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The Norwegian technology company Plaato, was founded to provide fermentation solutions to the home brewing market and is now becoming a leader in large-scale fermentation monitoring, looking to revolu ...
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Consumers are more likely to cut back on their restaurant visits instead of trading down to preserve their budgets, according to a report from AlixPartners. In April, prices for food away from home ro ...
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For Mexican chef Elena Reygadas, the journey to gastronomic success involved a lot of soul searching, hard lessons and the tireless quest for balance, both in her cooking and personal life. As she is ...
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Our highly anticipated inaugural trade show in Saudi Arabia, The Saudi Food Show, is set to make its mark as the world's biggest food event in the vibrant city of Riyadh. With the captivating theme of ...
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KABUL: Afghans are eyeing Middle Eastern markets to export the world’s most expensive and delicate spice, saffron, ahead of what is expected to be a bumper harvest season. Known as “red gold,” saffr ...
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JAKARTA: Indonesia is seeking easier access to Saudi Arabia for its food products, as the country hopes to tap into export opportunities. The Indonesian Food and Drug Agency held a high-level dialog ...
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Dairy plants around the world are facing new set of challenges as they grapple with rising raw milk costs and increasing pressure to reduce their carbon footprints as plant-based competitors try to dr ...
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SAO PAULO: During last year’s World Cup in Qatar, football fans worldwide could see the Argentinian squad drinking yerba mate, a herbal tea omnipresent in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Bra ...
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Global food and beverage company Nestlé announced today that it will pilot new Pléiades Neo satellites from Airbus for monitoring of its reforestation efforts, with very high-resolution images from th ...
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As food sovereignty becomes an increasingly urgent priority around the globe, the UAE is seeing an uptick in sustainable food production efforts. The UAE is aiming to become a global leader in susta ...
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ISRAEL – Steakholder Foods Ltd, an international deep-tech food company at the forefront of the cultivated meat industry has unveiled its successful bioprint to produce the first ready-to-cook cultiva ...
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The US beef industry is creating an army of influencers and citizen activists to help amplify a message that will be key to its future success: that you shouldn’t be too worried about the growing atte ...
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To reach his farm, Mohammad Mohasin has an unusual commute. The 40-year-old either rows in a wooden canoe or swims to the field of crops — which is floating in a body of water in Barisal, a southern r ...
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What if we could end world hunger, pack more nutrition in every meal, develop infant formula that mimics the composition of human breast milk, and even treat chronic diseases with food, without placin ...
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The Gault&Millau UAE 2023 Gala and Guide Release took place on the evening of April 27 at Burj Al Arab Jumeirah. The exclusive event saw 200 of the UAE’s finest chefs, restaurateurs and industry lea ...
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Food companies are making lofty promises about lowering emissions by the end of the 2020s, and regenerative agriculture is touted as a solution to improving their carbon footprints. But many experts s ...
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The Gault&Millau 2023 Awards ceremony took place on the evening of April 27 at Burj Al Arab Jumeirah. An exclusive event that played host to 200 of the UAE’s very best chefs, restaurateurs and industr ...
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“For every person that has stopped ordering online, several others have started to do so,” according to Euromonitor International’s David Hedin, who spoke of the market research firm's new e-commerce ...
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Abu Dhabi’s first state-of-the-art plant-based meat production facility has been inaugurated in KEZAD. From May 1, the facility will start producing food products, which are 100 per cent free of genet ...
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Ukrainian lawmakers are working on a new programme for the dairy industry, which could ease tensions in the troubled dairy industry. Arsen Didur, chairman of the Ukrainian Dairy Union, told the loca ...
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The commitment will allow DAL Group to import 280,000MT of wheat annually, providing crucial food supply to millions of the urban population in Sudan. The deal will be the first investment by British ...
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PITTSBURGH — Even as consumers shifted buying behaviors because of higher costs, Kraft Heinz Co. managed to generate higher sales and profits in the first quarter while raising its earnings guidance f ...
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Seafood sales fell 3.8% last year to $16.3b from the previous year, as consumers shifted their shopping in response to rising inflation, but remained above pre-pandemic levels as consumers sought opti ...
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PHILIPPINE FOOD exporters generated $50.65 million worth of sales as exhibitors at the Gulfood 2023 food and beverage expo in Dubai, the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) export promotion arm s ...
