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SPONSORED MESSAGE | | | Trends To Watch: Food Color Predictions for 2020 From interactive product experiences to next-gen plant-based meats, 2020 is going to be an exciting year for the food and beverage industry. This guide dives into five food color trends to look for this year to help your brand stay ahead of the curve... Click Here |
Fewer than 2% of packed school lunches meet key nutritional standards, study finds Packed lunches from home have typically been considered the healthier alternative to meals provided by the school cafeteria, but a recent study found that bringing lunch from home doesnât always mean a child is eating a nutritionally-balanced meal... Read Roquette âsignificantly increasesâ pea protein supply deal with Beyond Meat Ingredients specialist Roquette has extended its pea protein supply agreement with Beyond Meat for three more years. The amount supplied will âsignificantlyâ increase compared to 2019 figures, Roquette executive Jean-Philippe Azoulay tells FoodNavigator... Read Most consumers arenât interested in using or havenât heard of CBD, according to CivicScience Despite all the buzz around CBD and the near steady stream of product launches across food and beverage categories featuring the ingredient, the majority of Americans have not heard of the ingredient, never used it or have no interest in it, according to new research from CivicScience... Read US and China sign âphase oneâ of new trade deal After coming to a verbal trade agreement in December, President Donald Trump and General Secretary Xi Jinping signed the first installment of the deal on Wednesday... Read Ben & Jerry's hits back at lawsuit: We never said *all* of our milk came from happy cows⦠Ben & Jerryâs (old) packaging states that it uses âmilk & cream from happy cows,â acknowledges the company in a motion to dismiss a high-profile false advertising lawsuit over animal welfare. But it âdoesnât use the word âexclusivelyâ.â.. Read Califia Farms raises $225m to expand plant-based empire: âWe're carefully evaluating opportunities to expand beyond beverages' Plant-based food and beverage brand Califia Farms has raised $225m in a Series D funding round led by sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), and says it is "carefully evaluating opportunities to expand beyond beverages and into many more culinary applications.".. Read NEWS IN BRIEF Plant-based seafood brand Good Catch raises over $32m in Series B financing round Gathered Foods, parent company to plant-based seafood brand Good Catch, has closed a series B funding round led by several industry players including Greenleaf Foods and 301 INC, the venture arm of General Mills... Read hellowater, RISE Brewing Co., and UPTIME Energy to join Nestlé Waters North America's ReadyRefresh portfolio of brands Many may recognize Nestlé Waters North Americaâs delivery service, ReadyRefresh, for its 5-gallon water jugs delivered to virtually every corporate office that has a water cooler, but the service is expanding into several burgeoning beverage categories this year... Read Investing the in Future of Food: Focus on âweâ not âmeâ to build the strongest team Entrepreneurs just starting out may feel pressured to present a façade of perfection or else risk missing an opportunity, but the CEO of Lilyâs Sweets, Jane Miller, argues the opposite is true â that failing to seek help managing weaknesses or bridging knowledge gaps can hold back emerging leaders and brands... Watch now Atkins Nutritionals & Rob Lowe tackle misinformation about the low-carb diet in new campaign Recognizing that there is a lot of information â and misinformation â about different diets, weight management brand Atkins Nutritionals is launching a new multi-marketing campaign with spokesman Rob Lowe that aims to set the record straight about what living a low-carb lifestyle actually means by directly answering consumer questions... Read Bill introduced to add CBD to DSHEAâs supplement definitions Building on a regulatory foundation already laid for hemp ingredients, Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN) has proposed a bill that would include CBD under the definition of dietary supplements found in DSHEA... Read Amarlane Foods debuts plant-based Betterine spread made from coconut oil: 'Weâre not claiming that itâs healthy, but it is naturalâ Amarlane Foods spent the past three years in heavy R&D to bring its plant-based spread â made of coconut oil, water, soy lecithin, and arrowroot powder â to market... Read KIND updates labels to reflect research showing calories from nuts have been âgrossly miscalculatedâ KIND is reducing calorie counts on its nut bars to reflect USDA research suggesting that traditional methods for calculating energy have "grossly miscalculated" the