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Flavorchem develops orange oil replacer line
And Suja Organic unveils new look to enhance transparency, while Coca-Cola is pulling Spiced, its newest ‘permanent’ flavor, from store shelves...
Jan van Iperen
September 24, 2024
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Across the East and Gulf Coasts, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) has been threatening to go on a full strike, which would potentially impact various goods across the country if the U.S. and the union do not come to a new agreement.
The rebrand is grounded in four core values: transparency, simplicity, inclusivity and positivity, according to Suja Life.
The company said the rebrand’s main priority is putting its flavors, ingredients and functional benefits at the forefront to offer more transparency for consumers.
Coca-Cola intended Spiced to become a permanent addition to its lineup because its research found that an “increase in consumer willingness to try a spiced beverage” and that raspberry was selected more than 5 million times on its Freestyle drink machines in 2022, which the company “often uses for inspiration” for new flavors, according to Sue Lynne Cha, the company’s vice president of marketing for North America.
Recycling is often confusing to consumers, with regulations differing not just between countries but even between cities and streets. A lack of recycling uptake, therefore, isn’t always down to laziness or neglect, but often simply from lack of knowledge.
With its silicon-free microchips, UK start-up Pragmatic aims to provide item-level intelligence for food packaging in order to significantly reduce the amount of waste that makes its way into landfill.
🍊 Citrus News
As demand for natural products continues to grow, driven by widespread use in food and beverages, cosmetics, and cleaning products, orange oil prices are expected to increase over the next 3-5 years.
In response these challenges, Flavorchem, a global flavor and ingredient supplier, developed taste mod™ orange, an innovative line of orange oil replacers, offering the zesty taste of citrus at a more affordable price.
The National Weather Service is predicting a storm surge from Tropical Storm Helene of 10 to 15 feet in coastal Citrus County, which would bring up to 7 feet or more of water to U.S. 19 in Crystal River. Hurricane Hermine in 2016 and the 1993 “no-name” storm are considered the bellwether weather events in Citrus County, with both flooding homes, businesses and roads in coastal communities.
The Nanovel AI-powered autonomous fruit-harvesting robot is designed to pick citrus fruit for fresh market in dense foliage. The system features a multi-arm platform, which will initially be towed by a tractor. Future versions are planned to include an internal driving unit and autonomous navigation capabilities.
With the loading of the first Meyer lemons, the Turkish citrus season is now in the starting blocks. "The first batches are currently being packed and loaded, after which they are expected to arrive at the end of week 39. We should have started at the beginning of September, but we are now starting the season a good two weeks later.”
Dr. Davie Kadyampakeni, University of Florida's associate professor of citrus water and nutrient management, is working to improve organic citrus production and sustainability through enhanced soil health, horticultural, and pest management practices.
The 2024/2025 Spanish lemon season has started with high demand and prices due to a transition with barely any overlap between the two hemispheres.
🔬 Research Worth Reading
The tangerine (Citrus reticulata), also known as mandarin, is a citrus fruit commonly enjoyed for its sweet and refreshing flavor, but its potential goes beyond its natural consumption. In recent years, scientific studies have explored not only the benefits of consumption, but also the use of waste generated during processing, which adds value to the production chain and contributes to sustainability.
“Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus” (CLas) is a phloem-limited alpha-proteobacteria causing Citrus Huanglongbing, the destructive disease currently threatening global citrus industry. Genomic analyses of CLas provide insights into its evolution and biology. Here, we sequenced and assembled whole genomes of 135 CLas strains originally from 20 citrus cultivars collected at ten citrus-growing provinces in China.
CO2-assisted catalytic pyrolysis of the citrus peel offers significant technical benefits: it enhances carbon recovery in the form of CO and reduces the formation of undesirable aromatic pyrogenic products.
The most important results are: i) for each crop, the different levels of tolerance to boron toxicity were strongly influenced by the variety; ii) the level of boron tolerance was not directly related with the concentration of boron accumulated in the leaves; iii) the stress due to boron toxicity affected the main primary metabolism routes in the citrus trees, with a generalized response found in the routes involving the metabolites acetate, citrate, malate, proline, GABA, and alanine, with a significant reduction in their concentration as a result of this stress; and iv) the concentration of aspartate significantly increased in the citrus varieties considered to be more tolerant, such as Eureka, Murcot, Nova, Navelate, Valencia Late and Midknight.
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