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Quinta Quinoa is one of six finalists to compete for a food innovation award at the Global Food Summit
Quinta Quinoa is one of six global finalists – the only one from Canada – selected to compete for the People’s Choice Award at the Global Food Summit in Munich, Germany March 20-21. Quinta Quinoa founder Jamie Draves will share his journey…
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Canadian Grain Commission launches discussion on falling number and DON
As part of its grain grading modernization initiative, the Canadian Grain Commission invites grain sector stakeholders to provide input on whether falling number and deoxynivalenol (DON) should become official grain grading factors. Currently, falling number and DON are not official…
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Grand River Foods and Maple Lodge Farms first recipient of Ontario Chicken Innovation Award
Chicken Farmers of Ontario (CFO) announced the first recipient of the Ontario Chicken Innovation Award, co-applicants Grand River Foods and Maple Lodge Farms, who are collaborating to produce frozen, smoked chicken products using a proprietary process that is the first-of-its-kind…
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Advancement on the State of Salmon Aquaculture Technology Study
The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, in partnershipwith the Province of British Columbia and Sustainable Development Technologies Canada (SDTC) announced that a Study on the State of Salmon Aquaculture Technology has commenced. In December, the Government of Canada announced a…
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Annual Survey Reveals New Adventurous Ways Canadians Love Their Cereal
In celebration of National Cereal Day (March 7), a recent survey by Kellogg Canada Inc. reveals that Canadians continue to think outside-the-cereal-box when it comes to their cereal creations. Experimenters of flavour and embracers of the unconventional, nearly 90 per cent…
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Study uses big data to analyze international food trade
As the world population swells, the inequitable distribution of food around the globe is prompting profound moral questions. Is the unequal distribution of food in rich and poor countries, for instance, merely a consequence of geography, with rich countries having…
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Chickapea receives Women’s Business Enterprise Certification
Chickapea, one of the world’s fastest growing organic pulse-based pastas, is proud to announce that they have officially received Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) Certification. The WBE Certification was issued after an assessment had been conducted by WEConnect International and it…
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SweetWARE releases nutraCoster Professional 3.0
SweetWARE celebrates the nutraCoster 25-year anniversary with the announcement of the general release of nutraCoster Professional 3.0, the next generation of its cost-effective recipe nutrition labeling, nutrition analysis and recipe costing software for restaurants, bakeries and food manufacturers. nutraCoster calculates…
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Bühler Insect Technology Solutions and Alfa Laval join forces in insect processing
Bühler Insect Technology Solutions, a provider of integrated solutions for insect rearing and processing, is combining its strengths with Alfa Laval, a world leader in heat transfer, separation and fluid handling. Together, they will offer advanced modular insect plant solutions to…
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Canadians’ consumption of fruit and vegetables drops 13 per cent in 11 years
Two surveys taken 11 years apart show a 13-per-cent decrease in the amount of fruit and vegetables being consumed by Canadians, new UBC research has found. And while consumption of milk and dairy products also declined during the study period…
