Consumer & Food Industry General

21/12/10: US: Food Channel predicts 2011 food trends

21/12/10: Leatherhead Food RA’s top food and drink trends for 2011

10/12/10: Food trends predicted and realised (from The Hartman Group)

10/12/10: Top Flavour Trends for 2011 (from RTS Resources)

03/12/10: Top food trends for 2011 (from RTS Resources)

19/11/10: Unilever unveils ambitious long-term sustainability programme

12/11/10: Innova lists its ten most important food trends for 2011 

12/11/10: San Francisco bans the McDonald's Happy Meal

05/11/10: Mintel highlights consumer trends for 2011

05/11/10: Mintel reveals consumer packaged goods trends for 2011

05/11/10: Are we having another food crisis?

22/10/10: No going back to old spending ways for SA consumers

15/10/10: UK: Mince, tea, white bread mark Britain's unsophisticated shopping basket 

01/10/10: Six 'mega-trends' to drive new food product development (from the IFT)

17/09/10: Choose your trend carefully: big but with no growth potential vs small with high growth potential

03/09/10: 2010 Trends from Innova (posters from IUFoST 2010)

09/07/10: Consumer perceptions of food technology

09/07/10: Bringing "real food" values back to processed food

09/07/10: The strength of private labels foods in SA

25/06/10: The changes facing fast food

25/06/10: Foodie media explosion: which came first, the supply or the demand?

18/06/10: Mintel: Natural and clean-label trend still driving NPD

21/05/10: UK: Animal welfare tops Britain's food concerns

30/04/10: SA: No-name goods enjoy continuing sales rise

09/04/10: The problems of imposing a tax on junk food

26/03/10: Where organic ends and natural begins

26/03/10: SA: Seismic shifts in consumer shopping habits

12/03/10: Research investigates what consumers see as 'natural'

26/02/10: Successful innovation requires three critical factors

26/02/10: US: Consumer “new frugality” may be an enduring feature of post-recession economy

26/02/10: UK: Fairtrade is no marketing gimmick for big brands

29/01/10: Mintel: US food and drink product launches plummet in 2009

22/01/10: Datamonitor's 2010 trend forecast

15/01/10: Big Ideas and Things We Like (Plus Bacon)

15/01/10:  US: For some, ‘Kosher’ food equals 'Pure' food

08/01/10: The new SHEconomy ...

08/01/10: State of the food & beverage industry

08/01/10: Reading the tea leaves for 2010

08/01/10: UK: 2030 Trends: intelligent ovens, eat at home and grow your own

08/01/10: 100 things to watch in 2010

19/12/09: Mintel predicts global consumer trends for 2010

19/12/09: Leatherhead: Food and drink trends for 2010

19/12/09: “A New Frugality?” Consumption Ain’t Dead Yet

23/11/09: Food prices face a welcome perfect storm

23/11/09: Reflections on food

23/11/09: Mintel predicts 2010's trendy flavours

23/11/09: US: Food and beverage industry trends to watch in 2010

Health, Nutrition and Functional Foods

03/12/10: Yoghurt and the functional food revolution

26/11/10: Health becomes the new morality

19/11/10: No change after three decades of dietary advice

12/11/10: Antioxidants will be replaced by 'polyphenols'

12/11/10: The big obesity issue is in "ultra-processing" 

22/10/10: Probiotic drinks do not aid health, EU says

01/10/10: US: Michelle Obama's healthy eating? Not on America's menu

01/10/10: Innova: Heart health product innovation continuing unabated

24/09/10: Snake oil in the supermarket

06/09/10: Understanding obesity: beyond teaching, tinkering & blaming 

30/07/10: Feeding the Great Wellness Transformation

23/07/10: Functional foods at a crossroads

09/07/10: The quest for a radical new world for antioxidants

02/07/10: Shaping how Americans eat: the debate rages

25/06/10: Heart health product innovation continuing unabated

18/06/10: Fishy claims for fish oil

18/06/10: Omega-3 lesson: Not so much brain boost as fishy research

11/06/10: Soymilk and lessons for new ingredients

04/06/10: Sports nutrition market driven by non-sporty consumers

28/05/10: Omega-3: Fishy claims for fish oil

21/05/10: The beauty from within market

23/04/10: Innova: Fibre continues to make an impact

23/04/10: Innova: Inherent nutrition vs fortified foods

23/04/10: US: Low-sodium product launches soar – but consumers go for taste

16/04/10: Britons eating fewer vegetables

09/04/10: Five-day-will not protect you from cancer

02/04/10: UK: FSA's new recommendations on cutting fat and sugar

05/03/10: Egg is the new superfood

05/03/10: Metabolic syndrome: Have we got it profoundly misunderstood?

