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Supplier giant ConAgra gets into ingredient business

Supplier giant ConAgra gets into ingredient business

The leading food suppliers ConAgra Foods has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its JM Swank business, a national food ingredient sourcing and distribution company, to Platinum Equity, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm.

Ingredients
BioNutraceuticals

BioNutraceuticals

Today with the  onset  of regulations  being  at  the  final stage for  Nutraceuticals   and   Ayurceuticals  the  day is not  too  far that there  will be  lot  more  of synthetic Nutraceuticals that will come into the

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Opportunities & challenges for direct marketing in Indian healthcare!

Opportunities & challenges for direct marketing in Indian healthcare!

Direct marketing of health- care products, which was unheard of till a few years ago,   is now emerging   as a huge opportunity. Thanks to the internet and mobile revolution, the distance between the seller and

Nutritionals
Journey: From the poor guar to rich nutraceutical

Journey: From the poor guar to rich nutraceutical

In the May issue a journey from botanical to supplement was covered giving larger aspects along with an example of Nutraceutical from tea. It was also committed that this theme would be expanded.All of us 

Ingredients
Creating authentic, exciting and cost-effective products through texture

Creating authentic, exciting and cost-effective products through texture

When eating, all five senses are engaged sight, smell, taste, touch, and even hearing. The stimulating sight and tantalising aroma of a steaming bowl of soupy noodles, the first bite sunk into springy noodles, the

Research
Innovation in ingredients

Innovation in ingredients

The nutraceutical ingredients are  basically  natural   bioactive compounds that possess health   promoting  and   medicinal properties, they  also possess disease  preventing properties  up  to some  extent. These bioactive compounds   can be derived from plant or animal

Ingredients
Cashew Apple: The untapped ingredient

Cashew Apple: The untapped ingredient

As many as 98% of the over 40 lakh tonnes of cashew apples produced in the country reportedly go waste. Goa and Kerala are the two states that are using cashew apples for production of

Allied Industry
Bread in a chemical jam

Bread in a chemical jam

“All sorrows are less with bread”- Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraReally? Now we have to change this quote a bit and say all sorrows begin with bread? Recently Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) came out

Allied Industry
FSSAI mandated to introduce standards for fortification of food grains

FSSAI mandated to introduce standards for fortification of food grains

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution together with Union Ministry of Health and various other ministries have assigned the mandate to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to come up