WE know drinking soft drink can be bad for the waistline, now a study by Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute researchers provides evidence of the damaging metabolic effects on overweight and obese people...

Dear readers … Australian Food News will not be publishing on Wednesday 19 September 2018 out of respect for Yom Kippur, in accordance with the policy of its publisher. This policy has operated since...

REGISTER your trade mark prior to doing business – or risk losing your right to register and use it in China, writes Dr Chris Vindurampulle, Senior Associate, Patent & Trade Marks Attorney, Watermark...

A SPIRALLING decline in beer drinking is leading Australia to a 55-year low in alcohol consumption, though figures show ours “guts” continue growing. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics report,...

INDIA has a reputation as a vegetarian nation, and Indians certainly consume far less meat than the global average. But the view of India as a predominantly vegetarian nation may not be quite accurate. India,...

A UNIQUE and award-winning program is helping farmers pass their hard-earned knowledge and experience down the line to the next generations. Farming is in your blood – it’s all you have known. As a...

IF you needed further evidence the butcher shop was, to say the least challenged, Victoria’s largest independent retailer has entered voluntary administration. Tasman Butchers’ poor performing stand-alone,...

AUSTRALIA’S best new products have been named at the nation’s biggest food event, the Fine Food Australia convention in Melbourne. Each year the Best New Product Awards recognise the most...

PERSIMMON growers across Queensland will have better market access to Thailand thanks to a trade agreement finalised this week. The agreement delivers a new irradiation plan for fresh produce to Thailand,...

WE all know eating “healthy” food is good for our physical health and can decrease our risk of developing diabetes, cancer, obesity and heart disease. What is not as well known is that eating healthy...