Australian better-for-you food and beverage company Soulfresh is leading the way in the evolution of plant-based meats, with the launch of plant-powered ready-to-eat convenience meals and a BBQ classics range which tastes and looks like meat.
The Australia grape export season is coming to a close and they have already hit the half billion AUD mark, this makes the grape industry the first fresh fruit industry to do this in Australia.
For its latest launch, Nespresso has taken inspiration from some of the world’s first coffee houses to develop two special Limited Edition coffees with Café Istanbul and Caffè Venezia available in both Vertuo and Original Line capsules from 1st July.
One of Australia's largest producers of sweet corn and beans has reduced plastic packaging on its produce by 80%, saving hundreds of thousands of disposable plastic trays from entering Australian rubbish heaps each month.
The humble walnut has been officially recognised as heart-healthy following research undertaken at the University of Wollongong, which has shown that nut consumption is associated with improvements in heart health measures such as blood cholesterol.
Last month, at the international horticulture trade show, Macfrut in Italy, an interesting new product was launched; A high-tech in-store ripeness checker for fruit.
There have been multiple research studies that link ultra processed food and obesity, but scientists have also found a link between the same type of food and diseases and diseases that cause death, in two studies that have been published recently.
Australia’s Coca-Cola Amatil is set to sell its SPC fruit and vegetable processing business to Shepparton Partners Collective and its group of companies for A$40m ($27.9m).
Eating a diet with high omega 6 in the lead up to pregnancy, could play a role in a lower percentage of male babies being conceived, according to a new study led by a Griffith University researcher.
