Certain drinks are synonymous with specific countries. It might be tea in China, wine in France, coffee in Italy or Tequila in Mexico. But, our traditional perceptions of how the world drinks have been challenged over the past decade, and this is reflected by a new generation of dynamic niche categories, notably functional drinks, flavored milk, soy beverages, drinking yoghurt as well as RTD tea, coffee and premixes.
Fleur de sel is a type of sea salt, primarily harvested in Brittany, France. In French, the name means “flower of salt,” and as this implies, fleur de sel is very delicate and fluffy.
TransFair USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, congratulates the Fair Trade Certified™ CECOVASA Coffee Cooperative of Peru for winning top honors in the 2010 Roasters Guild Coffees of the Year Competition
More than 95 percent of the bananas sold in the U.S. are Cavendish, the cultivar that has dominated the market since the 1970s. But a handful of the thousand or so other banana varieties out there are becoming available to consumers in the country.
Tahitian Noni International (TNI) announced that sales of Tahitian Noni® Extra™ have exceeded all expectations, and that it has been a challenge to fill all of the product requests for the new bioactive beverage.
The latest national figures suggest Canadian palates are becoming somewhat more cosmopolitan when it comes to alcohol. Numbers released by StatsCan show that imported beer has more than doubled its market share in the last decade, while the amount of wine consumed continues to grow.
Researchers at Columbia University in New York have discovered a link between certain foods included in the diet and a reduction in the risk of Alzheimer’s.
The wine industry has gone to war over likely changes to alcohol taxes that could more than triple the price of a $10 cask of wine but cut the price of bottled wines over $27.
Scientists have found that eating food cooked or soaked in olive oil represses several genes which trigger inflammation in the body.
Francisco Perez-Jimenez, from the University of Cordoba, in Spain, who led the study, said: “These findings strengthen the relationship between inflammation … and diet and provide evidence at the most basic level of healthy effects derived from virgin olive oil consumption in humans.”
University of Fribourg PhD candidates Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf found that including investment-grade wine in a portfolio increases the portfolio’s returns and mitigates risk, particularly during an economic crisis.
Their study was first published in 2009 and has now been updated to reflect the recent recession. It compares the performance of wine (based on auction results for the most-traded wines), against that of the Russell 3000 index of the largest U.S. companies, over 13 years.
The intensely fishy smell of sardines has been the smell of money for generations of workers in Maine who have snipped, sliced and packed small, silvery fish into billions of cans on their way to Americans’ lunch buckets and kitchen cabinets.
