Confectionery

The snacking market is being revolutionised by a consumer backlash against sugar, salt and artificial ingredients, as well as changing lifestyle and personal wellbeing,...

There has been a 23% rise in Easter chocolate launches from March 2017 to February 2018, providing a plethora of chocolate choice for Easter...

Mondelez International says it will enter China's US$2.8 billion chocolate market with its Milka brand in September 2016. "When we launched our growth plan last...

Fonterra will invest almost US$20 million at its Te Rapa site in New Zealand to meet growing demand for cream cheese and mini-dish butter. Robert...

Chr. Hansen launches a plant-based, brilliant red as a natural alternative to carmine and synthetic colors. It uses a new vegetable variety – the Hansen...

Morinaga Milk Industry opens its new subsidiary, Morinaga Nutritional Foods (Asia Pacific) in Singapore. A vigorous demand for dairy products has been developing in Southeast...

The trend towards vegetarian and vegan products is unabated. In Germany, 7.8 million people are vegetarians and around one million people are vegan, according to...

Tate & Lyle releases instant clean-label starch products Claria Instant 340 and 360. "While consumers are demanding simpler ingredient labels, they are not willing to...

The dynamics of the confectionery industry are nowhere more apparent than in the jelly sector. There seems to be no limit to colors and...

Adding limonene to cocoa butter could result in better reduced-fat chocolate, researchers report in American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Previous research...