Published: Oct 13, 2016

Expectations are high for Turkish dry fig producers as they yield the highest quality in recent years and demand increases from consumers in the Far East.

Published: Oct 12, 2016

A Melbourne inventor has spent the past 12 years creating a range of food substitutes with liquid potato after he figured out how to melt down the starchy food like cheese.

Published: Oct 11, 2016

Being a day length dependent crop, garlic can be grown in South Africa wherever and whenever onions are grown, although there is limited local production of about 2500 tonnes of fresh garlic per annum.

Published: Oct 11, 2016

Florette is launching two new products in their range of ready-to-eat salads.

Published: Sep 29, 2016

Last week Friday, 23 September, marked the 5th year that Italian grower and producer Mioorto, attended the Fresh Market event in Warsaw.

Published: Sep 28, 2016

Paul Watts, a scientist from the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, AFBI, has developed a purple potato using the chemical compound called anthocyanin, which is found in the blue of blueberries.

Published: Sep 28, 2016

Registering a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 16 per cent, the packaged food market in India is expected to have crossed $51.5 million (mn) mark in 2015 as against $25 million in 2010, noted a recent ASSOCHAM-TechSci Research joint study.

Published: Sep 27, 2016

As the leaves start to turn colors and the air becomes crisp, consumers welcome the first day of fall.

Published: Sep 26, 2016

“How do food producers stay relevant in this changing world?” That is the question sector economist, Rob Morren of ABN Amro, focused on during the MFC-Event in Gorinchem, the Netherlands.

Published: Sep 23, 2016

McDonald’s in Japan will launch their latest novelty menu item: seasonal chocolate pumpkin fries on September 28.

Published: Sep 23, 2016

Rwanda is set to build its first avocado processing factory in 2017, which will start processing avocado based products by 2019, according to the new Huye district plan fiscal year 2016/ 2017.

Published: Sep 21, 2016

Japanese lifestyle chain Mujirushi Ryohin is launching green-tea covered strawberries. The new candies are a variation on Mujirushi’s white chocolate-covered strawberries, its best-selling sweets.

Published: Sep 18, 2016

Italians like healthy new products, they say. But is that true? FreshPlaza talked to two foreign companies selling fruit and vegetable products at Sana in Bologna.

Published: Sep 13, 2016

Single mother Nimisha Raja, who launched Nim’s Fruit Crisps in 2012, is targeting new markets in the US, the Continent and Australia, and is developing new lines.

Published: Sep 13, 2016

Dollar scarcity, occasioned by the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) flexible exchange (forex) rate policy, may have saved the country about $45 million or N14.1 billion in French fries imports.

Published: Sep 12, 2016

Everybody knows that supermarkets can’t really sell a banana or an apple with a dent or a bruise.

Published: Sep 09, 2016

On Wednesday 7 September, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Taiwan reported that a random inspection of “instant” salads and cut fruit showed that 25 percent of products contained pathogenic bacteria exceeding allowable levels.

Published: Sep 07, 2016

Scientist at Bangor University in Wales, have made a discovery which could possibly have solved the global chocolate crisis caused by a cocoa shortage.

Published: Sep 05, 2016

Organic industry tomatoes are doing very well at the La Cesenate processing company.

Published: Sep 02, 2016

Norway’s Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, has expressed her admiration for Tomra Sorting Solutions’ purpose-built 12,600 sq m state-of-the art manufacturing and distribution facility after visiting it at the Prologis Park Bratislava in Senec, Slovakia.