Food news, industry, rants.
PwC’s recurring consumer sentiment survey in the UK shows a global trend. The UK consumer confidence index dropped from -1 in January to -13 (sic!), while 9 out of 10 consumers are worried about the cost of living. 8 out of 10 want to reduce spending in the near future. 40% of respondents want to buy … Read more
Mondelez International is guilty of misleading consumers! The ruling concerns a lawsuit filed last year by the consumer association Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg e.V. over the company reducing the size of Milka chocolate bars from 100 g to 90 g without clearly informing consumers. Milka Alpine Milk received the title of “deceptive packaging of the year 2025” … Read more
Do you like coffee? Especially Arabica? Are you, like me, addicted to caffeine?If so, that’s a bit of a problem.Arabica, which makes up nearly three-quarters of global coffee production, is less bitter and contains less caffeine, but it’s far more valued for its flavor.The cheaper Robusta, with its less pleasant earthy and woody notes, is … Read more
At least 50 people across seven countries — more than half of them in Finland — have been infected with Salmonella. The most likely cause was… sprouts. From Italy. Products like sprouts and microgreens — so often treated as part of a healthy fitness diet, eaten raw, added as garnish, to salads and slaws — … Read more
That, unless you hijacked an Italian truck, you have no eating.From Perugia, in central Italy, last week, a truck full of Kit Kats set off. Destination Poland. Along the way, supplying successive countries. And it disappeared!Interestingly, according to the official statement from Nestle, it is not known where the truck disappeared.I’m asking more than stating … Read more
One of those conveniences, one of those devices without which, after some time, you wonder how you ever lived. Unless you practice zen while kneading dough for 20 minutes. But, quoting a classic, for that you need a lot of phlegm in you — and “in me there’s nothing but fury.” If you make dough, … Read more
The European Commission wants to ban the use of 29 meat-related names to describe plant-based products.This proposal effectively highlights the contradictions that plague the Commission and the EU as a whole. It comes just after the European Court of Justice blocked a French law that tried to enforce such a ban on a national level.Powerful … Read more
Are you familiar with soups with a regenerative insert? The regenerative insert, also referred to as the meat insert, was somewhat of a symbol of significant changes that took place in the way Poles ate after World War II, as well as the shortcomings of those changes. When I have a lot of work, my … Read more
The topic of intellectual property isn’t very catchy unless there’s a scandal about plagiarism or the use of someone else’s recipes. From time to time, there are cases of wholesale utilization of other people’s recipes, whether on a blog or in an e-book. And usually, it turns out that the aggrieved parties have no clue … Read more
