Beet Campaign Begins: Nordic Sugar Expects “Significant Drop” in Yields in Some Drought-Impacted Regions
Category: Sugar
(Food Ingredients First) - Danish sugar processor Nordic Sugar, a member of Germany’s Nordzucker Group, has begun the harvest and processing of sugar beets, referred... Full Story
Rainforest Alliance and UTZ Merger: Mutual Recognition Offerings in Cocoa, Tea and Hazelnut Program
Category: Cocoa
(Food Ingredients First) - Beginning July 1, 2019, international... Full Story
Sustainable Coconut Oil: Cargill Launches Mass Balance Model Coatings and Fillings
Category: Cocoa
(Food Ingredients First) - Cargill’s cocoa and chocolate business claims to be the first company to use... Full Story
Layn Pegs Monk Fruit as a “Cross-Functional” Reduced-Sugar Solution
Category: Sugar
(Food Ingredients First) - The plant-based and “free-from” movements are... Full Story
“Genuine chocolate taste”: Cargill Launches Cocoa Powder for Baked Goods
Category: Cocoa
(Food Ingredients First) - Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate has launched a new cocoa powder, Gerkens CT70, to its cocoa powder brand Gerkens. The launch is specifically designed for... Full Story
Weekly Roundup: Solvay Increases Price of Vanillin and Ethyl-Vanillin Ingredients
Category: Miscellaneous
(Food Ingredients First) - In... Full Story
Dessert Trends: Visual Appeal, Keeping a Clean Image and Vegan NPD
Category: Trends
(Food Ingredient First) - More than clean label, today we see a trend... Full Story
Sweet Choices: “Sugar Reduction and Clean Labeling Significant but not Predominant,” says Innova Market Insights
(Food Ingredient First) - Across the ten highest consuming nations... Full Story
Wheat Crop Review: Drought Leads to Low Volume, Quality Weakened, Advises LCI
Category: Grains
(Food Ingredients First) - European wheat yields have taken a... Full Story
Weekly Roundup: BASF Closes Bayer Seeds Buy, ADM Strengthens Oilseeds Processing Position
Category: Miscellaneous
(Food Ingredients First) - In a busy week on the commodity front, BASF... Full Story
Clean Label: Ulrick & Short Launches Cold Swelling Starches
Category: Miscellaneous
(Food Ingredients First) - Ulrick & Short has expanded their clean label... Full Story
Icon gets Reduced Sugar Option: Cadbury Dairy Milk with 30 Percent Less Sugar to Debut in UK & Ireland
Category: Sugar
(Food Ingredients First) - A sugar-reduced version of the iconic British... Full Story
Tereos becomes #2 global sugar producer, displays record operational performance
Category: Sugar
(Food Ingredients First) - Tereos has reported resilient results in a market context characterized by sugar ... Full Story
FDA and USDA streamline produce safety requirements for farmers
Category: FDA, Food Safety, USDA
(Food Ingredients First) - As part of the US Food... Full Story
Sustainable cocoa farming: Barry Callebaut intensifies cooperation with Ghana and Ivory Coast authorities
Category: Cocoa
(Food Ingredients First) - Barry Callebaut has joined forces... Full Story
The First Year : Trump and Food-Related Policies
Category: Miscellaneous
(Food Ingredients First) - FoodIngredientsFirst examines how the billionaire businessman turned US President and his... Full Story
Making Asian Cocoa Great Again
Category: Cocoa
(Food Ingredients First) - Cocoa giant Barry Callebaut is calling on people around the world to “make Asian cocoa great again” as part of a campaign ahead of this fall’s cocoa-focused conference in Sinagpore. The company wants to return to an age when cocoa crops and grinding in Asia were at an all-time high. The Asian cocoa sector is currently in bad shape because the entire cocoa supply chain... Full Story
Dairy Industry Welcomes Action by USTR Lighthizer to Launch NAFTA Modernization Efforts
(Food Ingredients First) - In a notification letter sent today to Congress, Ambassador Lighthizer... Full Story
Barry Callebaut Expands Cocoa Nurseries Program in Indonesia
Category: Cocoa
(Food Ingredients First) - One of Barry Callebaut’s’s primary goals in Forever Chocolate is to lift more than 500,000 farmers out of poverty... Full Story
INTERVIEW: Barry Callebaut Looks to Meet 2025 100% Sustainable Chocolate Goals
Category: Cocoa
(Food Ingredients First) - The future of cocoa farming currently looks bleak and requires intervention from industry in order to protect the long term future of cocoa and chocolate. 60% of cocoa farmers in West Africa are living in extreme... Full Story
Nordzucker Processes an Extra 2.5 Tons of Sugar Beet in 2016 Ahead of Removal of EU Quotas
Category: Sugar
(Food Ingredients First) - Nordzucker has processed an extra 2.5m tons of sugar beet in 2016 ahead of a year... Full Story
SPECIAL REPORT: The Food Industry Responds to Trump’s Victory
Category: Policy
(Food Ingredients First) - As the dust begins to settle following the most contentious US election in history, the global food industry begins to react to president-elect Donald Trump and his Republican Vice President Mike Pence taking the reigns for the next four years and what the immediate and future... Full Story
The Functionality of Sugar in Sweet Bakery
Category: Sugar
(Food Ingredients First) - Not too long ago it was fat that was considered the healthy eater’s nemesis, now it’s the... Full Story
High Sugar Prices Could Trigger Supply Tightness in the EU, According to Radobank
Category: Sugar
(Food Ingredients First) - The scheduled abolition of the EU sugar production quota by October 2017 does not... Full Story
Food Policy Missing From US Presidential Debates, Despite Majority Shopper Interest
Category: Policy
(Food Ingredients First) - At a time when Democrats and Republicans agree on few solutions to the challenges... Full Story
USDA’s $56 Million Cash Injection for Organics and Local Food
Category: Policy
(Food Ingredients First) - Research into organics, regional food systems and support for farmers markets are being given a US$56 million boost in funding as the US government creates new market opportunities for producers and encourages consumers to better connect with their food... Full Story
