The holidays can be a time for indulging and, in some cases, overindulging. Alcoholic beverages, alone, can have as many as 600 calories per serving; one recent launch in the segment is a calorie-conscious, yet quite adult, beverage.
Premier Beverage Group founder and president Fouad Kallamni cited a Morgan Stanley industry report on strong, sustained growth in the energy drink market as reason for optimism in 2012.
Who is responsible for the problem? The solution? What role do food ingredients and food formulations play? Prepared Foods’ annual survey queries food product developers.
Researchers examined the effect of providing clear and visible caloric information about sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda, sport drinks, energy drinks and fruit juice at neighborhood stores.
The Food and Drug Administration is considering tightening restrictions for the levels of arsenic allowed in apple juice after consumer groups pushed the agency to crack down on the contaminant.
West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw wants federal regulators to take a tougher stance against the marketers of the Four Loko brand of alcoholic beverages.