.4 per cent from October in Malaysia, according to the Malaysian Palm Oil Board, but this has not led to a fall in prices amid the current volatility of the crude and soya oil markets.The total palm oil stock, including...

December 07, 2007

P&G says Pringles not made with banned additive

Pringles potato chips are not made with an additive banned in China, Procter &Gamble Co, which markets the potato chips, said on Friday. China state media had reported on Friday that a batch of chips had been blocked from import. The batch of bar...

December 07, 2007

Umami in the food industry and at home

The food industry is embracing umami as part of an effort to deliver highly flavored foods to consumers while also cutting back on fat, salt, sugar and artificial ingredients. It was identified in the early 20th century by Kikunae Ikeda, a Japanese ...

December 06, 2007

Three million pounds of sodium cut from ConAgra food

ConAgra Foods has said it has removed nearly three million pounds of sodium from a range of products without affecting taste.The firm said it will continue to look at ways of cutting down salt, and said it has already managed to remove up to 20 per cen...

December 05, 2007

Check out the Potato Industry in India

Last week I received more information on one of the two (!) large potato conferences next year in India, so I decided this was a good time to pay attention to the fast changes in the Indian Potato Processing industry.

December 05, 2007

Avebe Solanic potato protein factory officially opened

Today, the Dutch Secretary of State for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Gerda Verburg, opened the new factory of Solanic, part of the potato-starch group Avebe. In her opening speech, Secretary of State Verburg set out her vision of biorefine...

December 04, 2007

Ontario To Make Schools Trans-Fat Free

Ontario is taking action to make schools healthier places to learn by moving to drop trans fat from lunchroom menus."Our kids' health is just too important to risk,"said Premier Dalton McGuinty. "Trans fats have no place in our schools a...