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• ヘルシア チョイス：カルビーのグラノーラ、PepsiCoの栄養戦略、カフェインフリーのお茶

  10-08-2026 14:45 via foodnavigator.com
  
  今月のHealthier Choicesでは、カルビーのグラノーラ、ペプシコの栄養戦略の詳細、日本企業が展開するカフェインフリーのお茶を取り上げています
  
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• Who really makes the world’s fastest-growing private label foods?

  10-08-2026 16:25 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Why is private label growing globally?
  Private label products continue to gain market share as consumers seek value and retailers look for higher margins, greater control over supply chains and stronger differentiation from competitors. In some Western European markets, private label now accounts for more than half of supermarket sales.Where are private label products made?
  Most private label manufacturing remains close to end markets, particularly in the US and Europe, where domestic suppliers
  
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• Functional drinks boom, but can brands prove they actually work?

  10-08-2026 15:41 via foodnavigator.com
  
  What are functional drinks?
  Functional drinks are beverages designed to provide benefits beyond hydration, such as supporting gut health, energy, recovery, relaxation, immunity or cognitive performance. Popular categories include protein drinks, electrolyte beverages, probiotic and prebiotic products, and drinks containing vitamins, minerals, adaptogens or nootropics.Why is the market growing?
  Consumers increasingly view wellness as a daily priority and are looking for convenient products that s
  
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• ジャパン フォーカス：アサヒの成長戦略、カルビーのパーソナライズド・ニュートリション、フードテックへの投資

  10-08-2026 15:38 via foodnavigator.com
  
  今月のJapan Focusでは、アサヒのビール隣接カテゴリーへの注力と東アフリカへの事業拡大、カルビーのパーソナライズド グラノーラ、フードテッ
  
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• Japan Focus: Asahi’s growth plans, Calbee on personalised nutrition, food tech investment, and more

  10-08-2026 15:34 via foodnavigator.com
  
  This edition features Asahi’s focus on its beer adjacent categories and East Africa expansion, Calbee’s personalised granola, government investment into food technology, and more.
  
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• Roughly 80% of US food products will be labeled GMO by 2028

  10-08-2026 15:24 via foodnavigator.com
  
  A federal court ordered the USDA to rewrite its GMO labeling rules by Jan. 1, 2028, closing loopholes for highly processed foods and QR code disclosures.
  
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• Walmart to deploy 90 million Wiliot IoT tags by end of 2026

  10-08-2026 15:21 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Discover how Wiliot's battery-free IoT tags and AI technology are helping Walmart monitor grocery supply chains, tracking temperature for perishables nationwide.
  
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• ミドルイースト フォーカス： Agthia社のFuell、イラン・米国間の対立、UAEのNutri-Mark

  10-08-2026 15:21 via foodnavigator.com
  
  今月のMiddle East Focusでは、Agthia社のデーツを使ったFuell、イラン・米国間の対立と食料品価格、UAEのNutri-Markのデジタル化を取り上げています
  
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• The future of impulse shopping

  10-08-2026 15:17 via foodnavigator.com
  
  NielsenIQ explains in this episode of FoodNavigator-USA’s Soup-To-Nuts podcast how AI, social commerce, digital merchandising and faster fulfillment are reshaping impulse shopping online and in stores despite GLP-1s and inflation.
  
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• サイエンス ショート：極東のフードテック状況、スマートラベル、ヘルシーエイジング

  10-08-2026 15:16 via foodnavigator.com
  
  今月のScience Shortsでは、極東のフードテック、スマートラベル、ヘルシーエイジングを取り上げています。
  
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• Georgina Hayden’s quick and easy recipe for spiced sticky chicken with plums and pancakes

  10-08-2026 14:00
  A quick, takeaway-style chicken dish full of spice and flavour, with a homemade plum sauce, to serve with pancakes or riceI have a real aversion to the term “fakeaway”. I don’t know why. But as much as I resist the terminology, I guess it’s exactly what this dish is – it’s 100% based on and inspired by a Chinese takeaway classic: crispy duck pancakes. A real people pleaser, and something my girls adore. Making this with pan-fried chicken takes next to no time
  
