INTENSE sweeteners made from monk fruit extract will soon be available for sale in Australia and New Zealand after an approval this week by the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). Monk fruit...

HOW long now until sugary drinks carry the sort of gruesome medical images used on cigarette packets warning smokers of the damage to their health? This week sugar and sugary drinks’ seemingly inexorable...

A FOOD industry player and the “demon” sugar have been included in CHOICE magazine’s hall of shame, being named a “winner” in the consumer watchdog’s annual Shonky awards. But Kellog’s, whose...

INTENSE sweetener made from monk fruit extract will soon almost certainly be legal to sell in Australia and New Zealand. Currently monk fruit can only be used as a food and drink flavouring. But by January...

HEINZ faces a near-maximum $10 million fine for misleading consumers by claiming one of its snacks for toddlers was beneficial for young children. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, at...

FOOD and drink makers using sugar face a new age of compliance as a Senate inquiry into Australia’s obesity epidemic is about to report. The committee, chaired by former GP and Greens leader Richard...

ON the same day doctors linked diabetes to an elevated risk of developing cancer, CSR Sugar launched its new “better for your” Lite Reduced Calorie Sugar. A major medical review on Friday announced...

EFFORTS to reduce the dietary demon sugar are starting to resemble those marshalled against nicotine and cigarettes as the federal government calls for input on labelling options for packaged food and...

Australian soft drink sales are expected to decline once again in 2017. According to research agency, Mintel, by the end of 2017, the total volume sales of Australia’s carbonated soft drink category...

An Israeli company has received US $8.1 million to commercialise a sugar reduction solution that claims to reduce the amount of sugar in a product by 40 per cent. Targeted technologies development company,...