Archives for August 4, 2004

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Size reducing ice cream ingredients

Canadian supplier of food processing equipment Quadro has come up with equipment to reduce the size of high-fat ice cream ingredients (chocolate/pralines) for use in premium ice cream products.

Brewing counteracts low carb knock for Novozymes

Slight growth for Danish enzymes giant Novozymes in the first half of the year with Europe providing steady returns but US market knocked by the popular low carbohydrate diet that has hit the baking industry.

China embraces biotech potato seed

Penn Biotech, a Canadian firm specialising in agro biotechnology, says that it's Chinese subsidiary has received a request from one of the world's largest potato processors to initially supply over 1.3 million pounds of seed potatoes during the course...

Chewy vitamins for 'tweens'

As Hero Nutritionals adds a new product to its line, in the form of Yummi Bears Sourz and Yummi Gworms Sourz, multi-vitamins targeted at "tweens" - or children aged eight to 13 years - Annette Dickinson, president of the Council for Responsible...