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• Riffing on classic British comfort food

  10-08-2026 13:11
  Jimi Famurewa, restaurant critic and food journalist, travels to Edinburgh, London and Manchester eating at the female-fronted cafes and bistros reviving regional comfort food favourites, passed down through generations. Starting with soda bread and a fry-up cooked by Irish-born owner Claire Hanrahan at her bistro Norah, named after her late grandmother. Onwards to Bara, where Cecily Dalladay and Zoë Heimann are celebrating the Welsh ingredients they grew up with and feed Jimi a hearty Caer
  
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• Baobab: A multi-purpose functional powerhouse continues to grow

  10-08-2026 10:27 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Baobab, which originates in Africa, has been consumed for thousands of years. But now, it is gaining popularity as a functional ingredient, due to its density in vitamin C, its gut health credentials, and its versatility.
  
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• GLP-1s could be linked to more than 150 deaths

  10-08-2026 10:26 via foodnavigator.com
  
  GLP-1 drugs including semaglutide, liraglutide and tirzepatide may be linked to more than 150 deaths and thousands of adverse reactions, according to the UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), specifically data collected by its Yellow Card biobank. Alongside deaths, the drugs are suspected of having been linked to gastrointestinal symptoms, psychiatric disorders and nervous system disorders.
  
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• Could soaring whey prices make infant formula even more expensive?

  10-08-2026 09:20 via foodnavigator.com
  
  The price of whey is still rising. How much could this affect the production of baby formula, which often uses whey as several key nutrients for babies are contained within it?
  
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• Broth, tart and salad: Kirk Haworth’s vegan tomato recipes for summer

  10-08-2026 07:00
  A smoky tomato broth, a grilled peach, tomato and almond ‘ricotta’ salad scattered with roast almonds, and a sparky tomato tarte tatinAugust is peak tomato season. This most versatile of fruits can be put to just about any use, from raw to slow-cooked and from oven- or sun-dried to desserts (believe it or not, they go incredibly well with summer berries, especially strawberries and raspberries). Not only that, but tomatoes have high glutamate levels that rise even further as they rip
  
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• How to cook the perfect apricot galette – recipe | Felicity Cloake's how to make the perfect …

  09-08-2026 14:00
  A free-form fruit tart that’s easy to throw together with whatever seasonal fruit you have to handThe galette takes its name from the pebble it’s said to resemble – as Elizabeth David observes, it takes many forms, all of them round and flat. For me the word conjures the buckwheat pancakes of Brittany while French friends, in a quick straw poll, tend to think first of the frangipane-stuffed puff pastry galette de rois served at Epiphany, with one vote for a buttery Breton biscu
  
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• Bullgogi, Manchester M1: ‘Highly decent, amenable, human-free dining’ – restaurant review

  09-08-2026 07:00
  Bullgogi’s largely automated hospitality will either delight or horrify you, but the food is seriousBullgogi, a whopping new interactive multiscreen Korean restaurant in Manchester’s Piccadilly Plaza, has arrived, heralding the end of traditional hospitality – again. It’s the UK’s largest Korean barbecue restaurant – 165 covers, traditional tabletop grills at every booth – but has no servers with notepads, just screens. Your gyeran jjim, your dolsot bibi
  
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• ‘Lip-smackingly sour’: the best (and worst) supermarket cottage cheeses, tasted and rated

  08-08-2026 14:00
  Creamy, high-protein and all over our socials, cottage cheese is having a moment. We test the best …• The best supermarket vine tomatoesWhen I was growing up, cottage cheese was tasteless and mostly only eaten by dieters. Its recent revival in the UK, most likely driven by social media, has similar health reasons at its root – the current protein obsession in gym bros and weight watchers alike – but cottage cheese has become cool. The flavourless squeaky varieties of yest
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for Limmat’s apple cake | Meera Sodha recipes

