Editorials & Opinions

Living with time

The idea conveyed by beer – which invites us to let ourselves go with the flow, to say ‘let’s stay as long as it lasts, see how it goes, talk about everything and nothing’ – does not resonate with Gen Z, who experience time differently. The gap is not between beer and Gen Z, but between two different ideas of conviviality

Delicate balances

Defining an agri-food system is now more complex than ever. A scientific study from 2025 analyses the effects of geopolitical risks on global supply chains

Obesity: there is still a lot to be done, all together

The agri-food system – from the production of raw materials through to their distribution and processing, including research, product reformulation and nutrition education, and indeed, why not, potential marketing strategies – can play a part in preventing and reducing obesity

It’s easy to say juice

The legislative context has introduced important changes to force the transition towards a production system that favors adherence to healthier diets

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Keeping promises

Beverage doesn’t exist in the warehouse; it exists when someone drinks it in a context, in company, in a place of their choosing. This is why HoReCa isn’t simply a distribution channel like any other: it’s the place where the product is called upon to deliver on the promises the brand has built. In purchasing,…

By, Co, Up

My convictions are wavering… a bit like when I find myself trying to describe and distinguish a by-product from a co-product or an upcycled product

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The value of time

We live in the age of everything now: if a web page doesn’t load quickly enough, we abandon it; if our desktop processor isn’t efficient and fast, we immediately lose patience; if the apps on our smartphone don’t solve our problems in fractions of a second, we uninstall them or download others, hoping they’ll perform…

Words, words, words

The use of a by-product for food purposes constitutes a form of upcycling, a relatively recent term that refers to a specific type of value-adding process and which does not yet have a clear legal definition

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