McDonald's Planning Drive-Thru Pickup App

DN AGRAR invests EUR 13.5 million in new farm and composting facilities

The CUT 2 farm in Alba County is expected to produce over 50 million liters of milk per year from 2028

POWTECH TECHNOPHARM 2026: Competitive advantages through cross-industry exchange

Danone to acquire MADE Group, strengthening its position in the APAC market

The Australian company posted sales of more than €300 million and has consistently delivered double-digit growth

Solar Foods receives EUR 77,8 million for the construction and commissioning of Factory 02

MEGGLE fully integrates two cheese production sites into the group

New management for the Aurich and Wismar sites

Meat and fish account for a good fifth of food spending

According to the 2023 EVS, private households spent an average of 335 euros per month on food in 2023

Fazer completes the acquisition of the Swedish confectionery manufacturer Aroma

The deal includes three production sites in Sweden and around 100 employees

Vion Reaches Agreement on Sale of Business Unit Food Service - Vion Food Group

Vion is structuring the divestiture as a share deal

Enjoy a non-alcoholic summer with Cold Brew Teas

Non-alcoholic drinks are all the rage

Beer Culture in Upper Bavaria: Tradition Meets Modernity

How Upper Bavaria is reinventing its beer culture, blending monastic traditions, craft brewers, and hop gardens

VEGA Opens New Plant in China

Production at the headquarters will continue and will be supplemented by the new plant

Delicatessen items, mustard, soups: What Germany's shopping basket reveals

Kulinaria Pleasure Study 2026

Almdudler Germany takes over distribution of disposable containers itself in 2027

Bundling all sales activities strengthens market proximity and creates new growth impetus in the most important export market

Two technology start-ups at TH Mannheim receive millions in funding from the federal government

Energy-efficient technology for long-life food and improved radiation protection in the operating theater

Nestlé to acquire smart food pioneer yfood to accelerate the brand’s international expansion

Nestlé manager Jolanda Schwirtz takes over as head

Nestlé and Helaina partner to advance science-based early-life nutrition

The partnership combines Nestlé's nutrition science expertise with Helaina's biotech capabilities

Largest-ever capital investment at Lake District Creamery

First Milk boosts cheddar output

More than two thirds of Germans regularly drink functional drinks

Survey shows: fruit drinks with vitamins are just behind energy drinks

K+S acquires Qemetica’s salt business for up to 380 million euros

K+S is tapping into new growth opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe with specialty salts for water softening and the food industry

Nomad Foods bolsters UK food supply chain with £2.2m investment in its Lowestoft factory

Ultra-processed foods damage your focus even if you eat healthy

One extra bag of chips a day reduces your ability to focus and raise dementia risk factors regardless of diet quality

Future Foods Lab: Nomad Foods advances two startups to concept development

Swedish clean-label pizza brand For Real! Foods and Spanish functional snack maker Mia Puccia enter the next innovation phase

Could cultured chocolate unlock the next food revolution?

Chocolate from a bioreactor: UC Davis and food-tech start-up California Cultured aim to reinvent cocoa

New research finds that almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins

Grains, legumes and seeds used in vegan products are particularly prone to mould exposure during cultivation and storage

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

Nordzucker is revising its beet pricing model and investing €160 million in its factories

Two high-yield beet harvests in succession, high stocks in the EU sugar market and decreasing prices have impacted the earnings position

Nestlé to acquire smart food pioneer yfood to accelerate the brand’s international expansion

Nestlé manager Jolanda Schwirtz takes over as head

Not all ultra-processed foods are unhealthy

Healthy ultra-processed foods should be exempt from food policy restrictions

Green light for Arla Foods and DMK Group merger ​

The combined milk pool totals 19.4 billion kilograms annually

Coffee doesn’t just wake you up — it may help protect your body from aging

New research identifies a key biological pathway that could explain how coffee helps protect against aging and chronic disease.

