Food & Beverage News

Defining ingredients!
The food ingredient market is expected to reach $30 billion by 2010-11. India is witnessing a 14–16% growth in the ingredient market. Healthy food ingredients are steadily making their way in the ingredients arena and are game to play it big.

Quality Standards for Food Ingredients – an Essential Element to Fight Adulteration of Food
Besides water, food is the second most essential need for all humans. Furthermore, in most countries the food industry constitutes a significant, if not major contribution to the local economy.

Food Ingredients: efficiently and simply analysed
India is one of the leading countries that produce innovative and application specific food ingredients. The domestic sales of processed foods continue to rise based upon a strong demand for retail and convenience foods.

Speciality Ingredients, the refined class
Tailormade ingredent from indigenous ingredient makers is what the market up for. Dr J S Pai, executive director, Protein Food and Nutrition Development Association of India, chats up on speciality ingredients and the trends in the industry.

Rising demand of Soya ingredients
The Indian food industry is estimated to be over Rs 65,586 crore and is expected to reach Rs 95,382 crore by 2012. The processed food market is projected to be over Rs 33,234 crore in which food ingredients plays an important role to boost demand and market size in the country.

Pristine Organics to use Garden Cress food ingredient
Pristine Organics is creating an awareness of a food ingredient Garden Cress which will be added in the nutritional supplement product of the company. The ingredient is highly recommended as it is used for pregnancy and lactation.

Millets, the answer to India’s food security
India making major efforts to ensure the consumption of millets is on the rise. In this regard considerable importance is given to processing and value addition of finger millet or small millets.

Bakery ingredients
Since 2004, the Indian bakery industry has been taking huge strides forward, undergoing a virtual metamorphosis thanks to increasing consumer gravitation toward convenience products and health food products.

Food Ingredients: The critical link from farm to fork
Food ingredients/additives are an integral part of any foodstuff/beverage and are intended for functional applications such as maintaining quality, consistency, taste, odour and texture of the foodstuff.

IFFA 2010: International market leaders to meet at Frankfurt
IFFA, the much awaited event for processing, packaging, selling is ready to kickstart from May 8-3, 2010. at Frankfurt in Germany With over 900 exhibitors presenting their latest products and services in an area of over 1,00,000 square metres, the world’s leading trade fair for the sector is set to surpass the the bencharmark it set for itself in 2007.

Celebrating Colors with ITC
ITC Colors an ISO-9001:2000 company has been actively involved in the production & marketing of Varnacol brand of food colours in the international marketplace for the last eighteen years.