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What a year 2024 was! The food industry was bursting with innovations, ambitious projects, and striking trends. From sustainable production facilities to groundbreaking technologies – these were the stories that caught y..

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ING: High energy prices new test for food producers

17 November 2022

Are food producers able to absorb the high input costs, including energy, now that they remain high for the time being? In addition, companies also have to deal with large differences in compensation measures from nation...

WUR: Diversity between various groups of eaters

17 November 2022

Two recently published studies from Wageningen University & Research compared consumers with various eating patterns. The studies focussed specifically on meat eaters, flexitarians and vegetarians, and on the diversi...

WUR: Farmed insects fit in the food system

26 October 2022

Edible insects can use the organic residual streams from agriculture and the food sector and make new food or feed from them. In this way they may make food systems more sustainable. Alejandro Parodi studied how sustaina...

The Top Ten Food Trends of 2023

20 October 2022

'Redefining Value' heads Innova Market Insights’ Top Ten Trends for 2023, as consumers adapt to a global cost-of-living crisis in the face of economic and political volatility. With budgets stretched and supplies under s...

Cultivated meat production Mosa Meat to new level

19 October 2022

Mosa Meat is celebrating taking the next step in the scaling up of their facilities for the production of cultivated beef. The company is expanding to a total of 7,340 m2 facilities (77,000 sq ft.), making it the largest...

Supermarket is not yet a healthy food environment

18 October 2022

Unhealthy products still predominate in supermarkets' offers, range and layout. This is according to Questionmark's recently published Superlijst Gezondheid 2022. Supermarkets promised in the National Prevention Agreemen...

EFSA: Cost biggest concern for EU consumer

17 October 2022

The cost of food is weighing more heavily on Europeans today than a few years ago, becoming the main factor influencing food purchases, followed by taste. Close to half consider food safety important too and 41% of EU ci...

Column Judith Witte: 'Heating and cybercrime'

17 October 2022

I really don't consider myself a digital illiterate, to put it bluntly. I am an expert in Word, I can e-mail, instagram, do digital banking and buy train tickets at an ns ticket machine. However, everything is relative. ...

Smart Industry: “Innovate or drown"

17 October 2022

Digitalisation, automation and robotisation are bitterly necessary to keep your head above water as a food manufacturer. However, technical innovation cannot happen without the power of the people in your company. That a...

Foodvalley helps frontrunners in food transition

17 October 2022

Every intermediate step in the transition to a different food system is one, is the motto at Foodvalley. Thanks in part to an impressive network and the ability to join forces across sectors, CEO Marjolein Brasz and her ...

Big data takes food safety to higher level

17 October 2022

New and powerful algorithms and bioinformatics tools are enabling the development of models that make it much easier to predict outbreaks of food-borne diseases. Nestlé and Mars are among the first to invest in HTS infra...

Dutch Meat consumption stable in 2021

13 October 2022

The total per capita consumption of meat and meat products in the Netherlands in 2021 was 76.1 kg (based on carcass weight), almost the same as the 75.9 kg consumed per person in 2020. This is the conclusion of a study b...

Upcycling is one of the green innovation trends of 2022

12 October 2022

This year ClimateLaunchpad, the global green business competition, sees a remarkable number of start-ups looking for 'system solutions', ways to reuse resources. The competition has seen a striking number of entries with...

Eating plant-based: We want to, but we don't

11 October 2022

Dutch people are open to replacing dairy, meat and eggs with plant-based alternatives, but their behaviour does not always show it. So in this case too, wanting is not automatically doing, according to the Agrifood Monit...

The Zwamcijsje, an HAS idea going to market

06 October 2022

The Zwamcijsje is the modern sausage roll. The smell, colour and taste that make your mouth water, but plant-based and with a lot less fat. Mendelt Tillema devised the Zwamcijsje with fellow student Rick Houtepen duri...