Author: Sean Miller

Shoppers could face food shortages this summer if it fails to rain in the next fortnight, experts have warned. Farmers are hoping for rain – and lots of it – to save crops that were planted early to take advantage of the higher than usual temperatures before Easter. Those crops which rely on shallow and…
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Provexis is drawing closer to the commercialisation of many of its functional food ingredients, chief executive Stephen Moon told Food Manufacture. The company’s work with the Institute of Food Research (IFR), near Norwich, to extract high levels of isothiocyanates, which combat inflammation, from rocket and broccoli, had led to “large scale commercial collaboration”, said Moon.…
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