More than 85% of healthy fruit snacks contain huge amount of hidden sugars per 100g than sweets, according to Action on Sugar. As part of the new study, around 94 products such as fruit leathers, flakes, gums, chews, and coated dried ...
Tags: Fruit Snacks, vegetables
Andros Foods North America is planning to invest $73m to ramp up fruit processing capacity in Shenandoah County, Virginia, over the next three years, while creating 160 new jobs. The investment will be used to add production and ...
A new granola-style blend from Kellogg Australia is the latest addition to its Special K brand’s growing range of cereals. Kellogg’s said the new Whole Grain Clusters provide “whole grains, fibre and protein”. The ...
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Tim Woods, managing director of IndustryEdge, knows that corrugated packaging is the powerhouse of Australasia’s paper industry. Here, he explains why. Australia and New Zealand use the full array of fibre packaging options, from ...
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South African fresh fruit firm Capespan has expanded its fruit packing capability with the acquisition of Novo pack house. Located in Paarl in the Western Cape, Novo pack house is an advanced pome fruit packing facility and it is ...
Tags: fruit, Agriculture
The European Union (EU) is set to lift the ban on Indian Alphonso mango imports, paving the way to resume trade in the UK and other member states. EU has suspended mango imports from India in May last year after finding fruit flies in ...
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Online groceries in Australia set to grow, IBISWorld Online groceries sales in Australia are predicted to grow, reaching $2,194 million in 2015, up 14.6 per cent from $1,914.2 million in 2014, according to market research organisation ...
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Recent suggestions from the Australian Federal Government that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) be applied to the sale of fresh food has sparked concern from both farmers’ groups and the Federal Opposition. Liberal backbencher, Dan ...
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Concerns about labelling and a desire for convenience are trends that are set to continue into 2015, according to global market research organisation Innova Market Insights. Innova Market Insights has released its overview of the Top Ten ...
Tags: Food, Beverage, Agriculture
Australia’s growing appetite for healthy, convenient, pre-packaged salads is seeing the construction of the largest fresh cut salad facility of its kind in New South Wales, thanks to a new deal between producer of value-added ...
Tags: deli salads, baby beetroot, avocadoes, Agriculture
China's consumer prices in November grew by their slowest pace in five years, official data showed on Wednesday, raising the probability of more easing measures by the central bank. China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of ...
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Fairfax Media claims supermarket growth focus on ‘Junk’ food and cigarettes – confidential data leaked Fairfax Media’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Sunday Age over the weekend have published their analysis of ...
Tags: milk, Cigarettes, Agriculture
Australia’s snacking habits revealed, Nielsen Eating between meals is extremely widespread with 96 per cent of Australians saying they regularly consume snack foods, according to new research from global market research ...
Tags: snack foods, Fruit, Agriculture
SkyPeople Fruit Juice, a producer of fruit juice concentrates, fruit juice beverages and other fruit-related products, has announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. Third Quarter 2014 Summary: * Revenue ...
US-based coffee firm Caribou Coffee has added green salads, wraps, pasta salads, snack boxes and fresh fruit to coffeehouse menus across Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. The company claims that new additions are low-calorie, gluten-free ...
Tags: Caribou Coffee, Menu Options, Food