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Coca-Cola launches first alcoholic drink in Japan

Coca-Cola launches first alcoholic drink in Japan

Coca-Cola launched its first ever alcoholic drink today in Japan; a fizzy, lemon-flavoured concoction laced with spirits that seek to capitalise on the growing popularity of "chuhai" alcopops enjoyed especially by young women.   Although

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Nestle to merge research units for strengthening innovation

Nestle to merge research units for strengthening innovation

Nestlé has announced that it will combine its two research units in order to strengthen its R&D capabilities and accelerate product innovation.   The Nestlé Research Center and the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences will

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Microsoft Gets Visual Food Logging Patent

Microsoft Gets Visual Food Logging Patent

Microsoft appears to be applying its computer vision and AI smarts to make watching what you eat easier. Microsoft was awarded a patent for “Food Logging From Images.” That basically means, you can take a

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Halal Food Companies Are Going to Blockchain

Halal Food Companies Are Going to Blockchain

TE-FOOD partnered with HALAL TRAIL™, a UK based company, to track livestock and fresh food from farm to table, through the halal food chain.   From the 7.6 billion people in the world, almost 2

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Nestle to launch allergen-free chocolate chip range

Nestle to launch allergen-free chocolate chip range

To mark Food Allergy Awareness Week in the US, Nestlé Toll House has released a new allergen-free chocolate chip product line for use in baking.   The Simply Delicious Morsels range will initially offer two

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AI-powered robots use precision spraying to target and fight weeds

AI-powered robots use precision spraying to target and fight weeds

In a field of sugar beet in Switzerland, a solar-powered robot that looks like a table on wheels scans the rows of crops with its camera, identifies weeds and zaps them with jets of blue

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Vermont Coffee to utilise 100% renewable energy

Vermont Coffee to utilise 100% renewable energy

US-based Vermont Coffee Company has announced that its coffee roasting facility in Middlebury, Vermont is now powered by 100 per cent renewable energy, and the company claims it is the first US coffee roaster to

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Algaia receives 4 M euros boost

Algaia receives 4 M euros boost

Algaia, S.A., will accelerate development and install a new specialty seaweed extract production unit in its Lannilis (Brittany-France) manufacturing facility dedicated to specialty algae extracts. The company’s main shareholder, Maabarot Products Ltd., infused Algaia with

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New initiative benchmarks seed companies

New initiative benchmarks seed companies

The Access to Seeds Index, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the government of the Netherlands, aims to encourage seed companies to step up their efforts to support smallholder farmer

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KP Snacks to acquire Tyrrells from The Hershey Company

KP Snacks to acquire Tyrrells from The Hershey Company

Intersnack Group subsidiary KP Snacks has agreed a deal to acquire premium snacks brand Tyrells from The Hershey Company for an undisclosed sum.   KP Snacks will acquire Tyrrells’s head office and two manufacturing sites