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Be Connected & Informed — Renew your CIFST Membership now for 2014
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We value YOU and your CIFST membership and trust you want to be part of our network of food and beverage professionals in 2014. 2013 was a milestone year for CIFST and 2014 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting years to be a member.
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Formulate tasty naturally sweetened products with stevia and oligofructose
Research has revealed that Sensus oligofructose can be used to improve the taste profile of stevia, providing new opportunities for the food industry to create tasty, naturally sweetened products. Sensus investigated the sensory characteristics of stevia in combination with Frutalose® oligofructose syrup.
Canadians trash $27 billion worth of food a year
Edmonton Journal
Michelle Eshpeter is fighting food waste, one piece of chalk at a time. The mother of two preschoolers finds that menu planning, and keeping an ongoing grocery list on a giant chalk board tacked to the kitchen door, is the best way to ensure she saves money — and the environment — by only buying the amount of food her family will eat.
Canada sued over approval of "toxic" GMO salmon
Grist
Canadian officials ventured into uncharted legal and ecological waters when they approved the cultivation and export of genetically engineered salmon eggs last year. And now environmental groups have sued the government, claiming the approval illegally disregarded the potential for the transgenic fish to become an invasive species.
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Twinkies, Pop Tarts among tax-exempt foods
CBC News
It turns out that snack foods like Twinkies and Pop-Tarts are tax-exempt in Manitoba, alongside grocery staples like vegetables and meat. The list of basic grocery products that are tax-exempt across Canada, including in Manitoba, includes fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, poultry, breakfast cereals and some dairy products.
Vancouver food trucks serve up flavour
Vancouver Courier
Stationed at the very end of the parking lot of Nat Bailey Stadium was the Soho Road food cart. Sarb Mund had just finished stringing up his lights, twinkling gold against his black cart from which he recently ripped out the conventional oven for a tandoor oven and a whole lot of authenticity — especially if you happen to be from Birmingham, England.
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The 5 weirdest food trends to watch for in 2014
Toronto Life
Earlier this month, the American National Restaurant Association released its culinary forecast for 2014. The purpose of the report, which is based on a survey of over 1,300 American chefs, is to predict the food trends that will dominate restaurant menus in the upcoming year. While a few of this year's findings are intriguing — Peruvian, for instance, is predicted to overtake Korean as the ethnic cuisine of choice — the takeaways are hardly Earth-shattering.
FDA says it is studying caramel coloring in soda, other foods
The Vancouver Sun
The Food and Drug Administration says it is conducting new studies of the safety of caramel coloring in soft drinks and other foods, even though previous research has shown no identifiable health risk. The agency's announcement comes in response to a study by Consumer Reports that shows varying levels of 4-methylimidazole — an impurity formed in some caramel coloring at low levels during the manufacturing process — in 12 brands of soda from five manufacturers.
Nanoscale tools to help humans, plants
University of Guelph
Your doctor pinpoints faulty genes that might increase your risk of cancer. Standing in a field, a farmer uses a handheld tool to scan crops for diseases. Such novel ways to predict and detect human and crop diseases more rapidly and accurately may one day result from new nanoscale methods for looking at genetic material tested by University of Guelph researchers.
Computer chips in food packaging could 'text people when food is going off'
The Telegraph
Computer chips in futuristic food packaging could warn consumers when their food is about to go off, it has been reported. Scientists have developed the gadget that can be inserted into packets of perishable foods, which will be able to assess when the contents are nearing their use-by date, an EU committee of peers has heard.
Danone 'squaround' yogurt pot a 'huge technical challenge'
Food Production Daily
The square base and circular lid of the Danone for Men yogurt pot — a format termed "squaround" — presented a "huge technical challenge", developer Greiner Packaging has revealed. Danone for Men, a yogurt range manufactured specifically for men, was launched in Bulgaria in July 2013. Following a successful launch period, the Danone for Men concept "is currently being expanded to other markets," said Greiner.
More signs a Mediterranean diet helps prevent cardiovascular ills
NPR
A new analysis, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, builds on the work of a prior study, which looked at how a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, fish and healthful oils — namely olive oil — cuts the risk of heart attacks and strokes. That earlier study found that the risk was 30 per cent lower for people eating the Mediterranean diet compared with those on a standard low-fat diet.
