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2025 Trend Report for the Food and Beverage Industry

2025 promises to be a transformative year for the food and beverage sector. Strengthen your business strategy and gain a lasting competitive edge with this practical guide to the industry’s most significant challenges an..

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World's largest food inventory in development

17 January 2022

What do people commonly eat in different countries worldwide? Anna Herforth, Visiting Senior Researcher at Wageningen University & Research works together with different partners on answering these questions. The Global ...

Fruit and vegetable consumption up by 3% in 2021

13 January 2022

In the second corona year, the Dutch consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables rose by 3 percent, according to the analysis of GroentenFruit Huis for 2021. Healthy eating with fruit and vegetables continues to attract in...

New import criteria for fruit and vegetables as of April 2022

12 January 2022

On 11 April 2022, additional or amended requirements will apply for the import of some fruit and vegetables from one or more countries. This applies to Annona, Carica papaya, Psidium gujava, Capsicum, Solanum and Momordi...

HAK aims to achieve B Corp certification in 2022

12 January 2022

In line with its previously stated sustainability mission, vegetable manufacturer HAK aims to become an officially certified B Corporation, or B Corp for short, by 2022. The independent B Corp certification is an initiat...

Global Flexibles acquired by Dimensio

11 January 2022

On 3 January 2022, Global Flexibles Europe B.V. (GFE) became part of the Dimensio group. Bert Verheij - former owner of GFE - commented on the acquisition: "After more than 21 years of hard work building up our beauti...

Output prices industry up by nearly 21 percent

11 January 2022

The average growth rate of output prices in the total industry was 20.9 percent in November. Output prices in the petroleum industry rose by no less than 92.7 percent and in both the chemical and the basic metal industri...

Food Boost Challenge: healthy eating for and by young people

11 January 2022

Dutch youth eat too little fruit and vegetables. This is worrisome, because their unhealthy diet increases the risk of overweight and obesity. It also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, some forms of cancer an...

A plant-based diet can provide twice the CO₂ gain

11 January 2022

We can remove almost 100 billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere before the century is out. That is, if high-income countries switch to a plant-based diet. Returning farmland to its original state for cattle breeding d...

33% of Europeans do not eat fruit or vegetables on a daily basis

11 January 2022

In 2019, 1 in 3 people (33%) in the EU reported not consuming any fruit or vegetables daily and only 12% of the population consumed the recommended 5 portions or more daily. On average, over half of the EU population (55...

Ecological coating for fruit and vegetables

11 January 2022

Empa and Lidl Switzerland have jointly developed a cellulose protective coating for fruit and vegetables. The novel coating is made from so-called pomace – squeezed fruit and vegetable peels. The innovative project can r...

Espera organises a live round table discussion on 19 January

10 January 2022

Espera continues to be innovative in its online activities. This time, the company has rented a TV studio on 19 January 2022 and invited four leading speakers active in the food industry to hold a live discussion. The...

Consumers are prepared to pay more for organic products

10 January 2022

Consumers are more willing to pay a premium for organic products after an explanation of what organic means, according to research by Future of Food Institute, commissioned by Bionext. The positive attitude towards organ...

FAO: 'Food price index increased by 28.1% in 2021'

07 January 2022

The FAO food price index averaged 125.7 points in 2021, an increase of no less than 28.1% compared to 2020, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Only in 2011 was the index higher at 13...

FoodDrinkEurope appoints new Director General

05 January 2022

FoodDrinkEurope is pleased to announce the appointment of Dirk Jacobs as its new Director General, effective from 1 January 2022. He takes over from Mella Frewen, who stepped down after almost 15 years in the role. Mr Ja...

Albert Heijn launches next step of Nutri-Score implementation

04 January 2022

Albert Heijn starts with the next step of the gradual introduction of the independent food choice logo Nutri-Score. From 3 January 2022, the Nutri-Score of 6,000 own-brand products will be visible on electronic price tag...