June 2020

Food IngredientsFIrst

Clean label colors are key to differentiation in the increasingly competitive plant-based market, according to GNT Group, makers of natural vegetable-based “Coloring Foods,” branded as Exberry. The Netherlands-based manufacturer supplier has launched new resources on its website to highlight the importance of color in vegan-friendly meat, dairy, cheese and fish alternatives.

Foodnavigator

China online commerce giant Alibaba has predicted that the retail sector in China will see a boom in digitisation as well as a rise in healthy food options moving forth as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.

Food IngredientsFIrst

Consumers that hold negative opinions of genetically modified (GM) food are likely to feel the same way about nano-enabled food – food with nano-additives to enhance flavor, nutrition or prolong shelf life. This comes as the latest finding from a survey at Singapore-based Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH).

BeverageDaily

The Philippines is considering implementing higher sugar taxes as well as new taxes on ‘junk food’ high in sodium and trans fat to offset the costs incurred by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak this year.

Foodnavigator

Disputes over Indonesia’s controversial omnibus law have taken a food-related turn, with various stakeholders now clashing over whether this will cause imported foods to be favoured over local supply, as well as the potentially negative impacts this will have on the local food production chain.