News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
A recent analysis of more than 1,500 cereals, including 181 marketed for children, by the Environmental Working Group found that a person eating an average serving of cereal a day for a year ends up consuming 10 pounds of sugar.
Milling & Grains Bite-size news
Ardent Mills venture OK with divestment, UK wheat harvest recovering, Drip irrigation revival in South West France, Major’s to fund Canadian research, Pakistan cement bag controversy.
The founders of Bitsy’s Brainfood, which has launched a new line of childrens’ breakfast cereals to go with its cookies, used their experience as mothers and working with kids in eductation and nonprofit organizations to drive their goals for the brand,...
Developing western snacks with an ‘Arabic’ spin on them
The Middle East is the fastest growing market, in terms of business growth for tna, according to Michael Green, managing director, tna Australia.
Coupling cereal crops with complementary legume traits could double the availability of phosphorus in soils and reduce farmers’ dependence on fertilizers, say scientists.
General Mills and Kellogg have dismissed Oxfam’s claim that they are the ‘worst offenders’ on global greenhouse gas emissions and not doing enough to tackle climate change.
Salt of the Earth has spent $1.3m on an automatic packaging production line to improve the quality of its products and expand the number of its pack options.
Snacks and confectionery have truly blurred from a product perspective and retail slant, says the president of the National Confectioners Association (NCA).