Ingredients

Kerry Ingredients & Flavours is looking to enhance the flavour of buttery biscuits with its new Beatreme range. The Irish supplier of food ingredients has developed the line, which includes cream, butter and cultured dairy, and has been created by naturally culturing fresh milk solids.

Healthy oil from Larchwood

Larchwood Foods' new rapeseed oil line offers bakers a high-quality yet cost-effective option for their products, said the firm.

Report

The tide of rising ingredients costs could finally be turning for food manufacturers, according to Lee Linthicum, global head of food research at Euromonitor International.

Seed pricing

Pine nuts:

Raw material prices in China have continued to climb and we are now, in sterling terms at least, some 20% higher than at the end of 2011. A disappointing Chinese crop set against hugely strong demand looks set to squeeze this market in 2012. Any respite from the new crop at the end of the calendar year cannot come soon enough. Prices are likely to climb further for the rest of this year.

April showers bring welcome relief for wheat

Heavy rainfall in April has alleviated immediate concerns about the impact of the sustained dry weather on the UK's wheat crop, although large swathes of England remain in drought.

Morrisons listings for Bacheldre

Bacheldre Watermill has secured listings for six of its lines in 383 Morrisons stores.

BBC radio show reviews egg supply

BBC Radio 4 presenter Sheila Dillon has assessed the supply of eggs in the UK following the European Union’s decision to ban battery cages.

GM plea to protesters

Scientists developing genetically modified (GM) wheat have asked campaigners not to damage crops at a trial at Rothamsted Research.

Real Bread Campaign steps up anti-GM wheat protest

By Samantha Edwards – 25 April, 2012

The Real Bread Campaign has delivered a pledge to the government from more than 350 bakers, millers, farmers and consumers not to sell or buy GM wheat.