Philip Bélanger shares his passion for Canadian cheese Text by Lekha Kanagasabai A passionate cheese connoisseur, Philip Bélanger has gone, seen, and conquered the ends of the cheese world, tasting the finest there is to offer. “After exploring various cheeses from all over the world, I really fell for the ones in Canada,” he says. Bélanger is Jury Chairman of …

There’s more to pulses than soups and salads as both the U.N. and industry look to raise awareness and celebrate the role of beans, chickpeas, lentils and peas in feeding the world Text by Hermione Wilson The United Nations has declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses and the Canadian pulse industry is eager to raise awareness about the many …

Stuart Smyth In the mid-1990s, genetically modified (GM) crops and their resulting food products entered the North American and European markets virtually unnoticed. In fact, products in Europe labelled as containing GM ingredients and being made from GM products outsold similar products in the late 1990s. In Canada and the USA, GM crops and products triggered minimal consumer concerns or …

April 9-12 Canada Health Food Association Expo Vancouver, BC April 9-14 Natural Food Health & Food Products Conference: CHFA West 2015 Vancouver, BC April 10-12 Good Food and Drink Festival Toronto, ON April 15-17 Canada Produce Marketing Association Convention Montreal, QC April 28-30 SIAL Canada 2015 Toronto, ON April 28-30 Food Safety Summit, Expo & Conference Baltimore, MD May 19-21 …

A research funding group consisting of Genome Alberta, Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency, Genome Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ontario Genomics Institute, and Genome Quebec, is banding together to combat Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PEDV). PEDV kills young piglets at an astonishing rate with a near 100 per …

Experts anticipate more than $40 billion in food product imports this year, a rising figure due to several factors says a new report. The recent closures of several Ontario food processing plants, such as Kellogg Co., have resulted in an increase in cereal imports of 18%. The weakened Canadian currency will see increased prices on food products of 0.7% to …

Chinese retailers want to stock more Canadian foods, but Canadian exporters are being largely out-flanked by competitors in getting space on supermarket shelves and exposure on China’s e-commerce sites, concludes a report released by the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI). The report is based on CAPI’s networking trip to China last November that introduced Canadian companies and organizations to selected …

UNBAKED CAKE CO. SERVES UP VEGAN SWEETS Text by Michael Markov Liz Gallagher is the driving force behind Unbaked Cake Co. Unlike most pastry companies, Unbaked Cake Co. serves only raw, vegan, organic desserts. The small Toronto-based business is the byproduct of Gallagher’s passion for healthy cuisine. After being introduced to raw food through a friend at university, Gallagher started …

The Canadian Poultry Research Council manages research under four interlinked categories to address issues from all stakeholders Text by Nicolas Heffernan Think of Canada’s poultry cluster as a big wheel. The spokes are different research projects, funding mechanisms and communication channels that reach out to industry, academia and government. But at the centre of it all is the Canadian Poultry …

FOR FOOD AND NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS Feral Temelli* | Marleny D.A. Saldaña INTRODUCTION Based on the significant developments in research and know-how in the area of supercritical fluid technology over the past three decades, supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) extraction and fractionation of natural ingredients have become main stream operations in the rapidly growing functional food and natural health products industry, …