What a water-full world

In the crowded and rather lucrative bottled water market, standing out on supermarket shelves takes effort and ingenuity.

Base is back with pizza pack

Anchor Foods have release the Lion Pizza Base Mix – a complete all-in-one pizza base kit.

Thirst quenchingly green

Victorian-based Cool Change Natural Spring Water has launched Australia’s first spring water packaged in a bottle made from plants, as they seek to go green in an industry often criticised for its lack of sustainability.

High purity REB-A approved for use

FSANZ has given regulatory approval for steviol glycosides to be used as a food and beverage ingredient in both Australia and NZ.

CoOL on top

At the end of September this year a NZ parliamentary committee decided against supporting a call for mandatory country of origin labelling on food products.

Launching new fruit flavours

Blue Pacific and HortResearch have finalised their license agreement for the development and commercialisation of natural fruit flavours, and the first two products under their new hortRealfruit brand are being launched this week.

Set the juices loose

The “super fruit” juice trend has opened the door to new opportunities for sugar confectionery.

A healthy boost for beverages

Set to stay, the health and wellness trend is influencing many global new product launches and changing the priorities of beverage manufacturers in all corners of the globe.

Tamarind ingredient available

Ingredient Resources supplies Treattarome Tamarind 9860, a fruit-based ingredient with a spicy, nutty, chocolatey sweet taste.

Healthy Hopper bars