Hygienic Pumps for Favorite Fruits: A Clean Affair

Progressive cavity pumps are also used for the precise dosing of dough and food additives.

Grains in Weaning Foods

Malnutrition is the most common problem in the developing countries and the condition is particularly serious among infants.

Food Safety Helpline, Everything you need to know about Food Safety & FSSAI Compliance

One-stop solution for understanding and implementing the requirements of FSSAI & Food Safety Standards Act

Freedom - Healthy Cooking Oils

Mr. P Chandrashekhar Reddy, Vice President Sales & Marketing at Gemini Edibles & Fats has an exposure of over 25 years in various edible oil organisations. In this interview Mr. Reddy shares his direct insights as well as apprehensions on how to promote a launch and understand the business dynamics. His focus and aggressive brand building approach has created a robust network; his strategy has succeeded in positioning Sunflower oil as a No.1 Brand.

Dragon Fruit: A ‘Crazy' Seeming Fruit Has A Powerhouse Of Uses

There’s nothing to laugh at with this insane fruit but the real fact is many are getting crazy about dragon fruit. And its quick popularity has been making some producer countries run like mad in catching up for more supply for more demands in the world market. The fruit gives the reminiscence of watermelon, kiwi, and pear or a combination of them packed with more nutrients and medicinals more than one can imagine. They call this fruit a ‘crazy’ one perhaps due to its flower that resembles a flame in explosion. Out of these flamelike flowers come some short-lived fruits appearing like brilliant pink rosebuds. This novelty fruit is now becoming popular in recent season.

New World-Class Potato Processing Line for Bem Brasil

Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, announces they are teaming up with Bem Brasil, the largest potato processor in Brazil, to add a new state-of-the-art potato strip processing line to Bem’s Perdizes facility. This multimillion dollar purchase includes six VERYX® digital sorters, an ADR EXOS® automatic defect removal system, three Sliver Sizer Removers and 57 Iso-Flo® vibratory conveyors on a line designed to process 30 metric tons of frozen french fries per hour. Bem chose to partner with Key to maximize food safety and consistently meet final product quality specifications while improving operating efficiencies and increasing yield.

Herbal Tea: A Miraculous Drink

INTRODUCTION Around the globe, Tea is the most widely consumed drink after water and herbal teas is proven to be one of the healthiest beverages loaded with antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins.

Packaging of Frozen Food

INTRODUCTION Freezing food is one of the oldest and the most convenient method of preserving food for longer period of time. It keeps the color, taste and texture intact, if preserved at correct temperature.

Mono Material Demand in Food Packaging

Global flexible packaging and lidding films supplier KM Packaging is meeting the demand for mono-material food packaging with mono polymer structure lidding films.

Dairy: A New Era of Innovation

Although most countries produce milk products, the structure of the dairy industry differs across the globe. Many major dairy-producing countries consume most of their output internally, while others (for example New Zealand) export a large percentage of their production. Local consumption is often in the form of liquid milk, while the bulk of international trade is in processed dairy products such as milk powder.

Consumer preferences shaping the post-pandemic bakery industry

Food Marketing & Technology Magazine attended a recent webinar hosted by the Mintel’s on “Consumer trends shaping India’s biscuits and cookies category”. The webinar talked about the changes in the Bakery Industry post -pandemic. Food & Drink Analyst Rushikesh Aravkar assessed the current changes in the consumer demand graph and also how it is going to open new opportunities in the food industry.

Cargill

Mr. Piyush Pattnaik, Managing Director at Cargill Oils, talks about his new relaunch in the bakery industry and how it will benefit the bakery industry and also home bakers. He has always worked for the benefit for consumers and towards making their experience memorable. The relaunch was initiated to bring multispeciality benefits i.e to have one product with multiple usage.

Freezing Frozen Foods

The most easiest, quickest and convinient method to preserving food is Freezing.

Salt Content In Indian Packaged Foods

Salt, or Sodium Chloride (NaCl), provides one of the five basic tastes, and one that consumers love saltiness and salt contributes both flavour and functionality in a wide range of applications.

Food Additives A Review..!

Food Additive means any substance not normally consumed as a food by itself and not normally used as a typical ingredient of the food,whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological purpose.

Minimising Unintentionally added Contaminants in Milk by Good Practices @ Dairy Farm

With approximately 1 lakh crore INR, India is all set to become a giant market on the global dairy map. In 2018 India produced approx 22 percent of global dairy volume which indicates the importance of India in the dairy segment.

