Zespri’s SunGold Kiwifruit Wins Best Snack of 2025 — Again
Zespri’s SunGold kiwifruit secures Good Housekeeping’s Best Snack Award for the fifth consecutive year, cementing its status as the growth driver of the kiwi category and a rising star in global fruit consumption. This follows from the EU's recent ruling giving the Green Kiwifruit from Zespri 'health status'.
2 days ago1 min read
The Mushroom Meat Co. Turns Up the Heat with Four New Flavours
US Based, The Mushroom Meat Co. has dropped four bold, pre-seasoned flavours in the form of Carne Asada Bites, Korean BBQ Bites, Pulled Carnitas, and Southern BBQ Pulled, all crafted for chefs who need speed without compromising flavour.
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NZ Seaweed Summit - From Tide to Trade
Seaweed has always been there at the edge of the tide - useful, humble, occasionally headline-grabbing, but next month in Nelson it gets its moment in the boardroom. The 2025 Seaweed Summit brings together industry innovators, science leaders, Māori enterprise, and even a Government Minister, signalling that this is no longer just a niche curiosity but a sector on the brink of being noticed.
3 days ago1 min read
Oscar Mayer’s EveryBun Pack – One Wiener, Two Americas?
Oscar Mayer has just dropped the “EveryBun Pack,” a dual box set of old-school pork wieners and its Not Hot Dogs, plant-based cousins born out of the Kraft Heinz x NotCo partnership. No blending, no meat-plant mashups, just side-by-side dogs in one pack, each wrapped separately like awkward cousins at a Labor Day cookout.
3 days ago1 min read
Lidl’s Live Well Logo Anchors the Planetary Health Diet
Lidl GB has just moved the supermarket game up a notch. The UK discounter is rolling out a bold new Live Well logo across its private-label shelves, linking everyday groceries to the lofty goals of the Planetary Health Diet by 2050. Think beans, grains, fibre, plant protein and yes, fully recyclable packaging too.
3 days ago1 min read
Now 8: Fix & Fogg Nut Butters Go Coast-to-Coast in the U.S.
There’s nothing parochial about this Kiwi product. Wellington’s Fix & Fogg has pulled off what most Kiwi food brands only ever dream of. Eight nut butters now line every Whole Foods shelf across the United States, the home of peanut butter itself.
4 days ago1 min read
Canadian Researchers Hand Out a Mushroom-Based Cancer Fighter - For Free
In a move turning the pharma playbook on its head, the University of Windsor and Shogun Maitake Canada are literally giving away a mushroom-based cancer fighter that early lab tests suggest could help the immune system knock out cancer cells.
5 days ago1 min read
SKILLS ALARM For Kiwi Food Sector as The Train Hurtles Down the Track
New Zealand’s latest migration settings are colliding with its food ambitions.
Net migration has collapsed to just +13,700 (YE June 2025), while a 13-year-high 71,800 citizens packed up and left, most young, skilled, and irreplaceable. Those empty lab benches and processing plants aren’t abstract,
5 days ago1 min read
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