The new acquisition will open up the opportunity to expand Azelis lateral value chain for food in South Korea and to attract new mandates from Azelis’ Asia-Pacific food & health principals Azelis, a leading global innovation service provider in the specialty chemical and food ingredients industry, announces the acquisition of[Read More…]
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FFA 2021 award recognises five startups for innovation in food tech
The theme for this year’s Future Food Asia (FFA) conference was ‘Agrifoodtech 2.0’ The Future Food Asia (FFA) conference was recently held in Singapore where five startups were recognised for their contribution to food technology, nutrition etc. The theme for this year’s conference was ‘Agrifoodtech 2.0’, a celebratory sign as[Read More…]
Korean company to import Amla Powder from India
KoreaShop 24, a leading business-to-business (B2B) company that facilitates trade between Indian and Korean market has recently closed a deal to export 1 container of Amla Powder Nature Factory, a renowned Korean company with the help of KoreaShop 24 has signed the deal to import Amla Powder from one of[Read More…]
Korea hosts 2020 food video contest for foreigners
The Korean Food Festival for foreigners from around the world is online from November 30th to December 6th The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and Korean Food Promotion Institute will hold the ’2020 Korean Food Video Contest for Foreigners’ online from November 30th, 2020. The slogan of this competition is #Play[Read More…]
Korean MFDS and NFSA sign arrangement for fishery product safety
The arrangement attributes responsibility and obligation on the Norwegian government to manage the safety of fishery products exported to Korea. Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), and the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) sign arrangement for fishery product safety. The arrangement attributes responsibility and obligation on the Norwegian government[Read More…]
Weltec Biopower sets up plant to produce heat from food waste
Every day, the two bioreactors are filled with more than 250 t of food leftovers In autumn 2020, German firm WELTEC BIOPOWER starts building a biogas plant in South Korea. The plant is being set up in the province of Gyeonggi-do, some 60 km north of Seoul, and will transform[Read More…]
Korea publicly lists functional ingredient for bone health
A recent study confirmed that the test group administered with ginseng extracts demonstrated 11.6 times higher osteocalcin (bone structure markers) and 3 times higher increase in calcium concentration than the control group did. The Korea Ginseng Association announced that Korean ginseng is registered as a ’publicly listed functional ingredient for[Read More…]
Korea unveils probiotic derived from kimchi and garlic postbiotic
Jung’s Laboratory of Immunology’s newest product is not the simple probiotics since it has been supplemented with garlic postbiotics Jung’s Laboratory of Immunology in Seoul has released its newest probiotic product, ’Kimchii’. Immunity induced by lactic acid bacteria is not due to the bacterial cell itself, but rather due to the metabolic products accumulated inside[Read More…]
Korean ginseng shows positive effects to fight respiratory infections
A clinical study indicates 25% lower infection rates upon treating with Korean Ginseng, which has an active substance “ginsenoside” to prevent virus proliferation As interests in immune-boosting healthy functional foods continue to grow amidst of COVID-19’s worldwide spread, The Korea Ginseng Association has shared its nutritional research for Korean Ginseng’s[Read More…]
Korea reveals nanoscale dental erosion from beverage consumption
This novel approach is useful for measuring mechanical and morphological changes that occur over time during enamel erosion induced by beverages Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) used atomic force microscopy to quantitatively evaluate how acidic and sugary drinks affect human tooth enamel at the nanoscale[Read More…]
