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Sensient Technologies announced that it has acquired Vancouver-based Mazza Innovation Limited, a global leader in botanical extraction technology. The addition of Mazza Innovation is a major step in the evolution of Sensient’s “seed to shelf” strategy to innovate across the value chain for natural and organic ingredients. Mazza’s patented solvent-free clean extraction technology expands current…
Dairy manufacturers can now achieve premium texture, using a cost-efficient and sustainably sourced ingredient for creamy dairy desserts. Satiagel Seabrid is a new type of carrageenan extract, based on 100 percent cultivated seaweed, enabling a reliable supply of sustainably sourced ingredients while also delivering the texture preferred by consumers. This launch follows the 2017 debut…
On the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour, Taco Terheijden, Director of Cocoa Sustainability at Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, reflects on efforts so far to tackle child labour in the cocoa sector. Almost two decades ago, the International Convention on the Rights of the Child declared that all children should be protected from work…
At this year’s IFT 2018 in Chicago, Rousselot will be showcasing its clean label gelatin solutions that help create enjoyable moments of indulgence. Rousselot experts will be on hand to highlight how latest gelatin innovations can provide an endless range of textures – playing with characteristics, such as gel strength and viscosity, gelatin types, concentration…
At this year’s IFT, DSM will showcase a range of products and solutions that enable better and healthier meals and snacks at every moment of the day. With innovative new vitamin, enzyme, texture, taste, coloration and sugar reduction solutions in its portfolio, DSM will demonstrate ways food and beverage manufacturers can cater to the demand…
Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, and the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) signed a letter of intent June 4, to intensify the cooperation on sustainable cocoa farming. The purpose of the letter of intent is for both signatories to work collaboratively towards the design and validation of a sustainable…
As part of the new food and nutrition labelling regulations, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that chicory root fibers will enter the newly established list of approved dietary fibers. This means that BENEO’s ingredients, Orafti inulin and oligofructose, will continue to appear as dietary fibers on the Nutrition and Supplement Facts…
Written by Patricia Moles, Sustainability Specialist, Instituto Arapyau Everybody in Brazil knows the story of Bahian cocoa. Theobroma cacao originated in Mesoamerica and had been cultivated in the Amazon basin by indigenous people for thousands of years before the Portuguese colonized present-day Brazil in the sixteenth century. At that time, landowners established large cocoa plantations…
Symrise AG remains on track for strong growth in the fiscal year 2018 and achieved a very healthy 7.5 % organic increase in sales in the first quarter. All segments benefited from good demand. Taking into account portfolio and exchange rate effects, sales in the first quarter were up 1.5 % to € 776.9 million…
The 4th World Cocoa Conference held in Berlin in a way completely different to those before. Instead of letting all stakeholders telling the same story over and over again, which quite a bit happened for the first one and a half days of the for day event, the organizers let the 1.500 participants work together…