RiceBran Technologies, Narula Group enter supply partnership and joint venture for organic ingredients including rice bran, jasmine rice bran, chia, kale and coconut products
February 17, 2016
RiceBran Technologies, a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, announced that the company entered into an exclusive strategic supply agreement for organic rice bran and a LLC Agreement for the formation of a jointly owned sales and marketing entity with the Narula Group, based in Bangkok, Thailand.
The rules for maintaining kosher, halal, and other religious diets can be dizzying but intermediary organizations are helping processors answer to that “higher authority”
In 2013, Natural Food Certifiers Inc. (NFC), a kosher/natural/organic product certification program, inaugurated its GMO (genetically modified organisms) product verification program, called “GMO Guard.”
Organic foods are non-GMO, but not all non-GMO foods are organic, say natural food trade groups
February 8, 2016
This is taking place in both the retail market and in foodservice. Driving the market is an expanding consumer desire to have healthier foods with fewer added ingredients or any aspects that are not "natural."
Citrus fiber supplier Fiberstar wins innovation award at Food Ingredients Europe
December 17, 2015
This award emphasizes Fiberstar’s leadership in providing the global marketplace a natural solution to replace added pectin within bakery and confectionery fillings, spreads and fruit preparations for yogurts.
Overcoming technical culinary challenges of preserving food quality gets a leg up from a unique source
November 17, 2015
Americans invented, and once even embraced, those cardboard-like frozen TV dinners back in the 1950s, but today’s consumers won’t tolerate anything but the freshest tasting foods.
Demand for cage-free and organic eggs spurs segment growth
October 15, 2015
Consumers in the U.S. and around the world are showing increased concern about how their food products are sourced including whether vegetable and grain products are free of pesticides and/or made grown without the use of genetic modifications; and if non-genetically modified ingredients are being included in the feed of the poultry and livestock from which their animal foods are derived. These concerned consumers also want to know that the animals were raised and slaughtered under humane conditions.