General Mills files patent to cut salt and fat in dough
Bakery and Snacks
General Mills has filed a patent for salt-flavored fat particles that enable cost effective sodium reduction and fat replacement in baked dough products. A growing desire from consumers, regulators and food companies to reduce the sodium content in foods, as well as concerns around "another health-sensitive ingredient" — fat, prompted the development, General Mills said in its international patent filing .
Global farm ministers call for higher, diverse food production
Ag Professional
A meeting of agriculture ministers from 69 countries called for higher farm productivity coupled with cultivation of diverse crop types to help beat world hunger. Global farming needs to maintain a balance between diversity and high output while avoiding monoculture of single crops, said a statement from Germany's Agriculture Ministry after the meeting in Berlin of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture.
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Canadians trash $27 billion worth of food a year
Edmonton Journal
Michelle Eshpeter is fighting food waste, one piece of chalk at a time. The mother of two preschoolers finds that menu planning, and keeping an ongoing grocery list on a giant chalk board tacked to the kitchen door, is the best way to ensure she saves money — and the environment — by only buying the amount of food her family will eat.
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Food of the future: Bugs, seaweed and vertical farms
CBC News
Farms in the sky, meat gardens, and crunchy winged snacks — these could be food sources of the future.
CBC science columnist Torah Kachur explores the tastes of tomorrow in a CBC Radio special, Food of the Future.
Kachur speaks with Memorial University entomologist Tom Chapman about how low-fat, high-protein insects could became part of a balanced diet, and even samples some cricket cookies.
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Nestlé extends Toffee Crisp chocolate bar into cereal
Bakery and Snacks
Nestlé has made another chocolate brand extension, this time into breakfast, with adult-targeted Toffee Crisp cereal — set to be a win with older consumers, says innovation director at Mintel. The move to shift Nestlé's $51.3 million chocolate bar brand into cereal comes after previous Toffee Crisp extensions into biscuits, multipacks and multiple formats. The Swiss food major will roll out the cereal in February across major U.K. retailers and said it is targeting adults aged 35+.
McDonald's reasserts supply chain commitment
Global Meat News
McDonald's has reinforced its commitment to its supply chain assurance and pledged to step up its operations with regard to sustainability in its beef supply. Keith Kenney, senior director, supply chain, for McDonald's Europe, said the company was untouched by the horsemeat scandal, due to the integrity of its supply chain throughout Europe.
Study backs whey protein for fat and starch replacement
Dairy Reporter
Micro-particles of whey protein could help manufacturers cut calories in food products by replacing starch and fat, suggest researchers. The new study systematically examined the potential of micro-particulated whey protein (MWP) as a replacer of fat and starch granules in reduced calorie foods by assessing the impact of MWP addition on the physicochemical properties of model food emulsions.
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PepsiCo axes stevia-sweetened Gatorade lines in U.S.
Food Navigator
PepsiCo admits that it discontinued its Natural Gatorade drinks G Natural and G2 last November as the products did not resonate with their core consumer group of athletes. PepsiCo withdrew the products last November — which were launched with a fanfare around three years before with "natural flavors and ingredients".
Study: Carcinogen concerns for U.S. cereals and snacks
Bakery and Snacks
U.S. breakfast cereals and snacks need a closer look after a small scale study revealed potential carcinogen risks, researchers say. The study published in the journal Food Control showed that 75 (52 per cent) of the 144 breakfast cereal and snack samples collected were contaminated with between 0.10 and 7.43 nanograms per gram (ng/g) of the potentially carcinogenic Ochratoxin A (OTA). Ten of these contaminated US samples, all oat based products, exceeded the European Commission's maximum limit of 3 ng/g of OTA in cereal based products.
Turkish dairy sector 'very attractive' investment opportunity
Dairy Reporter
Turkey's young population and the gaining pace of its move from open to packaged products made the country's dairy industry a "very attractive" venture opportunity, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said following its first investment in the sector. The deal marks EBRD's first equity investment in the Turkish dairy industry, which is currently worth around $3.6 billion and is expected to grow at a rate of 8.6 per cent per annum between 2012 and 2017.
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