Category Archives: Food and Beverage
Food quality in Lebanon can never be trustworthy !
Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud played down the food safety controversy sweeping the country Friday, saying that the amount of spoiled meat that has been found is a small percentage of the total meat on the market.
No one wants to eat rice all the time anymore!
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star, Maucher - Former Nestlé chairman- explained that despite the world’s growing economic and financial woes, the global food industry remains stable and is poised for significant growth, both on the medium and long terms.
Fried food heart risk ‘a myth’
It is a “myth” that regularly eating fried foods causes heart attacks, researchers have found, as long as you use olive oil or sunflower oil.
McDonald’s hits record $27bn turnover
McDonald’s, the fast food chain, announced a record annual turnover of $27bn as it continued to win market share around the world and vowed to open 1,300 new outlets this year.
PepsiCo says finds trace fungicide in orange juice!
PepsiCo Inc said company tests of its Tropicana orange juice showed low levels of a potentially dangerous fungicide, but levels were below federal safety concerns and did not pose a health risk.
Calories, not protein, matter most for fat gain
When it comes to packing on body fat, how many calories you eat seems to count more than where those calories come from — lots of protein, or very little.
Food prices may ease in 2012 but won’t drop: FAO
Prices of some foods may ease slightly in 2012 due to a slowing global economy but are unlikely to drop drastically from the high levels reached last year, the new director-general of the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization said Tuesday.
Restaurants must designate adequate parking space
Restaurants in major cities are now obliged to designate sufficient parking space for their customers in a bid to lessen traffic jams in popular areas, Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud said in a statement Friday.
farmers must produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed population
A quarter of farmland is highly degraded, according to the first report into the state of the world’s land resources