  08-08-2026 07:00
  With its sweet, caramelised edge and soft, creamy apple centre, you’ll be thinking about this cake for months after the first biteFor better or for worse (definitely for worse), this column is one-way. If we could talk, I’d ask you about the most mindblowing things you’ve eaten in your wild and precious life (feel free to use the comments). This year, for me, it was chef Lili’s apple cake at her restaurant, Limmat in Marseille. I’ve never had anything like it: a cak
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Half Cut Market’s peaches & cream – recipe | The good mixer

  07-08-2026 14:00
  
  A frozen piña colada-style boozy drink/dessertA frozen drink and a classic dessert all rolled into one. Instead of piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, we’re whipping up these and manifesting a sunny summer.Jayma Voorheis, general manager, Half Cut Market, London N7 Continue reading...
  
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• Jimi Famurewa’s deli-style chilli, chicken and parm meatball sandwiches – recipe

  07-08-2026 10:37
  New Guardian Food show FEED with Jimi Famurewa travels the UK in search of its favourite food trends. This epic ciabatta melt is Jimi’s ode to the American-Italian subThis recipe combines the influence of an enjoyably fiery Calabrian chilli chicken parm sandwich I had at Bada Bing in Manchester and the meatball sub I enjoyed at Belly of the Beast in Newcastle.The key adaptations here are the flattening of the meatballs to sit snugly in the ciabatta; the smoked garlic butter that gives you
  
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• Why chocolate goes wrong in baking

  07-08-2026 09:50 via bakeryandsnacks.com
  
  Chocolate leakage isn't always an ingredient problem. Discover why process consistency, chocolate batons and production performance matter as much as specification in modern bakery manufacturing.
  
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• Mars-Kellanova: What Brussels really decided about brand power

  07-08-2026 09:49 via bakeryandsnacks.com
  
  The European Commission's full Mars-Kellanova merger ruling reveals why regulators rejected concerns over brand power and retailer leverage – and what the decision means for future food and snack industry acquisitions.
  
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• WK Kellogg Co to cut artificial dyes and BHT a year ahead of schedule

  07-08-2026 09:34 via foodnavigator.com
  
  WK Kellogg says new recipes free of controversial food colorants will be introduced across its cereal portfolio, including flagship Froot Loops and Apple Jacks brands, later this year.
  
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• Celsius rocked by earnings miss as Pepsi shift backfires

  07-08-2026 09:27 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Celsius Holdings missed Q2 earnings estimates as its PepsiCo integration of Alani Nu and Rockstar caused growing pains. Read about the $300M stock buyback.
  
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• Helen Goh’s giant shortcake with summer fruits and vanilla cream – recipe | The sweet spot

  07-08-2026 07:00
  A jamboree of juicy stone fruit and summer berries with a crusty, sugary top brings a riot of textures and colour to your dessert tableA giant American-style shortcake is one of summer’s great celebrations: tender, buttery shortcake, softly whipped cream and an extravagant tumble of fruit. Rather than prescribing a single combination, I like to let the market decide. Choose whatever looks and smells best: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, greengages, apricots, cherries,
  
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• Trend Tracker: Clean label, GLP-1 and cultivated meat

  07-08-2026 04:33 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Clean label, GLP-1 and cultivated meat feature in this edition of Trend Tracker
  
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• Germany first EU country to launch Wegovy oral GLP-1

  06-08-2026 18:19 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Germany will be the first EU market to launch Novo Nordisk's Wegovy pill in September, with further European rollouts planned in late 2026.
  
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• Nestlé breaks with 60 years of After Eight tradition

  06-08-2026 17:57 via confectionerynews.com
  
  Nestlé is expanding After Eight beyond Mint for the first time in over 60 years, launching Caramel, Orange and Raspberry flavours alongside a brand refresh.
  
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