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Innovate UK launches competition to make food healthier
6 October 2015 | By Victoria White
The competition will fund up to £10 million in projects aimed at reducing sugar, salt and fat and increasing dietary fibre in food and drink...
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New public consultation on food advertising to children
30 September 2015 | By Victoria White
CAP’s decision to carry out a public consultation responds, in part, to changes in children’s media habits and evolving advertising techniques...
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Behavioural study shows spices and herbs can cut sodium by boosting flavour
24 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers taught adults to flavour their food with spices and herbs instead of salt and found that, by the end of the study, they were able to reduce sodium intake by an average of 956.8 mg/day...
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Salt of the Earth run successful trial to reduce sodium in canned tuna
10 August 2015 | By Nick Jackson, Digital Manager
Salt of the Earth Ltd. has announced a successful trial of its sodium reduction ingredient, Umami Essence, in canned tuna...
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Studies show Tate & Lyle’s Soda-Lo Salt Microspheres decrease sodium intake
16 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Two studies have shown that Tate & Lyle’s Soda-Lo ® Salt Microspheres could potentially decrease daily sodium intake by up to 9 percent...
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Nestlé USA commits to removing artificial flavours from six of its most popular pizza and snack brands in the US
2 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Nestlé USA has pledged to improve the ingredient quality and nutritional profile of some of its most popular frozen pizza and snack brands in the US...
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Healthy Snacks supplement 2015
23 April 2015 | By New Food magazine
In this Healthy Snacks supplement, Kellogg's Leonnard Ojwang discusses the development of healthy, nourishing snack foods, plus a look at how popping physics can help to reduce salt in snacks...
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Only one in a thousand Brits achieve the WHO’s recommended dietary goals for sodium and potassium
9 April 2015 | By Victoria White
New research suggests that only 0.3% of Americans and 0.1% of Brits achieve the WHO's recommended dietary goals for sodium and potassium...
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Salt Reduction: Challenges and opportunities for the food industry
20 October 2014 | By Food ingredients Global
Hi Europe 2014 is the leading platform to source salt reduction solutions...
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Sodium reduction in ready meals
2 January 2014 | By Martin G. Wilkinson, Department of Life Sciences, University of Limerick
Daily salt intake, mainly in the form of sodium chloride, is obtained from either discretionary (salt cellar) or nondiscretionary sources (processed ready meals, snack foods, restaurants and takeaways). Consumers are now obtaining the vast majority, around 75 per cent, of their sodium intake from non-discretionary sources such as ready meals,…
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Food technologies deliver global public health solutions
16 September 2013 | By
Innovative sodium reduction and fibre ingredients showcased at the 20th International Congress of Nutrition...
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Reducing fat and sodium in cheese
19 June 2013 | By Professor Donald J. McMahon, Western Dairy, Utah State University
Health regulators seek to reduce dietary fat intake and sodium intake by stipulating that cheeses should be made with lower fat and lower salt contents. However, both fat and salt contribute to cheese flavour, and fat especially impacts cheese appearance, texture and melting. Cheese is adversely affected by fat and…
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Meat Processing supplement 2013
In this supplement: Pork quality and carcass chilling; Preventing another horsemeat scandal; Enhancing the perceived saltiness of meat products with juiciness...
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Natural flavour ingredients
28 February 2013 | By Jane Parker, Flavour Centre, Reading University
The flavour of processed foods has changed significantly over the last 50 years. Think back to the days of the early stock cubes or the original powdered desserts which bore only a passing resemblance to the real flavour. Since then, the food industry has been involved in a continuous programme…
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V8(R) Juice is hotter than ever with the introduction of low sodium 100% vegetable juice
31 August 2010 | By Campbell Soup Company
Campbell Soup Company is bringing on the heat to low-sodium foods with the introduction of V8 Spicy Hot Low Sodium 100% vegetable juice.
