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Discovery: the Adventurous Consumer  The food and beverage industry is increasingly focusing on satisfying the adventurous consumer. Consumers are moving out of their comfort zones to explore bolder flavors and multisensory food experiences. There is a focus on heightened sensory delivery, often combined with an element of the unexpected.

"The thread that ties all the new flavors, ingredients and market forces together is how our desire to improve all aspects of the human experience is profoundly influencing the foods we will be eating well into 2019," explains Liz Moskow, Culinary Director at SRG. "We are also seeing extreme diet protocols from keto to paleo and more, giving consumers permission to eat things that were previously considered bad for you. This gives full fat dairy and other foods a seat at the table."

Candy is controversial. Scouring the globe in search of the sweet stuff reveals just how different our palates are — and how much we have in common.

These chocolate-covered caramels get their name from the celebrity trivia on their wrappers — quite literally, fan tales. They were first created in the 1930s to cash in on movie-star mania not long after the ‘‘talkies’’ came to Australia. Today, the candy is owned by Nestlé, and its team of trivia writers digs up factoids on celebrities from Australia and around the world. Here’s a snippet from a wrapper: ‘‘Born in New South Wales in 1939, he held a job as a painter working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge before rising to fame in the early 1970s after he did a comical interview on ‘A Current Affair.’ He later became a worldwide success with his performance in ‘Crocodile Dundee’ (1986), which he co-wrote.’’ Answer: Paul Hogan.

Founded in 1996, it started out as a blow-filling packaging firm, and later expanded to provide thermoforming services for the food and beverage manufacturing industry.

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Seventy-three percent of companies now have at least one application, or a portion of their computing infrastructure already in the cloud. With multi-cloud environments on the rise, containers have become a major driving force for businesses and developers because of their portability between cloud providers.

"Lots of organic farmers started thinking about these crops just as green manure crops (crops which sole purpose is to enhance soil fertility)," said David Oien, "They were growing them, and then plowing them back into the ground and wouldn't harvest the seed at all."

Basu said customers are fussy about the appearance of the lentils they buy. Ninety percent of red lentils are hulled and split.

The processing line separates by length and width, using sifters and destoning and aspiration systems. "It is still is somewhat of an art to get the grain as clean as we do and shoot for the purity levels that our customers demand," Ty says. Grain comes down a chute in single file and an electric eye uses a shot of air pressure to remove off-color seeds to go to other products, including feed for organic cows or chickens.

In an idyllic location on the Ionian coast, a farm, A Lanterna, produces chillies, olives and lemons. The business has suffered seven arson attacks in seven years, one of which caused €200,000 of damage. The constant aggressions leave you “beaten down”, says owner Annalisa Fiorenza. “You begin to think, ‘Is it worth it?’ ”

“We will be part of the story by making formulations and new molecules that are developed specifically for this technology,” said Renaud Deval, global head of weed control at Syngenta, which was bought by ChemChina last year.