News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Food chemists bring new knowledge to cut costs in the steady European popcorn market, identifying a key crystalline structure in popcorn that appears to determine its popping quality, reports Lindsey Partos.
Ambitious US ingredients supplier Cargill boosts its war chest, announcing a 35 per cent rise in profit for the third quarter of 2005, on gains from commodity trading and its animal feed and steel businesses.
Knocked by an economic slowdown and the strength of the Euro against the US dollar, growth in turnover for the European food and drink industry rose by a 1.9 per cent wisp from 2002 to 2003, concludes a new report from the US government, Lindsey...