Food & Beverage Processing Feature Articles

Cherries have long been appreciated for their taste, but growing evidence about their health benefits is now putting them squarely in the frame for "superfruit" status and they are ...

Researchers from The Australian National University have discovered a new cellular communication process used by plants to respond to drought.

Rising interest in naturalness and growing awareness of the potential health benefits of botanical ingredients have combined with the desire for something more unusual to develop ...

The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has heralded the start of the new year, calling on all Australians to join with agriculture in celebrating the Australian Year of the Farmer.

Despite financial constraints it appears that consumer interest in making ethical food choices is continuing to increase.

Innova Market Insights has identified ten key trends to impact the food and beverage market through 2012 and beyond.

Australian supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have increasingly been coming under fire from food manufacturers, and it’s not just private label goods at the centre of the storm. ...

How do you know if the star ratings on your air conditioner really perform as they state on the label?

A new research laboratory will allow for faster and cheaper identification of microorganisms, not just beneficial to the health sector, but in industrial, food and agricultural ...

While the ready-to-drink or iced coffee market is relatively mature and showing only modest growth in much of Asia, levels of interest elsewhere in the world appear to be growing.

Taking a cue from mother nature, researchers in the US have undertaken a first-of-its-kind study of a naturally occurring phenomenon in trees to spur the development of more efficient ...

In a first for Australia, the University of New South Wales will offer the majority of its intellectual property to companies for free, in a radical step to turn more university ...

$300 million in manufacturing research funding across 1000 projects will help develop currency made of sugar cane and lightweight car parts – and that’s just for starters.

Australia’s food manufacturing sector is under threat, and the industry’s peak body wants something done sooner rather than later.

The battle to protect Australia's terrestrial environment from feared effects of coal seam gas (CSG) mining is at fever pitch.

Ways to reduce the costs of phosphorus fertiliser use on farms – critical for sustaining high agricultural production in many Australian farming systems – have been identified in a ...

Despite an ageing population and a growing interest in maintaining active lifestyles, joint health remains a very underdeveloped area of the functional foods market as a whole.

China, the world’s second largest economy, has its own business ethics and doesn’t need western values forced on it, according to a leading international business academic.

Recently, thousands of families lost their homes and crops as flood waters swept across Central America.

A new equation developed by University of California – Santa Barbara (UCSB) chemical engineers solves the mystery of forces between water-repelling and water-attracting molecules ...