Belgian butter firm Plaquette has big ambitions for its bite-sized ‘candy’ butters
Plaquette’s ‘candy’ butters are named as such due to being packed in bite-sized portions as though these were candies, but these could be either sweet or savoury flavours such as the firm’s unique seaweed, chimichurri or truffle butters.
“We won the Gulfood award for the candy butters for two major reasons: The innovative packaging format that allows consumers to finish an entire portion with no wastage; and the sustainability factors behind its creation,” Plaquette Founder Lionel Plaquette told us at the Gulfood 2026 show in Dubai.
New nutrition labelling standards in Japan focus on sodium control, paving the way towards regulatory control and lower salt innovation
Salt and sodium intake has been one of Japan’s most urgent public health challenges in recent years, exacerbated by the country’s abundant use of soy sauce and relevant condiments as staple parts of its cuisine.
Most recently, Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) released the national Japanese Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labelling (FoPL) Guidelines.
Food and beverage major Yeo’s is eyeing expanded growth via a focus on smaller pack sizes and a stronger global export push across the US and Europe
Yeo Hiap Seng (Yeo’s) recently announced its FY2025 full-year financial results, reporting a -11% year-on-year decline in revenue to S$292.4m (US$230m) and a -15.5% year-on-year drop in gross profits to S$92.1m (US$72.4m).
This was attributed to weaker consumer spending and intensified competition across many of its key markets, as well as an uncertain macro environment.
A two-week ceasefire is now in place in the war between US-Israel and Iran, but much is still uncertain about how long-lasting the impacts of damage done thus far will be and what still lies ahead for the global food sector
This agreement allows some breathing room for all parties involved after over five weeks of tension, with a silver lining that oil, fertiliser and other commodities will now be able to move through the strait. But there are still many, many unanswered questions that must be addressed before everyone — and the food industry in particular — can breathe easy.
South Korea has drafted new local regulations to effectively mandate genetically modified (GM) labelling in common processed foods such as soy sauce and oils
The East Asian nation currently only mandates the labelling of approved GM raw materials such as soybeans and corn; or those manufactured or processed using these materials and found to still contain residual GM content.
If passed into law, the new draft regulations would see a variety of commonly used processed food items including soy sauce, sugar syrups and edible oils that have used GM ingredients in their processing end up being mandated to carry GM labelling, regardless of whether any residual GM content is found in the end product.
