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• Tamal Ray’s recipe for boiled egg curry

  25-02-2023 11:00
  
  A quick, filling midweek meal you can make from economical store-cupboard ingredientsWhen I was growing up, this traditional Bengali curry was our go-to store-cupboard dish – the thing we made when there wasn’t any decent fish at the market or we’d forgotten to defrost some chicken. It was made with ingredients we always had and I used to think of it as the poor cousin of the richer meat dishes we had at other times. Nowadays, I remember it far more fondly: a gentle, nutritious
  
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• Nestlé strips ‘chocolate’ from iconic bars as cocoa costs soar

  11-12-2025 09:47 via confectionerynews.com
  
  Nestlé has dropped the word ‘chocolate’ from Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband after reformulating recipes to reduce cocoa content amid rising costs. Discover why this change matters, its impact on the confectionery industry, and similar examples from other brands.
  
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• The single biggest food trend for 2026 revealed

  11-12-2025 09:46 via foodnavigator.com
  
  The article explores the dominant food trend projected for 2026: the continued rise of protein-enhanced products, including innovative items like protein sodas and functional "protein-plus" foods. Despite predictions of a more balanced diet by 2030, protein remains a key focus globally, with significant growth opportunities, especially in Asia. The piece highlights insights from ingredient experts and discusses the intersection of protein with functional food trends, emphasizing the market's ong
  
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• Is the world facing a feta shortage?

  10-12-2025 14:55 via dairyreporter.com
  
  A sheep and goat pox outbreak in Greece has culled 420,000 animals, risking feta production and global supply of the country’s prized ‘white gold’.
  
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• Alternative cocoa: Ways confectionery’s most under-threat ingredient is being replaced

  10-12-2025 14:49 via foodnavigator.com
  
  A deep dive into how confectionery makers are responding to the ongoing cocoa crisis. From rising prices and supply shortages to innovative cocoa-saving solutions, we explore how major players and ingredient suppliers are using functional fats, natural extracts, and flavour-boosting technologies to replicate cocoa’s taste and performance—helping manufacturers stay resilient amid market volatility.
  
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• How to use a spent tea bag to make a boozy, fruity treat – recipe | Waste not

  10-12-2025 14:00
  Save a used teabag to flavour dried fruit, then just add whisky for a boozy festive treatA jar of tea-soaked prunes with a cheeky splash of whisky is the gift you never knew you needed. Sticky, sweet and complex, these boozy treats are wonderful spooned over rice pudding, porridge, yoghurt, ice-cream or even panna cotta.Don’t waste a fresh tea bag, though – enjoy a cuppa first, then use the spent one to infuse the prunes overnight. Earl grey adds fragrant, citrus notes, builders&rsqu
  
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• Cocoa, coffee, and wine won’t survive with climate cooling alone

  10-12-2025 13:56 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Climate cooling alone won’t save cocoa, coffee and wine crops. Discover why geoengineering falls short and what food and beverage industries must do next.
  
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• Is the commodity crisis really turning a corner?

  10-12-2025 11:01 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Commodities like cocoa, coffee and sugar have been under pressure for the past two years. But with cocoa and coffee prices dropping significantly, and coffee prices predicted to fall, could the commodity crisis be turning a corner?
  
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• GLP-1 has changed the snack game: Here’s how to win it back

  10-12-2025 09:52 via bakeryandsnacks.com
  
  GLP-1 users are rewriting the rules of appetite, texture and indulgence. Tate & Lyle’s latest research shows exactly where producers are missing the moment.
  
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• Christmas food gifts: Gurdeep Loyal’s recipes for Mexican-spiced brittle and savoury pinwheels

  10-12-2025 07:00
  Sweet, Mexican-inspired seed and salted spice brittle, and super-savoury XO sauce-laced cheesy pinwheel cookiesEdible Christmas gifts are a great excuse to get experimental with global flavours. For spice lovers, this moreish Mexican brittle, which is inspired by salsa macha (a delicious chilli-crunch), is sweet, salty, smoky, crunchy and has hints of anise. Then, for savoury lovers, some cheesy pinwheel cookies enlivened with XO sauce. XO is a deeply umami condiment from Hong Kong made from dri
  
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• Top 10 food and beverage trends for 2026

  09-12-2025 14:07 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Discover the top 10 food and beverage trends for 2026. From powerhouse protein and gut health to authentic plant-based, mindful eating, and sustainable choices.
  