metabolizable energy from whole nuts, the core ingredients in its snacks... Read Experts urge industry to work with schools to improve kidsâ meals even as standards are rolled back Health and nutrition experts are urging food manufacturers to create healthier options for schools to serve students after new research shows that strengthened nutrition standards in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 are working and the fears that prompted the roll back of parts of the legislation have not panned out... Read TreeHouse ends cereal transaction with Post, strikes bakery deal with Richâs TreeHouse Foods is selling two bakery facilities to Rich Products Corporation, following the announcement that its deal to sell the ready-to-eat cereal business to Post has ended after a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)... Read Save the date! Join us at the 3rd FoodNavigator-USA FOOD FOR KIDS summit in Chicago, Nov 11-13, 2020 By 2026, 80% of millennials will have children, and their expectations are changing, says Whole Foods Market, which listed âreimagining the kidsâ menuâ as one its top 10 trends to watch this year... Watch now Honeycut Kitchen puts a healthier spin on the nostalgic snack cake Honeycut Kitchen, an emerging brand out of Los Angeles, is giving fitness enthusiasts an alternative to the monotony of protein bars with a lineup of snack cakes reminiscent of America's best-selling brands, but with a cleaner ingredients deck and more nutritious profile... Read Booming brands and ropey regulations: CBD Global Summit 2020 speakers revealed From the complexities of regulation and cutting-edge science to the brands behind the boom, the CBD Global Summit will bridge the business and science underpinning this fast-moving category... Read Glucomannan (konjac flour) added to FDA list of dietary fibers The FDA has granted a citizen petition* requesting that glucomannan (found in the root of the elephant yam, also known as the konjac plant) be added to the list of ingredients classified as dietary fiber on US food and supplement labels... Read Consumers are being misled by unregulated terms such as âlightly sweetenedâ and âsorta sweet,â claims CSPI If a beverage contains 25g of added sugar and describes itself as âjust a tad sweet,â is it misleading shoppers? In the absence of a legal definition of terms such as âlow sugarâ or âlightly sweetened,â the courts have delivered mixed opinions on lawsuits addressing this issue in recent years, but health advocacy group The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) says itâs high time the FDA stepped in... Read Move over matcha! Hojicha could appeal to an even broader audience, says tea startup Search for âhojichaâ on Google Trends and youâll see a notable uptick in US searches over the past couple of years as Americans seek to learn more about the roasted green tea, which is low in caffeine and lacks the bitterness of regular green tea, says one Toronto-based startup dedicated to bringing it to a broader audience... Read Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Pressure mounts to improve transparency, sustainability & social responsibility As we enter the next decade, consumers will continue to wield the power they took from food and beverage brands during the last ten years to drive increased transparency, sustainability and social responsibility, predicts one leading market analyst and communications expert... Listen now |
SPONSORED MESSAGE | | | Webinar: ISO 11133 culture media quality assurance Ask our food microbiology expert your questions about culture media quality assurance and get practical lab tips for your daily culture media handling, preparation, shelf-life and performance testing. Register today for our January 22 webinar... Click Here | CSPI seeks more oversight of online grocery retailersâ marketing, urges more promotion of healthy food After evaluating the ecommerce marketing strategies of six national retailers, the Center for Science in the Public Interest is urging federal regulators to control more tightly the types of products retailers can promote on their websites to better promote healthy options... Read Retailers must expand online-to-offline capabilities to capture new era of experience-seeking consumers Consumers are moving across online and offline channels more fluidly, leaving retailers needing to create a variety of new customer touchpoints to build engagement and shopper loyalty... Read BIG NAME BRANDS ON BOARD Healthy Ageing APAC Summit 2020: Brands Suntory, Blackmores, Herbalife, Nippn, Amado and Cerecin confirmed The first wave of speakers has been announced for this yearâs Healthy Ageing APAC Summit, with experts from blockbuster brands Brands Suntory, Blackmores and Herbalife among the confirmed speakers... Read | |