Danish Chr Hansen recently launched a cranberry ingredient for
functional foods that could further increase the role of the berry
beyond juice and dietary supplements.
Ocean Spray's Ingredients Technology Group (ITG) claims its success
in marketing cranberry-related food and drink ingredients in Asia
has led to the launch of cranberry-flavoured Chinese mooncakes.
Cranberry giant Ocean Spray is again expanding its processing
capacity in an effort to catch up with soaring global demand for
products containing sweetened dried cranberries.
Cranberry giant Ocean Spray is expanding its dried cranberry
production to meet expanding global demand for the healthy
ingredient, which is said to have grown 30 percent over the past
year.
Cyvex Nutrition is introducing a new cranberry extract called
CranVida, and is marketing it on the basis of its antioxidant
profile as well as the fruit's usual urinary health claim.
Ocean Spray ITG is introducing a new variant of dried cranberries
at Vitafoods this week that uses pineapple juice as a sweetener in
place of sucrose syrup, allowing food products to have 'cleaner'
labels.
Canada's Bioriginal is launching a new flax-based product which
incorporates cranberry, which it expects to be popular with
companies wishing to offer two-fold health benefits.
Ocean Spray is encouraged that the findings of a small study into
the health properties of dried cranberries will lead to their use
in a broader range of healthy food products.
Cranberry's reputed efficacy in fighting urinary tract infections
(UTIs) leads almost one third of parents to give it to their
children, reports Jess Halliday, despite few pediatric
studies, according to research from Brenner...
After rejecting an $800 million offer for its juice business from
Northland Cranberries early last year, US co-operative Ocean Spray
has decided the time is right to enter into an agreement with its
rival.
US cranberry co-operative Ocean Spray will purchase the cranberry
processing assets and current inventory of unprocessed cranberries
of Wisconsin-based Northland Cranberries as part of the expansion
of its fruit receiving and concentrating...
US cranberry co-operative Ocean Spray will roll out a plumper
version of its health ingredient for use in bakery products onto
the European food market in the next few months, hoping to see
value-added ingredients boost a bottom line...
The substantial body of scientific research on the cranberry has
given it a unique selling point in the French market, where it
became the first fruit to receive a health claim.
The French food authority AFSSA has approved a health claim for
cranberry juice and powder and its effect on urinary tract health,
in the world's first health claim for the fruit, writes Philippa
Nuttall.
Ongoing debate over strategy for the ingredient and juice producer
Ocean Spray Cranberries has damaged the co-operative's credit
rating, and could distract management from focusing on being more
competitive, said analysts this...
American cranberry co-operative Ocean Spray, seeking to build brand
awareness in Europe at FiE this week, has extended its ingredients
line further with a new mixed berry variant and glycerated version
of its Flavoured Fruit Pieces...
More good news about cranberry juice: researchers have found that
drinking three glasses a day significantly raises levels of 'good
cholesterol', reducing the risk of heart disease.
Northland Cranberries, the US-based juice group, has made an offer
for the cranberry juice business of its main rival Ocean Spray - a
move which the latter group seems to have dismissed as merely a
statement of interest.
Product development, once a main force behind the company's
success, but recently a division lacking innovative fire, has also
received a major infusion of cash.
