According to a report by Food and Beverage Ontario (FBO), food and beverage exports from Ontario have increased 12% over the past two years for a total of $7.6 billion annually. The report indicates that Ontario’s international reputation for wholesome and safe food and drink as well as the growing middle class in developing countries has led to this substantial …

Colin Dennis, CBE, PhD, CFS, CSci, has been named the 2015-2016 president of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). Committed to advancing the science of food and its application across the global food system, the nonprofit scientific community welcomes Dennis in as its 76th president. Dennis will be tasked with supporting the IFT’s initiatives, which include the advancement and promotion …

Mother Parkers brings social responsibility to the business Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee has been packing tea and roasting coffee for more than 100 years. The family-owned private label is the fourth-largest coffee roaster in North America behind Folgers, Maxwell House and Starbucks. The company supplies virtually every retailer in North America, from Loblaws and Walmart, to Tim Hortons, McDonald’s …

Andrew Reynolds The Ontario wine industry produces ≈ 65,000 tonnes of grapes and consists of varieties such as Riesling, Chardonnay, and Cabernet franc, with lesser quantities of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Pinot noir, with a farmgate value of >$62 million (www.grapegrowersofontario.com ). Although most grapes are destined for wine production, a small portion (2164 tonnes in 2014) is processed into …

Lisa Duizer1 | Chris Findlay2 Sensory evaluation has a number of different applications within the food industry, ranging from analytical testing for differences among products through to hedonic testing to understand consumer liking. Because of the breadth of tests available, sensory testing can be used for a number of different purposes. This includes new product development, product reformulation, process changes, …

Rotimi E. Aluko The primary purpose of protein consumption is to provide essential amino acids, which are used by the body to synthesize various structural (muscles, bones, hair) and functional (enzymes, hormones) proteins required for homeostasis maintenance. However, the increasing popularity of functional foods and nutraceuticals has led scientists to seek protein-derived fragments (peptides) that could prevent or even treat …

Welcome back to the Regulatory Arena and our third edition on the Clean Label. In our first edition, we introduced and explored the definition of the “clean label” and set the stage for the upcoming discussions. In our last edition, we considered some of the differences in the treatment of the “clean label” in Canada and the U.S. In this …

Text by Stephanie Mattucci Pea protein is making an impact on the food and drink industry as one of the fastest-growing plant-based proteins on the market. While other plant proteins, such as soy and wheat, are more common, the number of food and drink product launches using pea protein increased nearly 50% between 2013 and 2014. One reason for increased …

by Theresa Rogers Back to the Future Day – October 21, 2015 – the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown visited in the famous movie, Back to the Future II, seems to have taken the world by storm. The internet and media were all over it, going through the movie bit by bit and analyzing what the movie got right …

Champion Canadian swimmer talks medal incentives and everyone’s favourite topic, food Text by Theresa Rogers On the other side of the world, in western Russia, Team Canada has left its mark. The nation welcomed home its medalists from the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russia, in August. As part of a recently launched incentive program, Chicken Farmers of Canada gave …