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• Cultivated meat guidance released in UK: 4 key takeaways

  09-12-2025 09:45 via foodnavigator.com
  
  The UK has released guidance on the development of cultivated meat. How will this affect businesses?
  
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• Mars-Kellanova merger “approved unconditionally”

  09-12-2025 08:52 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Mars gains EU approval for €31bn Kellanova merger, expanding its snacking empire and promising growth, innovation, and more billion-dollar brands.
  
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• Festive treats: Adriann Ramirez’s recipes for pumpkin loaf and gingerbread cookies

  09-12-2025 07:00
  Two easy bakes to share or gift: soft and peppery gingerbread cookies and a ginger and pumpkin loaf with spiced lemon icingAs a self-proclaimed America’s sweetheart (Julia Roberts isn’t using that title any more, is she?) who moved to the UK nearly 10 years ago, there are a few British traditions and customs that I have adopted, especially around Christmas time. However, there are also a few American ones that I hold on to staunchly: one is the pronunciation of “aluminum”
  
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• CRISPR crops: The next frontier for food security?

  08-12-2025 17:27 via foodnavigator.com
  
  CRISPR, the gene-editing technology which won its creators the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is most well-known for its potential for human genes. But it can also be used to enhance food security: by heightening crop resilience to disease and drought, improving nutritional density, and making production more efficient.
  
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• Inside the rise of the world’s biggest ice cream company

  08-12-2025 11:55 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Unilever exits ice cream as TMICC launches as world’s largest ice cream company with €7.9bn revenue, 21% market share, and major UK investment to boost growth.
  
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• Brain boom: 3 ingredients boosting cognitive health

  08-12-2025 10:21 via foodnavigator.com
  
  At Food Ingredients Europe in Paris, we found that the trend in functional ingredients for brain health is booming. Cognitive health ingredients like magnesium, DHA and L-theanine are being used to boost cognitive health among consumers.
  
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• Nutcracker stocking fillers: Brian Levy’s recipe for sugar plum and coffee cookies | The sweet spot

  08-12-2025 07:00
  A rich, buttery crumb, a hint of bittersweet coffee, a spot of icing and a cherry on top … better gift them before you scoff themThese festive cookies are inspired by The Nutcracker’s Land of Sweets sequence, in which coffee and sugar plums are two of the flavours used to conjure a fanciful world of decadent diversion. Anything from a hard candy to a candied fruit can qualify as a “sugar plum” and, in the case of these cookies, the sugar plum is represented by the amaren
  
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• Train plan derailed by messy humans | Brief letters

  07-12-2025 17:43
  No more ‘ghost’ trains | Country diary | Patriotic pudding | Fifa peace prize | Inaptly named buildingsHow disappointing that the rail regulator has caved in to the moaning minnies and reinstated the 7am Manchester to London as a passenger service (‘People had forgotten about it’: onboard the 7am Manchester-London train service saved from axe, 4 December). Here was a brilliant idea being piloted before adoption across the rail network. Gone now is the dream of an efficien
  
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• How to make the perfect Dubai chocolate bar - recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect …

  07-12-2025 14:00
  The pistachio-crammed craze makes a superb gift. Our in-house perfectionist tries all the fiddly bits for you …If you’re asking what on earth chocolate has to do with a city with an average annual temperature of 28C, then you must have been stuck in the desert for the past three years. Because, since its creation in the UAE in 2022, apparently to satisfy chocolatier Sarah Hamouda’s pregnancy cravings for pistachio and pastry, this bar has taken over the world. Though food (amo
  
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• The ultimate unsung superfood: 17 delicious ways with cabbage – from kimchi to pasta to peanut butter noodles

  07-12-2025 11:00
  Over the last 50 years, cabbage consumption in Britain has declined 80%. But it’s versatile, full of vitamins, and perfect on a winter night. Here’s how to make the most of itIt’s not good news: despite a lot of messaging about healthy eating, Britons consume 12% less vegetables per week than they did in 1974, when the government’s Family Food survey began. And while the consumption of some specific vegetables – courgettes, say – has risen over the past 50 yea
  
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• Christmas dinner in a restaurant or kitchen carnage at home?

