News On Ingredients

Trans fats have been showing up less often in fast-food restaurant meals.Research from the University of Minnesota's Nutrition Coordinating Center has shows major chains have significantly reduced their use of oils that contain trans fat in French frie...

Stories circulated yesterday reported that Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, would be announcing the break up of the Food Standards Agency.  They also suggested that this break up was an indication that the Government had ‘caved in’ to the pressure of...

Mashed potatoes in foodservice operations are up 29% in the past four years. In Q1 2006, the top 350 chain restaurant menus listed 1,749 mashed potato menu items. In Q1 2010, there were 2,256. This is an important and positive trend for potatoes in foo...

Tate &Lyle PLC (“Tate &Lyle”) announces today it has signed an agreement for the sale of its EU Sugar Refining operations (“EUS”) to American Sugar Refining, Inc.  The consideration is £211 million payable in cash, subject to closing adjustment...

Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today announced two key actions that advance its strategy for profitable growth in China and throughout Asia: the opening of a Beijing office;and a strategic investment in, and memorandum of understanding with...

Functional Technologies Corp (TSX-V: FEB), a world leader in yeast research and development, today announced initial test results for bread made with its acrylamide-preventing yeast demonstrated reductions of acrylamide of approximately 90%.

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America business unit announced the introduction of two new Lightly Salted varieties of chips. Fritos Lightly Salted corn chips and Ruffles Lightly Salted potato chips join Lay’s Lightly Salted potato chips, which were launche...

BASF SE has reached an agreement with Cognis Holding Luxembourg S.à r.l. controlled by Permira Funds, GS Capital Partners and SV Life Sciences to acquire the specialty chemicals company Cognis for an equity purchase price of €700 million. Including net...

El organismo que regula los alimentos y fármacos en el Reino Unido está pidiendo que en Inglaterra se eliminen de los alimentos los ácidos grasos trans. Estos compuestos son un tipo de grasas insaturadas presentes principalmente en productos que han s...

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) responded to the publication earlier today of  the NICE guidance on opportunities to improve the diet in the United Kingdom.  Julian Hunt, FDF's Director of Communication states: "We are surprised that NICE has...

Corn Products International, Inc. (NYSE:CPO), a leading global provider of ingredient solutions for diversified industries, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire National Starch, a New Jersey-based global provider o...

BASF plans to strengthen its support services for the food and beverage industry and has established a new Nutrition Ingredients Innovation Laboratory at its technical center in Tarrytown, New York. BASF closed its existing laboratory in Ledgewood, New...

DSM Food Specialties has won the 2010 Frost &Sullivan award for Product Differentiation Excellence with its unique solution for acrylamide mitigation – PreventASe. An enzyme preparation, PreventASe is recognized the best-in-class to mitigate the fo...

ConAgra Foods, Inc., announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell its Gilroy Foods &Flavors dehydrated and vegetable product operations to Olam International for $250 million, subject to final working capital adjustments. The seasoning ...

Avebe mag een deel van dochterbedrijf Meelunie verkopen aan Hoogwegt. De Nederlandse Mededingings Autoriteit (NMa) heeft geen bezwaar tegen de verkoop.   Zetmeelconcern Avebe blijft voor 40 procent eigenaar van Meelunie en verkoopt de overige aandelen ...

Adding the hydrocolloid HPMC to a batter can reduce the uptake of oil during frying and enhance the ‘crunch’ on eating the crispy crust, says new data from Europe. Scientists from TI Food and Nutrition, Spain’s CSIC, and TNO Quality of Life examined th...

Fears that removing harmful trans fats from foods would open the door for manufacturers and restaurants to add other harmful fats to foods seem to be unfounded, a new study finds. A team from Harvard School of Public Health analyzed 83 reformulated p...

Entire fast-food empires have been built around the french fry. But companies still continue to pursue perfection -- as in, a better-for-you fry. The immodestly named Perfect Fry company, out of Calgary, claims to have nailed it. At the National Res...