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Opinion: To buy or not to buy – Brands must get serious about user-generated content
Randy Mercer, VP at Global Products, 1 WorldSync explains how food and beverage brands can showcase real experiences and genuine enthusiasm for their products by using User-Generated Content to drive engagement and growth.
Tasting tomorrow: Inside Umami Bioworks' UK cultivated seafood tasting
Hosted at the Underground Cookery School in central London, Umami Bioworks' first UK tasting event offered a behind-the-scenes experience of what may well become the future of seafood.
Opinion: Three ways bioscience innovations are future-proofing the food and beverage industry
Clementina Dellomonaco, senior vice president of food biosciences at IFF, explores how cutting-edge enzyme and culture technologies are helping manufacturers overcome food system challenges.
Opinion: Smooth operators – Inside the creamy texture craze
Shannon O’Shields talks to FoodBev about the most in-demand textural qualities: a silky, creamy and velvety smooth mouthfeel.
Start-up of the month: Urban Farm-It
In this installment, we speak to Elliot Webb, founder of Urban Farm-It, a business offering a range of mushroom cultivation supplies.
Opinion: The protein hype – Is this health movement a distraction from what really matters?
The obsession with protein shows no signs of slowing, but is this nutrient really the health hero it’s made out to be?
Opinion: Raising the bar – ASA’s alcohol-alternative advertising rules
With recent changes to advertising standards in the UK, Andrew Douglas, associate at UK and Ireland law firm Browne Jacobson, explains the advertising rules around alcohol alternatives.
A new prescription? Innovations from the booming nutraceuticals sector
With the gap between food and medicine narrowing, the nutraceuticals market is exploding with innovative, flavour-packed solutions that...
Opinion: Why procurement is key to decarbonising the food and drink industry
CEO and founder at Emitwise, Mauro Cozzi, tells FoodBev how procurement is the key to decarbonisation.
Report: European alternative protein investment hits $509m, but sector remains immature
In a year marked by significant growth, European alternative protein companies attracted nearly $509 million (€470 million) in investment during 2024, reflecting a 23% increase from the previous year.
Opinion: Maximising the benefits of food waste recycling through anaerobic digestion
BioteCH4 chief commercial officer, Lee Dobinson offers some insight into how businesses can make the leap from general waste disposal to the recycling of separate waste streams.
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