05/03/10: FDA's flurry of warning letters ends an era of audacious health-food claims

19/02/10: Food nutrition labels fail to impress European consumers

12/12/10: UK: Decade of spending on health messages 'has had little effect'

12/02/10: Alternative medicine and health remedies grow apace in SA

15/01/10: New York seeks national effort to curtail salt use  

15/01/10: The 10 Key Trends in Food, Nutrition & Health for 2010

18/12/09: Health claim scepticism impacts functional spreads market

27/11/09: US: The next wave: wellness food trends for 2010

Product Development: Food

21/12/10: Trends in the SA snack market: assessing the top three categories

10/12/10: Yoghurt brings new thinking to dairy aisle

26/11/10: Natural and healthy confectionery set to stay, says Kerry

12/11/10: Chocolate: Worth its weight in gold?

01/10/10: Innova: Healthy growth in wholegrains

24/09/10: US: Meat farmers brace for limits on antibiotics

03/09/10: Crisps - a very big British habit  

03/09/10: UK: Mince most popular cut of meat

20/08/10: The cutting edge of meat substitute innovation

09/07/10: Free range eggs hitting the mainstream

18/06/10: Developing breakfast cereals in an era of consumer mistrust

28/05/10: Sweets & Snacks: Hottest new products and explores trends for 2010

30/04/10: UK: Steaming sales of hot tinned meat and baked beans

16/04/10: Consumers regard sweeteners with suspicion

16/04/10: Oatmeal, a sweet trend for diners and restaurant profits

16/04/10: General Mills joins the salt-slashing trend

09/04/10: The fine dining trends inspiring packaged food innovation

02/04/10: Innova: Global surge in gluten-free new product activity

02/04/10: The snacking craze

26/03/10: Playing the healthy snack-food game

26/02/10: Innova Market Insights: Cereal market shows emphasis on premium adult products

19/02/10: Butchers are suddenly the rock stars of the culinary world

19/02/10: Marketers cooking up plans to reduce salt use

19/02/10: Innova: Global food industry embracing low sodium platform

12/02/10: Fresh produce innovation winners - Fruit Logistica expo, Berlin

05/02/10: Winning confectionery products from ISM 2010

05/02/10: UK: Kellogg's to cut the salt in its cereals by a third

29/01/10: Brits bowled over by breakfast cereals

29/01/10: British pie eating at 30-year high

29/01/10: Yoghurt: the US product of the decade

08/01/10: Tea shortage to widen as rising demand exceeds supply

08/01/10: Confectioners to adjust to soaring cocoa prices

08/01/10: Chocoholics unite as chocolate sales worldwide defy recession

08/01/10: UK: Spuds back big on consumers' menus

18/12/09: Bacon, sardines are among top food trends for 2010, ad agency says

Product Development: Beverage

21/12/10: Bottled water industry prepares for a global water fight

26/11/10: UK: Sherry makes a come back

19/11/10: FDA cracks down on alcoholic energy drinks

20/08/10: Energy drinks jolt but stall in attracting new customers

20/08/10: SA: Cider enjoys year on year growth

06/08/10: Re-thinking chocolate milk

18/06/10: UK: Turning humble H2O into a premium product

18/06/10: US: Hold the papaya juice and bring on the Pepsi

04/06/10: Natural trumps health claims in adult soft drinks NPDs, Mintel analyst

16/04/10: EU: Nespresso steams ahead with brilliant European growth

02/04/10: US: Sports drinks suffer sales volume slump

26/03/10: UK: Coffee sales full of beans

12/03/10: Coconut waters enjoy soaring sales

12/03/10: Innocent Drinks: Economic downturn exposes flaws and strengths

05/02/10: US: Coke, Pepsi battle over bottled water

29/01/10: Pouches to double beverage market share

22/01/10: Beverage innovation: looking back, looking ahead

08/01/10: The best in beverages, 2009

18/12/09: Wine trends of the Noughties

04/12/09: Top 10 beverage flavour trend predictions

 Food Science, Flavours & Ingredients

26/11/10: Natural colours on the rise, but synthetics not dead yet

22/10/10: Prediction that polyols could soon outsell artificial sweeteners

08/10/10: Is luo han guo the next hot natural sweetener after stevia?

