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The Spring issue of Canadian Food Insights is now available!
Canadian Food Insights is a digital publication with quarterly issues and reaches academia, scientists, government, industry and food service.
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CBC News
Some Canadians are snubbing expensive fruits and vegetables, instead turning to frozen produce and juice as less-pricey alternatives, a new survey by researchers from two universities has found. Soaring produce prices have been a hot topic recently. Fresh vegetable costs rose 11.7 per cent and fresh fruit prices increased 11 per cent year-over-year in April, according to Statistics Canada's most recent consumer price index report.
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Food Dive
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When the FDA announced details for the long-anticipated Nutrition Facts overhaul last month, the industry responded with mixed reactions, ranging from full support to just short of outrage. Among the changes making the most waves across the industry are the new line for added sugars, serving size updates and packaging size requirements, and new nutrition changes that will change daily value percentages for nutrients like sodium and dietary fiber.
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CBC News
The University of Toronto's downtown campus will cut ties with its food service provider, Aramark, later this summer and start running most of its on-campus dining options itself, the latest school to satisfy what appears to be a growing appetite for fresh meals.
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CBC News
Canadians have seen a spate of food recalls lately, thanks to possible Listeria and E. coli contamination. The recalls have involved a range of foods, including granola and other grain products, frozen vegetables and salad greens.
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Marketing Magazine
Retail continues to undergo massive disruption. Technology is advancing at a dizzying pace, consumers are savvier (and as a result, more demanding) than ever before and competition from small, nimble players is increasing. So it really shouldn't come as a surprise to learn the most disrupting force in the retail industry today is the millennial generation (16-36 year olds born into, and in many cases now leading, the technology revolution).
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Canadian Grocer
Craig Anderson, Overwaitea Food Group's general manager of operations for Canada's three prairie provinces, says Fort McMurray is usually a bustling place with traffic and people coming and going in all directions at any time of day. But there's an eerie silence this week as residents begin returning home after last month's devastating fire.
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Supermarket News
Retail dollar sales of specialty products grew 19.7 per cent from 2013-2015, according to the Specialty Food Association's 2016 State of the Specialty Food Industry report, a joint research project that incorporates data from Mintel and SPINS/IRI.
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Progressive Grocer
Each year begins with a flurry of food and nutrition trends predictions that retail dietitians use for program planning and to prepare for shopper questions. Right about now, it's time for a mid-year update on what's trending in the natural and organic foods space. The Sterling-Rice Group (SRG) has identified the "Natural Nine," which are the top nine natural and organic food trends that illustrate the consumers' continued commitment to making natural and organic products a central part of daily life.
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CBC News
On The Coast food columnist Gail Johnson says elementary school students don't get enough opportunities to connect with food preparation and origins, but two independent programs want to change that. The first, Project CHEF — Cook Heathy Edible Food — is the brainchild of local chef Barbara Finley. She started the program a decade ago because she was shocked by the things kids were bringing to school for lunches and snacks.
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Pembina Valley Online
A new division of a national charity is aiming to build public trust and confidence in Canada's food system. Last week Farm & Food Care Canada launched the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity (CCFI), an international affliate of the U.S.-based Centre for Food Integrity. Farm & Food Care CEO Crystal Mackay says the CCFI will act as an intelligence division for Canada's food system, conducting research with the public.
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Progressive Grocer
The booming U.S. organic industry posted new records in 2015, with total organic product sales hitting a new benchmark of $43.3 billion, up a robust 11 per cent from the previous year's record level and far outstripping the overall food market's growth rate of three per cent, according to the Organic Trade Association's 2016 Organic Industry Survey.
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Ad Week
As consumers cut sugar and salt from their diets, fast-food and snack-food brands are fighting for survival. And part of their survival strategy is to downsize, with many brands slashing product sizes or introducing smaller versions of signature offerings.
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Specializing in quality control of grain, flour, food, and feed, Perten Instruments has been a leading supplier of advanced analytical instruments in the agricultural industry for over 50 years. Founder, Harold Perten, had the vision of providing customers with improved product quality by delivering affordable analytical methods that were easy to use and interpret, and this remains a corner stone of our business.
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As businesses adopt mobile technology at an unprecedented pace, the need for best-in-class mobile devices, support and services is growing rapidly. Samsung Mobile is committed to supporting businesses' mobile-first initiatives, offering a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise solutions.
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Canadian Grocer
As procurement decisions go, Francis Bérubé says it didn't seem a big deal 10 years ago when Sobeys Quebec became what's believed to be North America's first major grocery chain to start selling fair trade bananas.
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Huffington Post
Canadians like to complain about rising food prices, but our rate of inflation went up 1.66 per cent this past year — in Venezuela, the International Monetary Fund predicts it could go up to 720 per cent. Residents are facing otherworldly sticker shock for basic goods, amid an economic crisis fuelled by the oil price collapse and excessive government spending.
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