Givaudan has unveiled a new, revolutionary approach to creating unique chicken flavours. Combining global research with culinary exploration into how chicken is consumed around the world, Givaudan believes it has developed new and better performing ingredients for its industry-leading palette to enable the creation of authentic, superior chicken flavours to help drive product preference.Givaudan surveyed 7,300 consumers in 14 countries and observed home-cooking first-hand, translating their needs... ...Read more »
As food manufacturers around the world step up their focus on producing new products that can cater toward a growing demand for healthy products, an Australian company has become the first to create a fruit snack bar without using puree, juice or additives. Cheeky Chewz has devised a method to produce 100% dried fruit bars that, unlike most bars, are not made from fruit juice or fruit puree. Only the stones/cores of the fruit are removed, with the whole fruit, skin and all, naturally preserved as... ...Read more »
Two Belgian chocolate producers are the first in the world to release tooth-friendly chocolate products onto the market. Daskalidès and Chocolaterie Smet, released the much anticipated chocolate products yesterday, with the release an extension of the current push toward healthier chocolate products. Tooth-friendly chocolate is a innovation courtesy of Barry Callebaut, a world leading producer of high quality cocoa and chocolate. Barry Callebaut’s toothfriendly chocolate has been bestowed... ...Read more »
Seminis, a prominent global fruit and vegetable seed organisation, has announced the Australian release of its unique Pink Pearl cherry tomatoes to directly benefit the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).Seminis Vegetable Seeds Western Australia manager, John McBride, said the world’s first commercial release of Pink Pearl cherry tomatoes presented a “good fit” for a corporate partnership with the Australian charity due to their name and colour. “Globally Seminis is... ...Read more »
Karpati Water, a Sydney-based company, has come up with an innovative way of producing high quality drinking water from fruit. The method utilised in making water from fruit incorporates the process of making fruit concentrates. Fruit concentrates are typically made from steaming the fruit, with 3 out of 4 litres ’steamed’ off to make the end product. Karpati Water, however, is made from a ‘pressure-chilling’ process, which reportedly retains the high quality fruit water and makes... ...Read more »
Zip-Pak, a global leader in building brands through resealable packaging, has launched new technology which will enable greater differentiation amongst manufacturers. The ZIP-PAK TopZip Jr. retrofit system, launched at PACK EXPO International 2008, is economical, upgradeable and has a smaller footprint than traditional stand-alone zipper applicators. These benefits allow companies in emerging Asian markets to provide consumers with brand-differentiating resealable packaging for powdered milk, tea,... ...Read more »
Power outages this summer could cost supermarkets hundreds of thousands of dollars in damaged or destroyed fresh food.A sudden brown-out or black-out, with increasing numbers of homes and buildings drawing on the power grids, will catch many owners and staff unawares forcing expensive loss of goods. An Australian company, Australian Industrial Rental (AIR), has developed a solution for supermarkets and fresh food retailers, and the fresh food industry, with a power generator that automatically synchs... ...Read more »
Victorian-based Cool Change Natural Spring Water has launched Australia’s first beverage (spring water) packaged in a bottle made from plants, as they seek to “go green” in an industry often criticised for a lack of sustainability. Rather than packaging a drink in PET, a polymer (plastic) derived from crude oil, Cool Change Natural Spring Water bottles are made using Ingeo PLA, derived from annually renewable sources - plants. This new material is derived from plant sugars and requires... ...Read more »
Buderim Ginger has been awarded $245,100 to create an allergy-free ginger product, Queensland’s Industry Minister, Desley Boyle, announced this week.The funding, from the State Government’s Business and Industry Transformation Incentives (BITI) scheme, will go towards the development of a new processing system that eliminates the need to use sulphites as a preservative. Minister Boyle said that Yandina-based Buderim Ginger was one of the world’s leading manufacturers of confectionery... ...Read more »
PakSense, Inc., an innovator in sensory solutions for packaging, announced at the recent Produce Marketing Association’s annual Fresh Summit convention that it will release a wireless version of its award-winning temperature monitoring label in December. The PakSense Ultra Wireless Label will enable users to wirelessly download time and temperature information and analyze data before unloading a perishable product from a container. PakSense Ultra Wireless Labels are activated and applied to... ...Read more »