Darren Wood rounds up the latest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Iced tea consumption ‘over 35bn litres in 2015’, new report says, UK vending businesses told to prepare for release of new £1 coin and Brits ‘eat 2,700 sausages and Wincanton and Majestic Wine in new distribution arrangement

Marialuisa Ferro head of Gryö UK talks about using alternative less expensive proteins such as flour made from edible insects such as crickets. The company’s dried fruit bars are nutrient dense and importantly taste good with flavours such as dark chocolate and pistachio, apricot and thyme and ginger and fig.  Manufactured in Loir et Cher and supported by the Food Val de Loire agrifood cluste in southern France, they already have won over a number of gourmets and now have an eye on the export market.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Lyle’s Golden Syrup to return to TV with first advert in 25 years, Energy coffee Rocket Fuel fires rocket into space in new campaign and Brits ‘eat 2,700 sausages and 3,200 rashers of bacon’ in their life.

Bottled water is a booming industry, in the United States alone sales have risen by over 400% in the past five years. There's no doubt about its appeal, it's calorie free, refreshing and healthier than sugar filled fizzy drinks. To talk about the bottled water category and its growth is FoodBev.com news editor Alex Clere and Patrick Turpin, chief executive officer of deep ocean water company Kona Deep.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Yili pays $680m for 37% stake in organic milk producer Shengmu, BrewDog launches Abstrakt line of beers in Beatson Clark bottlesand Bio-tiful Dairy announces new listing with Boots for kefir drinks

KIND was born 12 years ago, in the US, by pioneering social entrepreneur, Daniel Lubetzky with a mission to make the world a little kinder; one snack and one act at a time. 

In 10 short years, Daniel had not only created and established a healthy snack bar category, but had built a $1bn business - taking America by storm.

Darren Wood spoke with Daniel to talk about the category growth and lessons he learned when starting up a new company.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top news stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Nestlé Professional develops ‘richer, darker’ Arabica coffee, Mondelēz India launches Cadbury Bournvita tiffin packsand Alland & Robert to present range of acacia fibres at Hi Europe.

Ann Woods, product development manager for Forest Feast, explains growing demand for power-packed snacking with protein-rich Acti-Snack containing dried cherries, walnuts, cacao nibs and oven roasted cashews. The company has a provenance-led Street Food range including kerala cashew and coconut spice; Sri Lanka kandy mix of raisins, pineapple, toasted coconut and roasted almonds; and a Louisiana hickory barbecue mix. 

Nico Riggio – CEO and founder of Blissimo, based in São Paulo, Brazil – talks about the move to lower calorie juice blends with flavours such as coconut and banana, mango and orange and some new coffee variants too.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: ‘Changing the UK diet – reducing dependence on sugar’, Low-sugar frozen yogurt brand Only By Nature debuts first ice cream and Huhtamaki to set up new flexible packaging units in Egypt and India

Alex Clere rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Blue Bunny Ice Cream's investment in modernisation, Mondelēz's female empowerment programme reviewed, and Nestlé relaunches Special.T

Alex Clere rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Gay Lea Foods buys Canadian butter maker Stirling Creamery, Beck's develops a novel bottle-top camera, and Arla Foods launches a range of fat-free quark in the UK

Alex Clere rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Pizza Hut's pizza-ordering tattoo, Sabelli's deal for mozzarella producer Trevisanalat, and Iceland's video on-demand partnership with vlogging platform Channel Mum

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Fonterra Milk for Schools ‘boosts dairy consumption’, report says, Tesco to significantly expand craft beer range in Express stores and World Beverage Innovation Awards 2016 finalists announced

Bottled water sales have risen by over 300% over the past 5 years. There's no doubt about its appeal, it's calorie free, refreshing and healthier than fizzy sugary drinks.

Darren Wood talks about the bottled water industry and its growth with Foodbev.com news editor Alex Clere and Kona Deep Chief Executive Officer Patrick Turpin.

Darren Wood rounds up the latest news in the world of food and beverages, including: PepsiCo outlining ambitious plan to cut sugar by two-thirds, British Water Cooler Association setting out 5 sustainability actions and Ball packaging Belgian chocolates in beverage can for first time

Alex Clere rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Kellogg acquires Parati's controlling shareholder, GEA unveils new service concept and the pizza made entirely from chocolate.

Alex Clere rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Unilever's price row with Tesco, Asahi completes acquisition of Miller Brands UK, and Malibu develops cup that can order a drink for you

Alex Clere rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Amazon reportedly set to open convenience stores, Stock Spirits acquires three Czech alcohol brands, and the Australian company developing HPP baby food

Alex Clere rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Coca-Cola acquires Anheuser-Busch's stake in Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, private-label soft drinks record 'mixed' growth, and Ikea launches coffee that is both organic and UTZ-certified

Jessica Gay rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Mondelēz India adds premium chocolate countline Cadbury Fuse, Beneo opens Indian subsidiary to cater to ‘fast-growing’ market, Mars buys Berkshire Hathaway’s stake in Wrigley to set up merger.

Food and beverage accelerators can be useful to entrepreneurs who are looking to move their start-ups forward. In addition to mentorship and training, many accelerators will offer funding, co-working space, and introductions to angels and venture capitalists that are looking to fund businesses.

In part one of this three part series Darren Wood spoke with Andrew Ive managing director of Food X, Tara Mei of Kitchen Table Project and Simon Lacey of Grocery Accelerator to talk about the role of accelerators with new businesses and what is being looked for in a start-up.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Arjuna Natural Extracts to launch gooseberry extract ingredient, Pankaboard unveils new folding cartonboard box for beverages and Thomson & Scott creates ‘skinny’ prosecco with half the sugar.

Reinvent Life Sciences was established in July 2014 with a vision to innovate better healthcare solutions for the masses. 

Kangaroo Bounce Back is a premium after-party replenishment mix. It is a unique blend of amino acids, vitamins, electrolytes and herbs which help you rehydrate, revitalise and recover. 

After extensive research and analysis, this unique formulation has been scientifically prepared to make sure the body gets the healthy support it needs to revitalise the body.

 Claire Phoenix spoke with founder and chief executive officer Dhruv Trivedi to talk about their new drink concept called Kangaroo Bounce Back.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages including: Lack of SME exporters costs UK industry £141bn, research finds, Constellation Brands acquires US distiller High West for $160m and DuPont Nutrition & Health adds cultures for soft-ripened cheese

Kinomi, the term for nuts in Japanese, is a range of flavoured roasted nuts created by Hiromi Stone who was born in Japan but raised overseas.

Hiromi uses a base coating of Japanese flavours such as soya sauce, sake and kombu.

Claire Phoenix spoke with Hiromi about the product including where the nuts and almonds are sourced from and their choice of packaging.

Atlantic Rain was set up to take advantage of the current gap in the European market of no companies producing potable bottled rainwater.

Feeling there was an opportunity to exploit Ireland’s geographical position, where Atlantic fronts can bring in as much as 60 inches of rain to the west or Ireland per annum, to produce a unique product that uses this natural and abundant resource.

Atlantic Rain plans to produce still and sparkling versions in bespoke 750 and 250ml glass bottles and market it as a premium product. Company director Paul O'Flynn spoke with Claire Phoenix at the Zenith Springboard event to find out more.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top news stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Carlsberg unveils new green fiber bottle design, EHL Ingredients to launch new blends and Coca-Cola announces change to US refranchising deal