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Puratos and BCD Bioscience share a mission to close the global fibre gap. Pic: GettyImages/BDLM

Scientist-led start-up nabs top spot of Puratos’ Innovation Challenge with common goal to close the fibre gap

California-based BCD Bioscience was crowned the winner of the challenge with its first product – a barley beta-glucan that improves glycaemic response and the associated cardiometabolic effects – that is poised to revolutionise the bakery sector.

PepsiCo entered the Romanian market in 2004. Pic: GettyImages/omersukrugoksu

PepsiCo ramps up snacks capacity in Romania

PepsiCo is investing another $100m – on top of the $320m over the past decade – into Romania, to double the production capacity of its Popești-Leordeni snack plant.

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Highly active premium dry yeast varieties transform bakery production

Global yeast manufacturer, Angel Yeast, seeks to advance the bakery industry with its high-quality, advantageous and user-friendly answer to many of today’s baking challenges.

Biden administration to explore voluntary targets for added sugar, develop front-of-pack nutrition labeling system

The Biden administration is exploring steps the federal government could take to reduce intake of added sugars “such as developing targets for categories of foods, similar to the voluntary targets FDA developed for sodium,” as part of a National Strategy...

The founding members of the Clean Oil Crew. Pic: Clean Oil Crew

Clean Oil Crew enlists new members, ramps up message that its ‘cool to be clean’

In March, Rind Snacks, LesserEvil, Primal Kitchen, A Dozen Cousins and Cappello’s formed the coalition to promote cleaner, more sustainable cooking oils to empower consumers to make better-for-you choices. The collaboration recently enlisted Brad’s Plant...

Spent grain is used by manufacturers in a host of sweet and savoury applications. Image: Getty/Lumase

Don’t fear consumer neophobia when designing upcycled food products, experts stress

Food manufacturers should be bolder and braver about using ingredients from new side-streams and by-products, FoodNavigator’s Climate Smart Food has heard.

White beetle inspired natural pigment offers replacement for titanium dioxide

Cambridge-based biotech start-up, Impossible Materials, has developed a sustainable cellulose-derived white pigment to replace “unsafe” titanium dioxide (TiO2) across food and pharma industries.