Sainsbury’s stores start stocking The Wizards Magic York-based confectionery brand The Wizards Magic has signed a deal with big four retailer Sainsbury’s to supply its products to stores nationwide, including a CBD chocolate bar.
From 3 June, Sainsbury’s will sell Wizards’ chocolate bars online and in 70 of its stores as part of its ‘Taste the Future’ initiative to help smaller food and drink businesses get to market. The programme was launched in 2019.
Food and drink products that have appeared on the Taste the Future bay in Sainsbury’s stores included Sea Chips handcrafter salmon skin crisps, snack brand Made for Drink and Bootleg Booch, an alcoholic kombucha.
Dairy Dialog podcast 119: Danone, Faerch, Too Good To Go
Dairy Dialog podcast 119: Danone, Faerch, Too Good To Go This week, we have three interviews. We feature conversations with Jamie Crummie, co-founder of Too Good To Go; Mark Tollman, group strategic sales director at Faerch Group; and Miguel Freitas, PhD, nutrition scientist at Danone.
We also have our weekly look at the global dairy markets with Liam Fenton, at StoneX.
Danone on probiotics and covid-19
In an article last month in mBio, the journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Heenam Stanley Kim, PhD, from Korea University’s Laboratory for Human-Microbial Interactions in Seoul, said as both elderliness and chronic conditions are often associated with an altered gut microbiota, resulting in disrupted gut barrier integrity, and gut symptoms have consistently been associated with more severe illness in COVID-19 patients, it is possible dysfunction of the gut as a whole influences COV
Too Good To Go, the anti-food waste company, has partnered with some of the nation’s favourite brands to tackle date label confusion and help eliminate food waste. The ‘Look, Smell, Taste, Don’t Waste’ campaign, which launched today (26 January), already has 25 brands signed up and Too Good To Go is calling on others to follow suit. The campaign will see brands switching products from 'Use By' to 'Best Before' labels where appropriate, as well