Food & Drink Europereport that Lallemand Health Ingredients (LHI) have anounced the launch of a chewy fruit containing PACran cranberry powder eith the claim that “One daily ‘PACran softchew’ is recommended by the company to support urinary tract health”
This appears to be a growing tend – Euromonitor value the functional and healthy confectionery market at $7.4bn (€5bn) in 2005 representing 24 per cent of the functional food market.
There are many articles at the moment focusing on the rising agricultural and food prices around the world. This one from from Business 247 News is interesting that even the title breaks the link between food price rises and biofuels!
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The article also quotes the real concerns of the FAP regarding the impact on the poor who mainly use unprocessed products. The impact in the more sophisticated markets is less because of the wealth of the consumer and the smaller part of the food price that is raw materials.
Maybe a worrying point is that the FAO notes that even with an agricultural change the low level of stocks will delay the reduction in prices.
Trends in the food and beverage sector are always useful information to bear in mind while thinking about new markets for your products.
Having just been in the Western Cape and seen how the new vineyards market themselves as small, exclusive and expensive this trend in the beer market in the US makes sense, especially because commercial beer is so bland.
What is interesting is that the word CRAFT is used which is often used to mean a tradition or homemade product, but these beers are technologically equivalent to large scale industrial beers.
from Beverage Daily
This article seems to indicate that there is now sufficient proof to accept that organic food are analytically more nutritional than non organic food especially in the antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. However, now comes the argument that variety, handling and cooking could eliminate these differences.
Do not these kid of differences also apply to non organic fruit and vegetables, where we worry little about it? – misguidedly I believe, because of a lack of information.
What is interesting is a researcher’s more generay statement
“What I’d like to tell everyone is to grow food when you can, support local farm systems when you can, try to buy organic and, whatever you do, buy fresh and cook it yourself.”
from: African Agriculture Blog
Rwanda’s flower growing industry is expected to expand after the successful training of 20 flower farmers, said Vincent Karega, the Minister of State in charge of Industry and Investment Promotion.
Karega said that the move to train farmers in flower production was part of the campaign to increase local production and add value to the flowers grown.
The training took place in Naivasha, Kenya, over three months and was funded by the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (Nuffic).
