News

The latest news from the natural and organic products industry.

Goodwood cheese romps home with a gold

Goodwood Home Farm’s organic Charlton Farmhouse cheese has won the Gold Medal in the mature, traditional cheddar cheese category at the Royal Bath and...

Pharma Nord launches starter pack to drive Q10 sales

Pharma Nord has introduced its Bio-Quinone Q10 Starter Pack in a bid to encourage more customers to try the product. Bent Henriksen, Pharma Nord’s MD,...

VBites gets the star treatment in H&B Chester

Heather Mills officially opened the VBites vegan café concession in Holland & Barrett’s (H&B) new More store in Chester yesterday (9 June). Fellow vegan and...

Industry figures drive RSPH to include indie health stores in follow-up...

Following the omission of health food stores in the recent Health on the High Street report, NAHS Administrator Avril McCracken and Cheryl Thallon of...

News in brief

Tree of Life is now the UK distributer of the Beloved date brand from Oman as Beloved embarks on a £1 million consumer drive...

Was this the beginning of a pro-GM television future?

Did the BBC Panorama programme GM Food – Cultivating Fear usher in a new “pro-GM television future”? That’s the question raised by the head of...

Beauty Bites

Childs Farm has announced the recruitment of James Hume, who has left Fruit Towers, HQ of Innocent Drinks, to join the Hampshire-based natural toiletries...

Mr Organic rolls out non-BPA tins

Mr Organic has announced a breakthrough in the creation of non-BPA lined tins for its organic chopped tomatoes. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a carbon-based synthetic...

Remeo Gelato introduces a new flavour of Italy

Remeo Gelato has launched a new variety of its 100% natural slow-churned gelato, Pistacchio Siciliano. The gelato is made with pistachios grown on the island...

Better Food Co gets The Answer

Earlier this month the Better Food Company in St Werburghs, Bristol, played host to Joss Stone as she shot one of the scenes for...

Restrictive allergy diets leading to malnutrition in children, scientists claim

Middle-class children are increasingly at risk from malnutrition as result of being placed on restrictive allergy-diets by well-intentioned but misinformed parents. That’s the warning from...

It’s Tyne for chease

Plant-based ‘cheese’ brand Tyne Chease has just launched its first product line of handmade soft cultured nut cheeses. The 100% all-natural products use organic ingredients...

EatBy App launches to reduce food waste

With a staggering £154 billion being wasted on uneaten food each year in Europe and the US and about a third of all food...

Natural health companies make Pitch to Rich final ten

Two companies from within the natural health sector have made it to the semi-final of Richard Branson’s Pitch to Rich in the Grow category:...

Winner of BioCare on-stand competition revealed

UK supplement brand BioCare has announced Rasik Patel of Sheel Pharmacy as the winner of its on-stand competition which took place at Natural &...

Almost a fifth of Britons don’t eat any whole grains

Experts at Newcastle University are calling for the introduction of guidelines on the amount of whole grains people should eat after it was revealed almost one in...

New look for Kinetica’s Milkprotein range

Kinetica has revamped and relaunched its ready-to-drink (RTD) Milkprotein shake in a bid to position it for a new wave of consumers in the...

Deliciously Ella to front OTB’s #ThriftyOrganic Challenge

Top food blogger and best-selling author Deliciously Ella is to front a new Organic Trade Board initiative aimed at showing people that organic doesn’t...

Salmon oil found to reduce markers of oxidative stress

A study which researchers say may be the first to show that fish oil can reduce oxidative stress in healthy subjects, has found that...

Lily’s Kitchen cooks up canine snack bars

Natural pet food brand Lily’s Kitchen says it is revolutionizing the pet snacking category with the ground-breaking launch of three new 100% natural, hand-baked...