Ingredion Introduces Cold Swelling Starches for Indulgent Instant Bakery Fillings

Ingredion EMEA has added three new cold swelling modified potato starches to its highly functional starch portfolio.

Food Recalls

Consumer brands gain confidence and trust from consumers with the delivery of safe, correctly labelled and good quality food products. Food processors constantly thrive to ensure that food safety and quality is maintained through all the phases of processing which initiates from responsible sourcing, handling and storage of raw materials, processing of the food and ends until the food product is delivered to the consumer and is safe for consumption as well as storage under the recommended conditions.

GI tag status of Agro-horticulture Produces of North East India

North Eastern Region of India is the hub of organic and exotic agro horticultural produces.

Emerging Trends and Responsibilities of Food Product Developers during Pandemic

The COVID pandemic has delivered the biggest and broadest value chain shock in recent memory. It is clear that the lockdown has had a profound impact on how people live.

Convenient Packaging

A promising channel to functionalize Nutrition Security

Cereal Processing

Cereal processing is a multiplex operation containing series of unit operations to convert cereals into easily digestible and consumable products such as flour, dhal, grits, or any further processed products.

Coronavirus Pushes The Case For Plant-Based Foods

Consumer interest in plant-based meat has been steadily rising over the past few years. This is because people are increasingly health and environment conscious. We hear the terms veganism, vegetarianism, and flexitarian much more today than we did say ten years ago. However, the rise of the plant-based foods industry has been very gradual and there aren’t too many takers for the product, but the current coronavirus pandemic has caused a clear shift in consumer preferences.

Post Pandemic Lockdown - Outlook For Packaged Food And Beverage Industry

New outlook and pivot for the packaged food & beverage industry: The two months plus Covid Pandemic Lockdown period is a Disruptor for many industries including the Indian packaged Food and Beverage Industry. Due to the Covid Lockdown, changes in the Indian Consumers habits and their behaviour will result in the changes in demand and needs of the Indian Consumers are going to change in comparison to the pre-Covid Lockdown period. The changes will dictate the new norm and outlook for the post-Covid Lockdown Decade for the Indian packaged Food and Beverage Industry in the following ways:

“Innovation is the founding pillar for the brand ASEPTO”

With the motto of ‘Freshness Preserved’, ASEPTO – from the house of Uflex Ltd. becomes India’s first aseptic liquid packaging material brand with a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in the industrial hub of Sanand in Gujarat. FMT recently spoke with Ashwani Sharma, President & CEO at UFLEX Group to gain his perspective on aseptic liquid beverage packaging and the road ahead.

Why Single Origin Cocoa Ingredients are on the Rise

The trend for single-origin cocoa ingredients is going strong as consumers continue to satisfy their sweet tooth but look more closely at how and where cocoa is sourced. Industry figures suggest there has been a 25% increase in chocolate launches with a single origin claim since 2015, presenting a huge opportunity for cocoa suppliers and chocolate manufacturers.

The “New Normal” for Food Processing Industry

INTRODUCTION Year 2020 started with knowing, understanding and familiarization of new vocabulary of words like “Pandemic”, “Quarantine”, “lockdown” and so on. Currently we are constantly bombarded with these words since more than Four months. For the first time in this generation we are witnessing the “irreversible” and “unavoidable” impact of COVID 19.

Spices from North East for Commercial Exploitation

INTRODUCTION North Eastern Region (NER) of India has an ocean of opportunity, resources and unexplored potential when it comes to agriculture & horticulture. Region is blessed with several comparative advantages like fertile soils, favorable climatic conditions, rich biodiversity, forest wealth, educated manpower as well as a geographically strategic location acting as a gateway to the South-East Asian countries. It is the hub of organic & exotic produces, spices & herbs & is a basket full of opportunities for the unusual.

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Food Safety Culture and its Elements

INTRODUCTION A new buzz word “food safety culture” has become very popular in food processing industries lately. Along with the concepts of food safety compliance and conformance, the most discussed concept in food processing industry now a days is “food safety culture”. One of the very important reasons for it is introduction of the concept of food safety culture as part of the requirements of the standards like BRC, SQF and other GFSI certification schemes. So when organizations start developing food safety culture, they go with developing documentations like SOP, checklists and records for the same.