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| Process for Producing Infant Food Products Flexnews asceptic process for producing a range of infant food products comprises at least two steps, wherein, in a first stage, vegetables are cooked and meat or fish is cooked separately from the vegetables to provide pre-cooked ingredients, and in a second stage, the pre-cooked ingredients are mixed and submitted to UHT processing at a temperature of about 130 °C to 140 °C for a time of about 30 seconds to about 240 seconds to sterilize the product and filled aseptically into plastics containers. |
| Indonesian Food Processing Ingredients Sector 2009 Flexnews 1 - The Indonesian food processing industry is predicted to grow and produce mass food product to cater for all levels of consumers with taste for Asian product. The opportunity for imported food ingredients is wider for such ingredients that are used to produce staple food and snacks. |
| Kerry Posts Preliminary Statement of Results for Year Ending 31 December 2008 Flexnews |
| Senomyx Announces Q4 and Year-End 2008 Financial Results Flexnews enomyx ended 2008 with more than $40 million in cash, cash equivalents, and investments available-for-sale and no debt. |
| EFSA Adopts Opinion on Two Ingredients Commonly Used in Some Energy Drinks Flexnews uary 2009 - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has adopted a scientific opinion on two ingredients commonly used in so-called energy drinks. Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA's Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (ANS) concluded that exposure to taurine and d-glucuronolactone through regular consumption of energy drinks was not of safety concern. |
| WILD Flavors Provides Significant Capital Investment in Sunwin International Flexnews r, KY and Qufu, China (February 11, 2009) †WILD Flavors, Inc. (WILD Flavors) - one of the largest, privately-owned suppliers of natural and health-enhancing ingredients, flavors, colors, and innovative product concepts to the food and beverage industry, and Sunwin International Neutraceuticals, Inc. (Sunwin International) (OTCBB: SUWN) - a worldwide supplier of all-natural, zero-calorie stevia, have finalized an agreement cementing a partnership to sell, market, and distribute Sunwin International stevia extracts as well as formulate great-tasting, proprietary, natural sweetening blends for food and beverage products. |
| Senomyx Announces Initiation of Development Activities for Bitter Blockers Flexnews go, Feb 9 - Senomyx, Inc., a leading company focused on using proprietary technologies to discover and develop novel flavor ingredients for the food, beverage, and ingredient supply industries, announced today that it has initiated development activities for S0812 and additional new bitter blockers. |
| Danisco and Mingtai Form Strategic Partnership Flexnews 2009 - The world leader in food ingredients, Danisco, has formed a strategic partnership with the second largest microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) manufacturer in the world, Mingtai in Taiwan. |
| Packaged Coffee Drink Flexnews ide a packaged coffee beverage, which contains chlorogenic acids at high concentration, has good flavor and taste, and is suppressed in the occurrence of sediment during long-term storage. A packaged coffee beverage subjected to heat sterilization treatment, the beverage comprising (A) monocaffeoylquinic acid, (B) feruloylquinic acid and (C) dicaffeoylquinic acid, wherein (a) a total content of the ingredients (A), (B) and (C) contained in dissolved states in the beverage is from 0.14 to 4% by weight based on the beverage, and the beverage comprises (b) 80% by weight or more of water, (c) magnesium and sodium at a Mg/Na weight ratio of from 0.04 to 1, (d) a coffee extract obtained from roasted coffee beans having an L value of form 16 to 25, and (e) from 0.0024 to 0.0122% by weight of brown color in terms of Food Yellow No. 4. |
| European Commission Acts Against Italy on Food Ingredient Labelling Flexnews ary 2009 - The European Commission decided today to send a reasoned opinion to Italy for failure to notify national implementing measures as required by Directive 2007/68/EC (food ingredients). |
| Olam Acquires Argentina's Leading Peanut Shelling and Blanching Company Industrias Martin Cubero for USD 7 Mln Flexnews re, February 2, 2009 †Olam International, a leading global integrated supply chain manager of agricultural products and food ingredients, today announced that its subsidiary Olam Argentina has acquired a leading peanut shelling and blanching company Industria Martin Cubero (“IMC”) for a total consideration of about US$7.0 million. |
| Hershey, ConAgra Not Hit by Peanut Butter Recall Flexnews k, Jan 19 - Lance Inc, Tasty Baking Co , Hershey Co and ConAgra Foods said their products with peanut-butter or peanut-based ingredients are not impacted by the federal government's investigation into an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning. |
| Modified Plant Gums for Preparations of Active Ingredients Flexnews sent invention relates to compositions containing (fat-soluble) active ingredients and/or colorants in a matrix based on modified plant gums, i.e. plant gums that have been submitted to hydrolysis to degrade either the protein portion and/or where appropriate, the polysaccharide, and to a process for preparing these compositions as well as to modified plant gums, whose protein part is hydrolysed up to a degree of about 30%, preferably to a degree of from about 0.05 to about 30%, and/or whose polysaccharide part is hydrolysed up to a degree of about 50%, a process for the manufacture thereof and such modified plant gums themselves. The present invention further relates to the use of the compositions of this invention for the enrichment, fortification and/or for the coloration of food, beverages, animal feed, cosmetics and pharmaceutical compositions and to such food, beverages, animal feed, cosmetics and pharmaceutical compositions themselves. |
| Beverage Additive and Method of Making the Same Flexnews embodiment, the present invention comprises a food additive for beverages, specifically suited as an additive for coffee or other coffee beverages that reduces the effects of the acidic beverage on a human's digestive system. In one embodiment, a form of DGL and other all-natural components reduce the effects of the acidity of coffee without negatively affecting the flavor. In other embodiments, the food additive includes nutritional supplements including vitamins and minerals and other ingredients to transform coffee into a functional beverage. |
| Overview of Poland's Booming Food Processing Sector Flexnews The food processing and catering industries in Poland are increasingly interested in importing processed fruits and vegetables and baking ingredients such as baking mixes and fats. There are over 33,000 food processing companies in Poland and the number grows each year; consumers have larger disposable incomes and are interested in quality products, so food manufacturing continues to enjoy a boom. |
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