Exploring Additive Options In Baking

Healthy lifestyles continue to drive free-from diets, creating ever greater demand for “cleaner” and healthier products, especially in segments such as gluten-free sweet bakery products, say Dr Galanakis, C.M. and Dr Y. Martin Lo, advisors from the Anti Additive Association. Food additives have been used for decades to perform specific…

Next-Gen Sweetener Shows 2020 Vision

Lampados’ constant mission to seek out innovations in flavour and functionality. By Noam Kaplan, CEO of Lampados Limited.   About two-thirds of consumers are now concerned about their sugar intake, according to multiple surveys, including a recent one by BuzzBack Market Research. In the BuzzBack poll, nearly all of the…

Yes, No, Maybe: The Question Of Plant Waters

As consumers seek healthier choices in their diets, the popularity of sugared, fizzy drinks has been on a steady decline, and plant waters have piqued public interest. By Grace Chew. Amid a shift towards healthy hydration, stealing consumers’ hearts is a new fad—plant waters, extracted from plant parts with substantial…

Helping Heart Health With A Weekly Meat-Free Day

As a result of an increased awareness of the benefits of adopting meat-free lifestyles, many people are looking for food options that allow them to reduce their meat consumption. Will your business be ready to offer clients such products? By Yock Chuan Yeo and George Jacobs from the Centre For…

Taking The Heat: Grease-Free Bearings In Baking

Subjecting bearings to high temperatures and high levels of humidity increases maintenance requirements and costs. Also, limitations of available grease technology do not permit an increase of oven temperature that would allow faster throughput – without additional planned downtime that might offset the benefits. However, a new breed of grease-free…

Seizing The Growth Opportunity In Non-Dairy Beverages

The rising acceptance and preference for plant-based beverages is a global consumer trend which is becoming more established in many parts of Asia, says Ashish Dahiya, cluster marketing, portfolio, & category management leader, Tetra Pak Processing Systems, South Asia, East Asia & Oceania.   Consumers today are increasingly demanding, and…

Charting The Food And Drinks Industry In 2017

Beneo Asia Pacific managing director Christian Philippsen brings us through what we can expect of Asia’s food industry in 2017, and highlights the major trends shaping the region’s food sector.
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