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23 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
NOF are calling for a complete overhaul of dietary advice and public health messaging, saying current low-fat diet advice is based on 'flawed science'...
4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Cargill scientists have created fat systems that lower saturated fat by as much as 40% in shortenings, without compromising finished product attributes...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers at KU Leuven have shed light on how adding limonene could improve the texture in lower-fat versions of chocolate and its ability to melt...
15 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
As part of Mars' Health and Wellbeing Ambition, the company will add nutritional adding guidance on products that should only be consumed once per week...
13 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content producer
The findings of a study suggest that using vegetable oils high in linoleic acid might be worse than using butter when it comes to preventing heart disease...
30 March 2016 | By Victoria White
A study has shown that oral administration of virgin coconut oil effectively reduced formalin-induced paw oedema in mice with more or less similar efficacy as that of diclofenac...
7 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Researchers found that men and women with higher linoleic acid levels tended to have less heart-threatening fat nestled between their vital organs, more lean body mass and less inflammation.
3 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Barry Callebaut has switched the production of two of its most popular fillings from RSPO mass balance to RSPO fully segregated palm products as of January 2016...
In this issue: Fats & Oils, Water Quality, Food Grade Lubricants, Infant Nutrition, Pasta Processing, Regulation, Food Analysis, Fish Processing, Clean Label, NIR, and much more...
22 February 2016 | By Emma Woods, Technical Manager, Phoenix Speciality Oils
The rise in popularity of cold pressed coconut oil has been one of the UK food industry’s great recent success stories. However this food oil, and the manufacturing challenges it presents, are unlike any other.
22 February 2016 | By Dimitra Tsantaki, International Commercial Litigation and Food lawyer, Tsantaki, Michalinos & Tsalmanis Law Firm / Georgios Siragakis, Technical Director of Food Allergens Labs Group
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has evaluated nearly 3,000 ‘general function’ claims and more than 250 other applications over the past few years. In the list of health claims which has been made on foods, as referred to in Article 13 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, a health…
12 February 2016 | By Victoria White
The announcement follows Andean Grain’s recent approval under European Union Novel Food regulations to legally market chia oil within Europe...
26 January 2016 | By Victoria White
The EP Trade Committee has backed the proposed emergency measure to import 70,000 tonnes of olive oil duty free to help boost the Tunisian economy following last year's terrorist attacks in the country...
8 January 2016 | By Victoria White
Following the US Food and Drug Administration’s 2015 ruling on partially hydrogenated oils (PHO), Cargill is offering bread manufacturers its lecithin products as a successful replacement for monoglycerides and DATEM...
10 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Olenex was established in 2012 as a partnership between Archer Daniels Midland Company and Wilmar International Limited for the sale and marketing of refined vegetable oils and fats...
