hot drinks
15 Mar 2023
--- CBD is on track to be integrated into bread, cereal, ice cream and other common foodstuffs to create a whole new functional food and supplement market, following a greenlight from the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA)....
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01 Mar 2023
--- Global food insecurity, climate change and resource inefficiency are big problems, but investors are betting on small businesses now more than ever to overcome them. Among an array of promising solutions, alternative...
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22 Feb 2023
--- In what Starbucks calls an “unexpected alchemy,” the US coffee company is infusing its arabica beverages with cold pressed extra virgin olive oil to create a new coffee branded “Oleato.” The company...
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15 Feb 2023
--- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a new partnership with olam food ingredients (ofi) to promote more sustainable coffee production in Peru.
27 Jan 2023
--- FrieslandCampina Professional is highlighting three global trends in the F&B industry: “Weastern Wonders,” a fusion of Eastern and Western influences within one dish; “Conscious Curiosity,” where...
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18 Jan 2023
--- Nactis Flavours, part of Nactarome Group, and Trablit-ISDA are forming a partnership to strengthen their shared space within the sweet market. The collaboration will lead to the creation of a new coffee extract division, a...
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12 Jan 2023
--- Coffee buyers and connoisseurs are celebrating the major strides that Brazil has made in terms of scaling new bean varieties and sensory properties, in addition to key sustainability moves.
09 Jan 2023
--- Sucafina, a Swiss-based coffee company, and ProfilePrint, a Singapore-based AI-driven predictive and prescriptive food ingredient profiler have jointly co-invested in Csmart, a Brazilian developer of AI-powered image...
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21 Nov 2022
--- Nestlé’s Nespresso brand will pilot home-compostable coffee capsules on the Nespresso Original system in France and Switzerland from spring 2023 before further launches in several other European countries within...
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18 Nov 2022
--- DiFluid, a technology company founded by Linus Peng in Shenzhen, China, has launched a system that tailors a cup of coffee to the user’s preference. As part of the Brew Control System, Microbalance, a “precision...
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10 Nov 2022
--- Nescafé Dolce Gusto has rolled out a hot beverage machine concept pegged as a “coffee shop at home,” branded Neo. The system’s proprietary technology and home-compostable pods are dubbed the...
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19 Oct 2022
--- Nestlé plans to acquire the Seattle’s Best Coffee brand from Starbucks in a deal that is part of Nestlé’s focus on driving sustained profitable growth in the coffee category. The transaction - the...
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12 Oct 2022
--- Innova Market Insights has identified “Redefining Value” as its top F&B trend for 2023, as consumers adapt to a global cost-of-living crisis in the face of economic and political volatility. With budgets...
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04 Oct 2022
--- With regenerative agriculture gaining speed across the food sector, Nescafé, Nestlé’s largest coffee brand, is ramping up efforts to support farmers along its supply chain transition to this practice. As...
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28 Sep 2022
--- Consumer awareness around finding products that contain natural ingredients with well-being benefits continues to spur the meteoric growth of botanical extracts, with region-specific flavors such as African superfoods,...
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26 Sep 2022
--- Credit DeFiAlliance (CreDA) has rolled out an alternative credit scoring model for farmers in Brazil. The decentralized credit rating service has built an artificial intelligence (AI) service that evaluates farmers’...
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20 Sep 2022
--- Coffee inventories in South America are declining so badly that reserves are forecast to be dangerously low. Global coffee prices are increasing and will continue to do so amid market uncertainty driven by supply shortages...
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19 Sep 2022
--- Consuming tea daily reduces the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, suggests a study of over one million subjects. Each cup of green, black or oolong tea consumed daily reduces the risk of Type 2 diabetes by about 1%.A...
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02 Sep 2022
--- The Global Coffee Platform (GCP) has revealed that eight of the coffee industry’s key roasters and retailers increased their sustainable coffee purchases last year. However, more collaborative efforts need to be made...
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30 Aug 2022
--- People who drink two cups of black tea per day have a 9% to 13% lower risk of an early death than non-tea consumers, according to a study from the US National Cancer Institute.