Researchers find fructose sends a weaker “I’m full” signal to the brain than glucose

Findings shed light on how sugar type influences what and how much we decide to eat

Carbon nanotubes make the electronic nose suitable for everyday use for the first time

The smart fridge of the future: E-nose warns of off chicken and nut allergens

Festo is cutting approximately 1,300 jobs in Germany

Family-owned company responds to intensifying competition in Asia and geopolitical crises with a global transformation program

New drug could slow the development of Alzheimer’s

The active ingredient also shows anti-ageing effects

Detecting heavy metals in soil and water: New method for on-site analysis

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

Focused Energy secures US$240 million: the world’s first laser fusion power plant is set to be built in Germany

Record funding round positions the start-up at the forefront of the international fusion industry

New antibiotics discovered to treat multi-resistant germs

A well-known soil bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic that was discovered through improved fractionation methods

Holography meets spectroscopy: Ultrafast microscopy method for optical processes

Research team from Heidelberg and Milan develops novel microscopy technique to study energy materials

Atomic reshuffle paves way for record-breaking catalysts for hydrogen production

"This opens a new strategy for designing adaptive catalysts for a wide range of applications"

Mini-Brains from Patient Cells Point to Vitamin B3 as Treatment for Rare Childhood Disease

Lab-grown brain organoids revealed cholesterol build-up in astrocytes as the driver of DHDDS-related neurodegeneration.

Researchers solve a 50-year-old mystery: how acid removes water from proteins

Cryo-electron microscopy reveals for the first time which amino acids bind water and which ones release it when acidified

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods

Cytospire Therapeutics announces oversubscribed £61 million Series A financing

London-based start-up aims to activate gamma-delta T cells in both the blood and the tumour to fight cancer

Haga Bioscience raises $2.3m in oversubscribed seed round to bridge spatial biomarker discovery and clinical translation

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

Milestone for biotechnology made in Germany: More capacity for cell and gene therapies

Common structural analysis of interfacial water is inadequate, according to a new study

Water molecules at the air-water interface characterised layer by layer for the first time

Cooking plastics into oil

University of Amsterdam pilot plant brings advanced plastic recycling technology closer to industry

Insect larvae as a screening tool

How wax moth larvae can help reduce the need for mammalian testing in infection research

Pyrolysis oil instead of crude oil: Faster fluorine analysis reduces the risk for refineries

New method solves a key analytical challenge

German government publishes technology roadmaps for six key technologies

Strengthening competitiveness, value creation and technological sovereignty

First European biotech with CAR-T and LNP technology under one roof

T-CURX integrates Pantherna Therapeutics, bringing together 16 patent families and 35 employee

For the first time, researchers are peering inside record-breaking superconductors

Atomic-level insights into lanthanum superhydrides are expected to enable more energy-efficient technologies in the long term

Metso introduces an advanced lithium carbonate process to support battery materials production

At the core of the process is soda pressure leaching, which selectively extracts lithium with fewer soluble impurities in one pass

Fewer animal experiments thanks to virtual mouse

AI-supported in silico mouse model for biomedical research

PFAS detection in minutes rather than weeks: deep-tech start-up Grapheal secures €2.5 million in EU funding

The new EU Drinking Water Directive is driving demand for mobile PFAS analysis

Magnetic field during catalyst synthesis triples ammonia yield

A scalable strategy for developing next-generation electrocatalysts for efficient and sustainable chemical production

The Bacterial Savings Account

Microbes Bank Nutrients in Extracellular Vesicles, then Cash Out

Carbon dimer: precision measurement delivers new record value

New value deviates significantly from a much-noticed 2019 measurement, but agrees with older quantum chemical calculations

Frequency combs: the key to the next generation of spectroscopy

A review article demonstrates how dual-comb interferometers can determine resolution solely through temporal coherence.

AI Diagnoses Brain Tumors in Minutes Instead of Weeks

AI system outperforms experienced specialists