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Adoption of fortified foods, functional foods may face limitations: Aspire Circle

Adoption of fortified foods, functional foods may face limitations: Aspire Circle

India can generate $1 trillion in revenues from Agriculture and Food sector, making it the largest private sector Industry by 2030, reveals reportWith an investment of $272 billion in agritech and allied segments by 2030,

Ingredients
ADM announces acquisition of Flavor Infusion International

ADM announces acquisition of Flavor Infusion International

Continues growth in high-value flavour segmentADM has acquired Flavor Infusion International, S.A. (FISA), a full-range provider of flavor and specialty ingredient solutions for customers across Latin America and the Caribbean. Vince Macciocchi, president of ADM’s

Opinion
Rise of consciousness in food choices

Rise of consciousness in food choices

The pandemic has driven global attention to the fragility of human lives and our abilities to anticipate and manage the outbreak of a life-threatening pandemic. Interdependence and interconnectivity of the Planet, Animals and Humans has

Column
2022 influencing food product innovations

2022 influencing food product innovations

The COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic related restrictions have led to significant shifts in consumer behaviour in terms of their eating habits, preferences for certain diet and nutritional products and their decision to buy, including

Policy
Why ’Eating Right Ed’  in schools is crucial?

Why ’Eating Right Ed’ in schools is crucial?

The triple burden of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and rising overweight/obesity, particularly among children, is threatening social and economic growth in India. At least half of boys (58.1 per cent ) and girls (50.1 per cent

Allied Industry
What’s Brewing in Food Processing Sector?

What’s Brewing in Food Processing Sector?

Research on the role of nutrition in complex non-communicable chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancers, and communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, COVID-19, flu, among others, is gradually increasing in India. However,

Allied Industry
ITC Master Chef launches 100 mobile carts selling frozen snacks in Delhi-NCR

ITC Master Chef launches 100 mobile carts selling frozen snacks in Delhi-NCR

The Frozen retail market has been growing at 15 per cent CAGR as consumers seek variety in food that is tasty, convenient to cook and safe and hygienicITC Master Chef Frozen Snacks has entered into

Research
Food scientists offer data model for personalised dietary recommendations

Food scientists offer data model for personalised dietary recommendations

If the personalised diet recommendation proves to be effective, researchers would like to create a Netflix-like food systemWith the support of a Data Science Investigator grant of DKK 9,267,806 from The Novo Nordisk Foundation, Associate Professor Morten Arendt

Global
Finland leads national research infrastructure for climate-smart food research

Finland leads national research infrastructure for climate-smart food research

The FOODNUTRI research infrastructure will contribute to the implementation of the EU’s Food 2030 policyThe FOODNUTRI research infrastructure has been granted €3.5 million in funding by the Academy of Finland. The three-year project is headed

Policy
Narendra Singh Tomar releases book ’Spices Statistics at a Glance 2021’

Narendra Singh Tomar releases book ’Spices Statistics at a Glance 2021’

Spices production in the country grew from 67 lakh tonnes in 2014-15 to 107 lakh tonnes in 2020-21Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar has released the book ‘Spices Statistics at a