  07-12-2025 07:00
  After several attempts at eating ‘out’, I’m still on the fenceChristmas dinner? At home or in a restaurant? It’s at this juncture of the year, with Christmas dinner hurtling towards us, that you may well find yourself muttering: “Well, we could always go out!” Who could blame any home cook for wanting to shove this great burden on to someone else’s back, especially since every culinary TV show, magazine article and advertising break since mid-November ha
  
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• ‘A malevolent festive Jammie Dodger’: the best (and worst) supermarket mince pies, tasted and rated

  06-12-2025 14:00
  Who better to sort the mush from the lush than our in-house perfectionist Felicity Cloake and our resident baker Benjamina Ebuehi?• The best Christmas drinks, from gingerbread rum to mulled roseAccording to an informal survey of my nearest and occasionally dearest, many younger Britons believe that they don’t like mince pies. It’s a claim that I always counter annoyingly with: “No, you just haven’t had a good one”, before forcing a homemade version, all crumbly
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for Friede’s grandma’s zimtsterne | Meera Sodha recipes

  06-12-2025 07:00
  When you try these festive, chewy German almond biscuits, you’ll see why people have kept making and gifting them at Christmas for more than 500 yearsThe thing I love most about these chewy, crisp, star-shaped, cinnamon-and-almond Christmas biscuits from Germany is that they date back to the 1500s. Which, much like spotting Mars in the night sky or visiting the pyramids of Egypt, makes me feel hugely insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but simultaneously awe-inspired by the power
  
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• Soaring protein demand powers FrieslandCampina’s strategic expansion

  05-12-2025 18:06 via dairyreporter.com
  
  FrieslandCampina Ingredients acquires Wisconsin Whey Protein in a landmark deal, expanding US presence and global whey protein capacity to capitalize on booming demand for high-protein products, RTDs, and performance nutrition.
  
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• ‘Best eaten with a hangover’: the best (and worst) supermarket Christmas crisps, tasted and rated

  05-12-2025 18:00
  ’Tis the season for novelty crisps – from the delicious to the downright deranged. Crisp-addict Ravinder Bhogal crunched through the lot to find the festive flavours worth snacking on• The best Christmas sandwiches in 2025Christmas is a time to concentrate on what really matters – snacks – and in my house, it’s crisps that get top billing. They are a party in a bag, ideal paired with a glass of something sparkling or a cocktail, and wonderful swiped through a d
  
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• Christmas mixers: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for fire cider and spiced cocktail syrup

  05-12-2025 17:00
  A spiced syrup to add festive aromas to a mezcal-laced take on the negroni and a spicy, tangy aromatic cider to match a whole host of mixersDespite being known for shaking a cocktail on Instagram now and again, very little will induce me to last-minute cocktailery if I am entertaining a serious number of guests. However, a good drinks recipe that you can prep in advance is a lovely thing to dazzle your friends with and to gift over Christmas. With or without alcohol, this pair look good and tast
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Humble Chicken’s yuzu vesper – recipe | The good mixer

  05-12-2025 14:00
  Gin and Japanese vodka combine with jasmine tea in a martini-style pre-mix that you could even gift at ChristmasStore this batch cocktail in a glass bottle in the fridge, so it’s ice-cold and ready to go whenever the need arises over the festive period; alternatively, bottle and gift it to a loved one or friend. It’s a citrussy, martini-style union of sake from Peckham, Japanese vodka and London dry gin.Aidan Monk, restaurant and beverage manager, Humble Chicken, London W1 Continue r
  
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• Helen Goh’s recipe for edible Christmas baubles | The sweet spot

  05-12-2025 07:00
  Chewy, marshmallow-coated Rice Krispie baubles that are as fun to make as they are to giftThese edible baubles make a joyful addition to the Christmas table or tree. Soft, chewy, marshmallow-coated Rice Krispies are studded with pistachios and cranberries, chocolate and ginger, or peppermint candy cane; they’re as fun to make as they are to eat, and they make a perfect little gift. To add a ribbon for hanging, cut small lengths of ribbon, then loop and knot the ends. Push the knotted end g
  
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• Pork imports banned as swine fever rips through Spain

  04-12-2025 17:34 via foodnavigator.com
  
  African swine fever is ripping through Spain, with the army deployed to contain the outbreak. Bans from the UK and China have caused supplies of certain pork products to dwindle on supermarket shelves.
  
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