Foods / beverages
Danone to buy US organic foods producer WhiteWave Foods Co for $10.4 bn
08 Jul 2016
French yoghurt giant Danone SA, yesterday struck a deal to buy US organic foods producer WhiteWave Foods in a bid to double the size of its business in the US
US chocolate major Hershey rejects $23-bn takeover bid from Mondelez
01 Jul 2016
US chocolate and confectionery major Hershey Co yesterday rejected a $23-billion unsolicited takeover bid by Mondelez International Inc without assigning any reason for it
100 Nobel winners call on Greenpeace to halt anti-Golden Rice campaign
30 Jun 2016
Golden Rice was designed as a solution to vitamin A deficiency, suffered by around 250 million people globally, including 40 per cent of the children under 5 in the developing world
Chocolate that melts in your mouth, but not on your hips
28 Jun 2016
Were it not for the high fat content, we’d be eating chocolate-covered everything' in a new discovery scientists have found a way to use an electric field to reduce fat in liquid chocolate during the manufacturing process