All Novel foods articles
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Analysis & Features
How functional food is targeting brain health and wellness
A wave of innovation is hitting the shelves targeting cognitive function. For workers burned out by ‘hustle culture’, the messaging is spot on. But do brands risk facing a legal minefield?
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Promotional Features
Shoppers are getting less thrifty, so what can brands expect in 2025?
Consumers are becoming less inclined to make special efforts to curb their grocery spending, a new study of 1,000 UK consumers finds.
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News
Turmeric Co disputes FSA’s ashwagandha novel food query
The outcome could set a ‘significant precedent’ for food and drink companies using ashwagandha in products
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Category Report
CBD trends 2024: Can CBD finally take off?
The FSA’s positive safety assessment is a welcome boost to CBD. Will shelves soon be flooded with legally compliant products?
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News
Lab-grown steaks and cricket salads could replace Sunday roasts by 2054, Co-op predicts
Cricket salads, English olives and Surrey-grown avocados – experts predict what our meals will look like in 30 years
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Analysis & Features
Eight great British food tech startups and scaleups about to change the world
The UK is home to a raft of innovative startups vying to create the next global game-changer in food technology
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Comment & Opinion
Why small-time kelp is making UK food and drink gains
New AI data shows the use of seaweed in NPD food and drink launches is on the up
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News
Yeast-made palm oil biotech company secures £2.5m funding boost
Its go-to-market product is an equivalent to high oleic palm oil, with an equivalent nutritional and fatty acid composition
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Analysis & Features
How the functional shroom is ready to boom
Energy-boosting mushroom drinks are taking off among the US wellness crowd as an alternative to or supplement in coffee. Will the use of these adaptogens catch on here?
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News
FSA urges fast-track approval for lab-grown meat and insect products
Under the proposals, the FSA plans to use the approval of regulators in other countries as grounds to let products come to the market
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Comment & Opinion
Gross? How bureaucracy is creeping into the UK’s edible insect opportunity
Finally, eating insects is trendy again. Or was it ever?
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Comment & Opinion
FSA causes confusion with its new CBD guidance… again
The maximum daily dosage has suddenly and unexpectedly been reduced from 70mg to just 10mg
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News
New demands for legal clarity on CBD sales
The #SaveOurCBD campaign warned further delays to regulation would cause “an existential threat” to producers
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Analysis & Features
How the FSA's novel foods rule could shake up the road to bug burgers
The FSA has mooted a number of new ideas in its regime review
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News
Government mulls fast-track for lab-grown meat approval
It comes amid fears that existing restrictions on so-called novel foods are holding back firms from investing in solutions to the environmental and hunger crisis
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Comment & Opinion
Europe must speed up the route to market for novel food technologies
Food innovations are crucial to feeding a growing population in a healthy and sustainable manner, says Sue Garfitt, CEO of The Protein Brewery
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News
Chill Brands raises £2.6m to develop CBD vapes
International CBD group Chill Brands said the money would also fund a marketing drive for its e-commerce site
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News
Mola and Pause add CBD soft drinks under novel foods exemption
It comes as thousands of CBD novel food applications are set to be validated by the FSA
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Analysis & Features
Should the FSA standardise the safe daily CBD dosage?
The Food Standards Agency seems unlikely to recommend specific dosage levels
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News
FSA set to validate thousands of CBD products
Groups responsible for half of the CBD public list confirm an update is imminent