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Engineers develop robotic healthy fast food vending machine
A Russian university has developed a robotic vending machine that could serve healthy meals to users, complete with its own ‘brain’ to remember user preferences.
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JBS enters cultivated protein market with BioTech Foods takeover
Food manufacturing giant JBS foods has acquired BioTech as it looks to enter the growing cultivated protein market, as well as announcing a protein research centre in Brazil.
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Language matters when it comes to health claims
The way in which health claims are understood on food packaging varies greatly between different countries, where differences in language can change the meaning and perception of health claims.
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Watch this week’s F&B news in 60 seconds
Catch up with this week’s food and drink headlines, including Thanksgiving turkey welfare concerns and a secret weapons to cut methane emissions.
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Sustaining mint
With the mint supply chain under threat, Eric Dowd of Mars Wrigley provides details of a solution that will help secure this valuable crop’s future.
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Catch up with this week's food and drink headlines, including more meat sector labour woes and new net zero targets.
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Nutrition and health claims on functional foods in the EU
As we see increasing interest in functional foods, Professor. Dr. Hans Verhagen offers an overview of current EU regulation with regards to health and nutrition claims.
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An insider’s view of food crime
Chris Elliott recaps the biggest risks currently facing the food and drink sector, including organised crime, shortages and authenticity, and calls for more discussion around solutions.
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Miracle berry – developing its promise
Miraculin could be a game changer in the sweeteners market when all its forms gain legal approval and become cost effective.
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60-second news – this week’s headlines delivered to you in one minute
Is the UK facing a diabetes epidemic? Listen to this along with our other top headlines in this week's 60 second news.
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“Analyse the data” – top food chain actors urge Farm to Fork rethink
The group of European food chain organisations has urged the European Commission to rethink the Farm to Fork strategy so as not to destabilise the continent’s food supply.
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Arla Foods Ingredients open new innovation centre in Denmark
The ingredients arm of food manufacturing giant, Arla Foods, says the new innovation centre will enable it to “bridge the gap” between research and manufacturing sustainable food.
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60-second news – this week’s headlines delivered to you in one minute
This week's rapid roundup of food and beverage news includes changes to breakfast cereal and a world famous recruit for the UN.
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Spanish chorizo sector makes sustainability investments
The chorizo sector in Spain is making fresh efforts to modernise its production processes on the back of the COVID-19 crisis, with several large manufacturers committing to sustainability initiatives.
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59 million teaspoons of sugar to be removed from Nestlé breakfast cereals
The ‘salami slice’ approach adopted by manufacturer CPUK has meant the move to lower sugar content has been gradual and has been accompanied by an increase in fibre content too.
