Food and beverage ingredients: premium, natural, and clean label in high demand

Across the food and beverage industry, ingredient companies that provide premium, natural, and clean-label products are experiencing substantial growth. This is being driven by chefs, retailers, and consumers that continue to demand higher-quality, fresher, and better-for-you items. In this article, senior professionals in Harris Williams’s Consumer Group [1] – Tim Alexander, Brant Cash, Ryan Freeman […]

Researchers develop cells that produce their own growth factors to significantly lower cost of cultivating meat

Researchers develop cells that produce their own growth factors to significantly lower cost of cultivating meat

Scaling new heights: Industrializing cultivated meat production with advanced scaffolding solutions

In a series of articles for Food Engineering & Ingredients, Athanasios Garoufas will look at alternative proteins and the various technologies that enable the development and production of meat alternatives. Alt proteins include plant-based protein products, cellular agriculture (cultivated meat), mycoproteins, insect proteins and precision fermentation. In this article, the author looks at the difficulty […]

Seize the organic opportunity: a guide to certification success

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Sunflower extract fights fungi to keep blueberries fresh

Opening a clamshell of berries and seeing them coated in fuzzy mould is a downer. And it’s no small problem. Gray mould and other fungi, which cause fruit to rot, lead to significant economic losses and food waste. Now, researchers report in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry [1] that compounds from sunflower crop […]

Ice spray delivers cool method for killing pathogens

Campylobacter, a common bacteria found in poultry, presents a significant health issue. With over 246,000 human cases annually, it is the most frequently reported foodborne illness in the EU.

Enhancing food safety in the face of climate change

The impact of climate change on food production, distribution, and consumption has raised concerns about compromised food safety. Altered temperatures and humidity levels can create favourable conditions for the proliferation of pathogens or mycotoxins, rendering food unsuitable for human consumption or even hazardous. Addressing this intricate interplay between food safety and climate change necessitates comprehensive […]

Researchers exterminate food pathogen with blue light

Researcher have shown that blue light kills both dried cells and biofilms of the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, a frequent contaminant of food processing facilities. L. monocytogenes causes the infection listeriosis. The extermination of L. monocytogenes occurred quickest when cells or biofilms were placed on polystyrene. The research is published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology [1], […]