Wet weather puts Australian wine in good stead for late 2017 vintage
A wet winter and a cool spring has Australia well placed for another strong wine vintage—albeit a little later than in recent years.
Archives for December 20, 2016
By 2020, packaged and RTD coffee in the US will hit $18bn in sales
The US market for packaged and ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee sold at retail was up 10% from the year before to an estimated $13.6bn in 2015, says a new Packaged Facts report. It forecasts the category to continue to grow.
Tea will take off in sales and popularity in 2017 and beyond, says survey
Dietitians have been asked what they think the next big trends in food and beverage will be: and they suggest that tea - in various formats - will be a hot commodity for 2017.
Dispatches from the #SNC16 congress in Frankfurt
Could energy drinks be cut out of the EU caffeine claim loop?
The European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (ESSNA) is lobbying for two different solutions to the EU caffeine claim hold up, one of which could see use of the claims limited to sports supplements only.
‘And the winner is…’ Who will design Heineken’s next generation smart bottle?
Heineken has chosen three out of nine companies to work on its next generation smart bottle, following an Elevator Pitch Contest at the AIPIA (Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association) Congress.
Consumers assume food must be expensive to be healthy: Study
The price of food heavily influences assumptions about nutritious quality and even effects the health issues consumers worry about, a series of experiments at Ohio State University has found
Europe’s Plan B: The ‘Common Food Policy’
An independent think tank, IPES, has been set up to advise the EU and work towards creating a common food policy that would create a sustainable, healthy and profitable food system – a ‘plan B’ to the failures of the current framework.