Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: American sweetener company launches new stevia range in UK, JM Smucker to buy Conagra Brands’ Wesson oils for $285m and Non-EU exports help UK achieve record level of first-quarter trade

Rousselot's Peptan collagen peptides is a unique bioactive protein that can be used in many applications, from functional foods and drinks to protein bars, anti-ageing skin solutions and dietary supplements.

Dr. Elke De Clerck from Rousselot explained how using Peptan can offer a wide range of reformulation functionalities to meet innovation and formulation needs. 

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Symrise agrees to purchase UK fruit juice supplier Cobell, Nestlé’s Maggi commits to ‘more familiar’ ingredient lists by 2020 and Cargill creates dairy texturiser from 100% cultivated seaweed

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Campbell’s invests $10m in meal kit upstart Chef’d, Lavazza acquires Canadian coffee roaster Kicking Horse and Italy ‘eating 10% less pasta’ as consumers turn backs on carbs

DSM's 3C technology has been designed to create a high-concentrate omega-3 helping to eliminate barriers associated with the consumption of omega-3 supplements. 

Maria Pavlidou, head of communications human nutrition and health for DSM, told FoodBev Media: "The 3C technology allows us to create a much smaller capsule size. Traditionally for example to consume 500mg of omega-3 you would have to consume two really big capsules.

"From a usage study we conducted last year we know that a barrier for consumers to enter the omega-3 market is the capsule size, so we believe with this technology we can attract more consumers."

Macchia Valley's new coffee and espresso machine has been described as the 'most silent coffee machine' for the workplace.

Containing a sleek design made from stainless steel while featuring a colour touchscreen interface, the Nevis has two bean holders each with a capacity of 1kg and a 4 litre water tank. 

Macchia Valley sales director, Chris Rapp said: "We have found smart ways to bumper and cover internally the grinding motors

"We feel that today in the 21st century there's no need for a loud coffee machine in the workplace."

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: UAE to start taxing fizzy drinks at 50% and energy drinks at 100%,Lactalis agrees to acquire German milk processor Omira and Hollywood actor DiCaprio invests in chickpea snack brand Hippeas

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Danone invests $25m to expand Ghanaian subsidiary Fan Milk, Orkla Food Ingredients partners on acrylamide-reducing yeast and Nestlé Waters invests $6m in ‘closing the US recycling gap’

Albert McQuaid of Kerry talks about the company's new plant protein solution, ProDiem optimised for nutrition, taste and texture. In this interview, McQuaid mentions about the challenges when it comes to taste and how Kerry's flavour masking technology addressed the grainy texture traditionally associated with plant proteins.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Nestlé China unveils milk powder for brain response and memory, study says, Australia’s craft beer body shuns conglomerates with rule change and Unilever extends dairy-free Flora range with three new flavours

Stepan Lipid Nutrition's marinol is a naturally concentrated omega-3 triglycerides are used in clinical and infant nutritional products to promote cardiovascular and neurological health.

Hiskias Keizer senior scientist and project manager for the company spoke with Darren Wood about Marinol.

Julie Impérato marketing manager of Nexira spoke about its new all-natural ingredient, ID-alG made from brown seaweed extract.

Impérato explains that the weight management properties of ID-alG are due to its specific marine polyphenols content that block the activity of the two main digestive enzymes, lipase and amylase.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Dairy consumption ‘reduces risk of early menopause’, study says, Unilever extends dairy-free Flora range with three new flavours and British start-up to launch canned cocktails with craft positioning

Recognising the ever growing cross over between sports nutrition and consumer products, Glanbia Nutritionals has released Plant Warrior a superfood infusion for the sports nutrition market.

Dagmar Ortlepp, marketing manager at Glanbia Nutritionals spoke with FoodBev Media's Darren Wood about where the idea for the product came from and why the company decided to introduce this to the market.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Coca-Cola European Partners in switch to renewable energy in UK, Barilla microwave range makes pasta even more convenient and PureCircle ‘granted more stevia patents’ than any other company

Chris Lee managing director, global health and nutrition at Informa Exhibitions has singled out sports nutrition and vegetable protein products as major trends that will continue to rise.

Lee also mentions about what he believes were the most interesting aspects of Vitafoods 2017.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Fonterra invests $5m in upgrade at Malaysian milk powder factory,  Coors Light develops new can packaging with sun-activated ink and Mars in partnership to improve sustainability of its supply chain

Maarten Geertsen senior sales manager at FrieslandCampina speaks about the company's new protein waters.

Geertsen explains how the product is for overnight recovery highlighting how many of us believe that drinking as much protein as we can is good for us, which he says is 'absolutely not true'.

In the interview Geertsen also states how it has been difficult to keep the protein water transparent.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Anheuser-Busch to invest $2bn in US breweries over next 3 years,  Orkla acquires Danish organic and vegetarian business SR Food and Organic products ‘driving growth’ in Chinese infant formula – study

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Food and drink companies ‘going for growth despite Brexit’ – BDO,  2 Sisters Food Group invests in upgrade to ready meals plant and Major food companies back pilot nutrition scheme in Colombia

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Heineken launches low-calorie, zero-alcohol beer Heineken 0.0,  Chocolate giants including Mars and Unilever leads investment in US meal delivery service Sun Basket

Alex Clere takes a look at the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Dannon to invest $25m in major expansion at Ohio yogurt plant, leaner Diageo to invest more in marketing after cost-cutting drive, and Burger King and McDonald’s ‘in race’ to launch mobile payment

Alex Clere takes a look at the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Carlsberg still ‘in the hunt’ for Vietnam’s state-owned brewery, Heineken close to wholesale deal with Sligro in the Netherlands, and One Drinks launches range of ‘adventurous’ botanical infusions

Alex Clere rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Dean Foods takes minority stake in dairy-free player Good Karma, DSM to invest 'up to $50m' in vitamin partnership, and Premier Foods and Mondelēz extend Cadbury cake licence

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Heineken to buy out remaining stake in US’ Lagunitas Brewing,  ‘Occasional indulgence’ propels frozen food to steady growth and Starbucks faces legal action from independent over ‘unicorn latte’

Darren wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Anheuser-Busch takes over US craft beer maker Wicked Weed,  Kraft Heinz blames first-quarter slump on ‘lower consumption’ and Bombay Sapphire ‘stronger than absinthe’ recalled after blunder

Fahad Younas of Barracudos Drinks spoke to Claire Phoenix of his experience in launching Barracudos - a new vitamin water drink, containing 10g protein.

Packaged in PET in Lithuania and London he explains his plans to meet growing demand for lighter, healthier drinks, aimed at young active urban consumers.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Reckitt Benckiser getting closer to sale of food assets – reports,  Consumers find bottled water labels ‘confusing’, study says and FDA could drop restaurant calorie labelling after stalling yet again

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: US dairy industry ‘applauds’ plan for flavoured milk in schools,  PepsiCo invest $93m in beverage concentrates plant in Singapore and Heineken ends distribution tie-in with Coca-Cola Femsa in Brazil