December 2024

FoodIngredients First

TurtleTree has entered its first Singapore-based partnership with Mad Foods to enhance the ready-to-drink (RTD) brand’s oat milk coffee beverages with LF+, its vegan-certified lactoferrin protein made from precision fermentation. The use of fermentation to scale lactoferrin production addresses the current global shortage of the multifunctional ingredient, which has led to high costs and supply issues.

FoodIngredients First

NTU Singapore scientists have created a biodegradable food wrap that changes color when the food it protects has spoiled. The wrap also has antibacterial properties that could protect the food from microbial contamination. The food wrap is upcycled from discarded avocado pits and starch from durian and jackfruit seeds.

Business World

CMV Txokolat’s Christian Valdes is focusing on luxury chocolate that is distinctly Filipino. When we bite into chocolate, we only get its taste, and it becomes easy to ignore all the processes that go into making a tiny bite. The chocolate that Christian Valdes, founder of CMV Txokolat, brings attention to all the work everybody else has done to bring the chocolate from bean to bar — for him, he’s simply the last link in a chain extending hundreds of years.

New Straits Times

NESTLÉ Malaysia is marking a milestone in its efforts to foster healthier eating habits among schoolchildren, with its Nestlé for Healthier Kids (N4HK) programme reaching a significant 14th year.

FoodNavigator Asia

The Indonesian government’s latest notification to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has included a stern warning to both domestic and foreign food firms against introducing products with high sugar, salt or fat content.

FoodNavigator Asia

The cultivated meat and seafood sector in APAC has gone through various ups and downs in recent years – but now that the dust has settled, what does the industry truly see as the path forward?

FoodNavigator Asia

As consumer demand for novelty and health-focused offerings continues to grow, Japanese brands are finding renewed optimism to bring authentic and innovative products into the Asia Pacific market.

FoodNavigator Asia

Gunanusa Eramandiri, the Indonesian food company known for its Almonesia brand, is diversifying beyond its core nut offerings with the introduction of new products, including fruit jams and nut-based milk.

NutraIngredients Asia

There are plans among China botanical extracts suppliers to build operations in South East Asia in a bid to bypass potential tariffs hikes under the new Trump administration.

FoodNavigator Asia

Singapore’s move to extend the Nutri-Grade labelling and advertising prohibitions to key contributors of sodium and saturated fat will likely be ‘effective’, according to industry experts.

NutraIngredients Asia

A Singapore-based company specialising in pre-, pro-, and postbiotics supplement has added fermented food and mouthwash to its range, as it attempts to provide “complete protection” for the entire gastrointestinal tract.

FoodNavigator Asia

B2B partnerships and a focus on cultivated chicken are Vital Meat’s strategies to scale production and achieve competitive pricing in the APAC market for cultivated protein.