Food & Beverage News

Bakery Ingredients Making better bread
Consumers are now enjoying several varieties of bread. This presents bakers with a chance to design and optimise innovative formulae that improve the quality and nutritional profile of bread, at the same time ensuring its shelf life, ease of processing and consistent final product specifications.

Bakeries are waking up to modern equipment
Apple Bakery Machinery Pvt. Ltd is an easily recognisable name in the bakery machinery industry. This Mumbai-based importer of machines has a strong clientele like Pantaloon Retail Ltd, Taj, Leela and Oberoi Group of Hotels, Monginis Foods Pvt. Ltd, Haldiram Foods Ltd, Daily Bread Gourmet Foods, so on and so forth.

Competition, multiple taxes, high input costs hit biscuit industry hard
Biscuit is an any-time snack consumed by almost 90 per cent of the country’s population. At tea-time, biscuit is a must in all families. Biscuit is the main snack for school-going children, the sick & the old, and people on the move.

Cakes & Pastries market in Asia-Pacific worth $35.2bn by 2013
The cakes and pastries category in Asia-Pacific was valued at $24.4bn in 2008 and Datamonitor forecasts that it will grow at a CAGR of 7.6% between 2008 and 2013, reaching a value of $35.2bn in 2013.

“Constant innovation and economies of scale drive bakery equipment market”
Indian bakery equipment market is on a growth trajectory. Key drivers are the skilled manpower, dual household incomes and the increasing number of bakeries to cater to the wide range of products and rising consumption levels.

Chocolate Food of the Gods
Chocolate is one of the most popular sweets and also one of the most popular flavours for a variety of foods including beverages, ice creams, etc. It has even entered many ethnic foods like burfi, shrikhand etc.

Ice creams for all seasons
Do you remember the childhood hours spent waiting for the ice-cream-walla uncle who dragged his push-cart carrying candies during the scorching heat of summers? One bite was enough to enter heavendom.

FI India 2010 – bring innovation in process food industry
India remains the world’s fastest growing market for food ingredients and Fi India 2010 is the exhibition that brings the players in this dynamic market together. Fi India is the sub – continent’s only forum where food manufacturers attend to source their ingredients products.

Tools & equipment for cake and food decoration
Articulate your ideas and vision of cake decoration by using “NOOR” cake and food decorating equipment.

Kemin launches AMPLIFRESH™ Antimicrobial System
Kemin Food Technologies, a division of Kemin Industries,has announced the launch of AMPLIFRESHTM, a unique antimicrobial system designed to keep cakes and muffins fresh and safe for a longer period of time without impacting their original taste profile.

Death of an icon!
The major development for the confectionaery world this year was the Kraft's buyout of Cadbury.

UK-based AAK introduces sustainable palm oil for bakers
UK-based AAK, part of AarhusKarlshamn group and supplier of edible oils and fats, has introduced a new product to help commercial bakers meet consumer demand for sustainable palm oil in their food.