El fabricante de ingredientes funcionales para la industria de la alimentación y bebidas ha adquirido la empresa alemana c-LEcta, dedicada a la innovación biotecnológica, y la mejicana Enmex, fabricante de enzimas. Con ellas amplía su cartera tecnológica y su capacidad de fabricación Las dos empresas de biotecnología suponen “una adquisición estratégica importante” para Kerry, señalan desde […]
In a new study evaluating the expectations and opinions of “food at-home and away-from-home,” Ireland-headquartered Kerry Group has completed a survey of 2,100 health-conscious US consumers. The research outlines a prominent shift in common perceptions of the clean label standard. Consumers are now looking beyond clean label status as a filter of unacceptable ingredients and […]
Whitepaper highlights the nutritional and scientific basis for the emerging umami flavour that is increasingly being incorporated in the Western food and beverage industry. Umami is a flavour which is starting to increase in popularity around the world. The Kerry Health & Nutrition Institute, which provides science-based insights in the area of nutrition, taste, general […]
With more consumers, and therefore more companies, seeking to eliminate the presence of acrylamide in food and beverage products due to carcinogenic concerns, two companies have introduced a new yeast ingredient that can help formulators reduce acrylamide content by up to 90%. Flavors and ingredients firm Kerry (Naas, Ireland) has partnered with Renaissance BioScience, a […]
Kerry Group, the Ireland-based consumer foods and ingredients supplier, today (25 October) announced acquisitions in the US and the Middle East. In a stock-exchange filing this morning, Kerry said it had struck deals to buy California-based ingredients business Fleischmann’s Vinegar Co. and Oman-headquartered foodservice supplier AATCO Food Industries. Kerry is to pay a combined […]
Taste & Nutrition company, Kerry, is celebrating the US$28.6 million expansion of its facility in Rochester, Minnesota. This project increases manufacturing capacity at the state-of-the-art facility and includes the addition of a new spray dryer and two 10,000 gallon dryer feed tanks. Groundbreaking for the expansion commenced in April 2017 and a ribbon-cutting ceremony was […]
Taste and Nutrition company, Kerry, has confirmed the acquisition of the Spanish food producer Hasenosa for an undisclosed sum. The Galicia-based company is a producer of added value coatings with a specialty in extruded and gluten-free breadcrumbs and coatings systems. This acquisition reaffirms Kerry Taste & Nutrition’s commitment to the European market and its customers. […]
Sugar reduction is at the top of most NPD agendas and in just over a month (April 6, 2018), the much-debated sugar tax will come into effect in the UK. The market penetration of new food & beverages with sugar reduction claims continues to grow. Interestingly, a recent poll conducted in a live webinar and […]
In response to the growing consumer demand for sugar alternatives, Kerry has developed TasteSense Sugar, a natural flavoring solution, which builds back the sweetness that is lost, when sugar is reduced, allowing consumers to enjoy the taste and mouth feel that sugar delivers, without the negative labeling impact. TasteSense allows for up to 30 percent […]
Following Kerry Group’s $220 million (€193m) investment into research and development (R&D) last year, what’s next for ingredient innovation at the Irish company? We caught up with the firm’s Chief Innovation Officer. “We were a dairy cooperative – we started out taking milk and making added value products from it and that culture, that focus […]
