Remember Letitia Cropley, the 'Queen of Cordon Bleugh' in TV series The Vicar of Dibley? She served up unusual food combinations such as Marmite cakes, lemon curd with ham and cheese, and a bewildering concoction of chocolate with cod's roe. She may have benefited from new research that increases understanding of which flavours work well together and why. [ + ]

Lluis Serra-Majem, professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and president of the International Foundation of the Mediterranean Diet, has criticised the eating habits of millennials, claiming their diet has shifted over the generations. [ + ]

Demand for packaging for ready-to-eat poultry applications is projected to climb 4.6% annually to $450 million in 2021. [ + ]

Australian conveyor NEPEAN Conveyors has finalised negotiations to acquire Sandvik's International Conveyor Components businesses and Sandvik's Specialist Conveyor Systems business in Hollola, Finland. [ + ]

Nestec, a subsidiary of Nestlé, has signed a Technology Evaluation and License Option Agreement to test EnWave's Radiant Energy Vacuum (REV) food dehydration technology. [ + ]

Snowdale Holdings has been ordered to pay a total of $750,000 in penalties for making false or misleading representations that its eggs were 'free-range'. [ + ]

Marel's strategy to be a full-line supplier to the poultry, meat and fish industries globally is closer to fruition with the company's acquisition of Sulmaq. [ + ]

Just who is running the show? Not content with affecting development, immunity, nutrition and longevity, the gut microbiota may be directing food choice, consumption and reproduction. [ + ]

Food scientists from research and industry, technologists, students and the wider community are invited to present topics relevant to food science and technology, industry and education at the 2018 ISEKI_Food Conference in Stuttgart. [ + ]

The demand for dairy products is increasing in Vietnam, and Vinamilk is capitalising on this by installing a liquid dairy plant with Tetra Pak's investment of US$110 million. [ + ]

With an increasing number of jellyfish swarming the sea, scientists have found a new method of controlling these 'blooms' — jellyfish crisps. [ + ]

The ongoing rebalancing of supply and demand in global dairy markets has led the Fonterra Co-operative Group to increase its forecast Farmgate Milk Price for the upcoming 2018 season. The new forecast is $6.75 per kilogram of milk solids (kgMS), replacing the May 2017 forecast of $6.50/kgMS. [ + ]

German researchers are in the process of establishing the Industrial Data Space, a virtual construct for secure data sharing based on standardised communication interfaces. [ + ]

With 60% of the global population and some of the richest consumers, Asia's share of the global organic food market is less than 10% — but this might be about to change as the Asia–Pacific edition of the Sustainable Foods Summit comes to Singapore in November. [ + ]

Research sponsored by the Trilateral Research Association of Sweet Potato aims to create a sweet potato pan-genome, which will allow researchers to see unique and shared traits among all varieties and be able to breed sweet potatoes with higher nutritional values, productivity, disease resistance, etc. [ + ]