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While the food system has always been a vital component of climate change, it’s largely been ignored in favor of attention to other sources, such as emissions from factories and vehicles. Until last y ...
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BERKELEY, Calif. — The first course was a celery root soup lush with whole milk. The last was a spice cake topped with maple cream cheese frosting, served with a side of ice cream. And then a latte wi ...
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The Italian government has given its support to a bill that would prohibit the sale of lab-grown meat and other synthetic foods, highlighting Italian food heritage as a leading cause. If the bill pa ...
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Pepsi, a brand of Purchase, N.Y.-based PepsiCo, unveiled a new logo and visual identity system, the first update of the iconic Pepsi globe logo in 14 years. Pepsi will roll out the new look in North A ...
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Fermentation is the opposite of a new technology; we’ve been using it to make food and drink products like beer and wine, yogurt, miso, and kimchi for thousands of years. But what’s very old is new ag ...
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So what items flew off the shelves last year when it came to drone delivery? According to Flytrex, a company specializing in backyard drone delivery, the most popular item ordered off restaurant men ...
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The AI-powered market intelligence platform designed for the food and beverage industry, is launching TasteGPT: its next evolution of generative AI solutions. While Tastewise already incorporates ge ...
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RIYADH — The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA) has revealed that the Saudi date exports recorded an increase by 5.4% in 2022, compared to 2021, exceeding SR1 billion and 280 millio ...
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Salmon cells brew in giant metal tanks at Wildtype, a start-up based in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. Over the next few months, those cells will grow, morph and eventually emerge as a pi ...
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Under the directives of Her Highness Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler o ...
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The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region is being hit by a worsening food security crisis due to high food price inflation and collapsing currencies, even as it celebrates the beginning of the M ...
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Oa sunny, 58-degree day in Delano, California, Zak Laffite walks through groves of trees where he grows a special kind of lemon, and then stops to explain how harvesting it works. “What we want is th ...
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Often overlooked despite being one of the most widely used ingredients in the industry, emulsifiers quietly work behind the scenes to give chocolate its sheen, bread a longer lifespan and ice cream it ...
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MANILA: The Philippines has identified healthy convenience food as a potential opportunity in the GCC market, officials told Arab News as a special trade mission ended its tour of the region on Saturd ...
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As the holy month of Ramadan is set to commence in less than a month, Rove Hotels will be giving away 1,000 meals to delivery drives across the city. The week prior to Ramadan, drivers that are cond ...
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PepsiCo has unveiled plans to pump $216 million into regenerative agriculture projects spanning 3 million acres of farmland in the US. The plan involves multi-year partnerships with Practical Farmers ...
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Sharjah: His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, visited the wheat farm in Maliha, Sharjah, today to attend the first phase of the harvest. ...
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Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, officially announced the ‘How to Reduce Food Waste Using Three Low-Cost Nudges – A Practical Guide for Canteens and Buffe ...
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Dubai, UAE: Hilton (NYSE: HLT), in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) West Asia, Winnow and Goumbook, has announced the launch of Green Ramadan, an initiative which will ...
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Carrefour has embraced home-grown produce to help drive down its prices for Ramadan. The retail giant has 6,000 products in its Ramadan range, many of which it says are discounted by up to 50 per ce ...
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Alex Zhou says that he understands what his customers want, and that their needs resonate with him, because he is one of them. And now the Chinese boss of America’s biggest Asian online marketplace ...
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The world’s largest meat processors, already using tech in areas like packing, are investing in ways to make their production more automated. One of the very biggest, Tyson Foods, has committed to ...
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The Middle Eastern Food and Beverage (F&B) industry is dynamic and constantly evolving, with new trends and developments emerging in response to consumer preferences, needs, and expectations, says Ren ...
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From a public health perspective, ‘ultra-processed food’ is a major concern. But stigmatising the term, instead of focusing on the benefits of opting for healthier alternatives, is not the answer, Foo ...
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The Women in F&B Power List 2023 is now in its fourth year. For 2023, we decided to do things a bit differently. Rather than running to 50 names and calling for nominations, this time, the Caterer Mid ...
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Using land for solar arrays or agriculture farms is often portrayed as a zero-sum game, but it doesn’t always need to be. Agrivoltaics is the technical term for using land for both solar energy and cr ...