17/09/10: A new name for HFCS mooted

03/09/10: Reducing sodium teaspoon by teaspoon

13/08/10: Herbs & spices as salt/preservative alternatives

06/08/10: What irony! It is technology that makes "natural" food

30/07/10: The rising popularity of pea protein

02/07/10: Stevia has potential as sweetener; needs work

18/06/10: Developments in clean label ingredients

11/06/10: Milk: processed to death?

11/06/10: Death knell of the "Intel Inside" dream

04/06/10: Nanotechnology: The coolness of tiny things

04/06/10: The taste of tiny: Putting nanofoods on the menu

04/06/10: US: High fructose corn syrup sales down 11%

28/05/10: Flavour torque: the rise of adrenaline cuisine

30/04/10: Stevia revolution in EU beverage market still a long way off

02/04/10: The death of high fructose corn syrup

26/03/10: PepsiCo trials designer salt

12/03/10: Munchers inspire innovation in confectionery flavouring

12/02/10: The bitter battle over salt science

12/02/10: The absolution of MSG?

05/02/10: The competition to make the most natural fake sugar

22/01/10: Functional products showcased at Fi Europe 2009

Marketing & NPD

03/12/10: Smart thinking finds smarter ways to take health to market 

03/12/10: Why innovations in food and health usually come from small start-ups

19/11/10: Communicating sustainability to consumers

12/11/10: The customer is always victorious

05/11/10: The truth about men, women and food

05/11/10: Why the hacktivists are winning

08/10/10: US: Seven marketing claims that have taken heat

09/07/10: Men eat meat, women eat chocolate: How food gets gendered

25/06/10: Choose evolution not revolution for NPD

30/04/10: Voicing and marketing your ethical stance

26/03/10: Diet Coke or Coke Zero? Food marketing by gender

26/03/10: Marketers want to get inside your brain. Literally.

05/02/10: Marketing to Millenials (those born 1980-2000)

Food & Beverage Packaging

15/10/10: Canada declares BPA to be toxic

08/10/10: Bisphenol A on the brink?

13/08/10: Bisphenol A: Sense and Sensationalism

25/06/10: Future trends for active and intelligent packaging

28/05/10: All the AmeriStar winners for 2009/2010

07/05/10: Insights into the BPA debate

30/04/10: Packaging is leading the ‘green’ agenda for consumers

09/04/10: BPA: The poison in the plastic that surrounds us

19/02/10: PLA and bioplastics – for and against

12/02/10: US: Beverage industry will make calories more clear and useable for consumers

05:02/10: SA's wine bottles get lighter and greener

18/12/09: Packaging trends for a new year 

Sustainability & The Future of Food

19/11/10: Farming out Africa: a pragmatic take on 'neocolonialism'

05/11/10: Biofuels are back. This time they might even work

15/10/10: SABMiller creates vision of brewing in 2030

08/10/10: Pleasure trumps green in the chip world

03/09/10: Why our agricultural empire will fall

20/08/10: Feeding the world in the next 40 years

30/07/10: Ultra Rice - food innovation to beat global malnutrition

23/07/10: Role of food science and technology in meeting future needs

23/07/10: Hedge funds hungry for African food production

09/07/10: Global hunger shows no sign of declining

02/07/10: The campaign against palm oil

02/07/10: Make it easy for consumers to make sustainable choices

28/05/10: A SPECIAL report on water from The Economist

28/05/10: Food production: a new look at old ways

16/04/10: Developing a ‘water battery’ for trees

02/04/10: Mutant crops could radically boost food production

26/03/10: Global hunt for phosphates is on

26/03/10: The Environmental and Social Impact of the 'Livestock Revolution'

26/03/10: A delightful look at how consumers understand sustainability

12/03/10: How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab

05/03/10: The spread of GM crops: developing world embraces a controversial technology

05/03/10: Attack of the really quite likeable GM tomatoes

19/02/10: A menu for feeding nine billion

12/02/10: India's new delicacy: a 45-day-old tomato

05/02/10: Time to chuck out 'sell by' dates?

15/01/10: The end of consumerism: Our way of life is 'not viable'

08/01/10: GM wheat is on its way