Food & Beverage News

Get a taste of new flavours
This year, Food Ingredient India, organised by CMP India (UBM India Pvt Ltd) & CMP Information, will introduce a much more comprehensive event format similar to other popular Fi events found around the globe.

At the forefront of innovation and developments
HAF CENNYDD, event manager-Emerging Markets, CMP Information, has worked in the events industry since 2000 in the UK and has been involved in organising more than 50 events in various markets.

New vistas in food ingredients
Indian consumers are going through colossal life-style changes. The effects on their dietary habits are enormous. This is especially true of urban consumers but others are also catching up fast.

The importance of essential Ingredients
Ingredients are an essential part of today's life. These play a vital role in almost every aspect of life. We all keep on using some products & are fine with that until we come across their real & superior versions.

Codex Standard lists suitable additives
The standard for food ingredients and additives that are used in the processed food in India has been declared by the government which included in the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006

DSM's Teavigo helps contain obesity
Throughout Asian history green tea has been well known for its health benefits. Today we know that major constituents are flavonoids, a large family of polyphenolic compounds.

Regulatory framework must be implemented
Mumbai-based Euro Foods, an Indian arm of IREKS Germany, has introduced worldclass bread premixes, improvers and fillings.

Kemin & Calpro enter into strategic alliance
Kemin Industries South Asia Pvt Ltd and Calpro Foods Pvt Ltd have entered into a strategic alliance to manufacture and market food grade antimicrobial calcium propionate, further enabling Kemin to deliver its superior shelf life

HAHN offers food stabiliser systems
The 160-year-old company, G C Hahn is producing and promoting food stabiliser systems that will meet the food processors' technical and commercial requirements.

ITC provides new plant-extracted natural ingredients
Recognising the current needs of the marketplace and legislations like the Food Safety Act, Integrated Trading Company (ITC) is now providing and promoting new types of plant extracted natural ingredients in a unified and proactive manner.

Nutralys Pea Protein from Roquette
Keeping in mind the increased consumption of vegetable proteins, Roquette developed a new protein- Nutralys Pea Protein. Satisfying current food safety and nutritional value requirements

Call for Nutrition Index at Fi India
Dr V Prakash, director, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, and coordinator, United Nations University ( CFTRI), made an impassioned plea for a national movement for ensuring a higher nutrition index

Taiwan's Poloku offers aginomoto alternative
Consumers, who have experienced the ill-effects of Monosodium glutamate, commonly known as MSG (aginomoto), that leaves them with a headache, nausea or vomiting after eating foods with this ingredient

Sudanese Gum Arabic comes to India
"Gum Arabic" Grade I called Hashab and Grade II called Talha will now be introduced in Indian markets through Amarjee, the only natural gum company representing India globally.

Of PFNDAI, ILSI and their role in betterment of human nutrition, food safety
Among the experts attending the one of a kind Food Ingredients conference(Fi India 2007) was Dr G M TEWARI, General Manager - Beverage Quality Laboratory / Product Development, Coca- Cola India Pvt Ltd

Nutrigenomics to offer personalised dietary advice
Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics, just born in India will be the future of researchers, consumers, scientists and manufacturers: Kamla Krishnaswamy, president of the Nutrition Society of India.

Soaring food prices will hurt world's poor: FAO
Soaring food prices would hurt the world's poor and increase the risks of political upheaval, a senior United Nations food agency said "We are squeezed between increasing oil prices and food price hikes," said Alexander Sarris, director