There’s a strong case for saying that of all food formats, frozen ranks among the most relevant for today’s increasingly demanding and busy...
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Many of us need to take a tablet at some stage in our hectic lives. Maybe it is to shake off the occasional headache or cold. Perhaps it has been...
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Very few seafood products can rival the international demand that salmon has. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...
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Salmon is a very special fish. Highly prized across traditional and new markets alike, the relentless growth in consumer demand for salmon shows no signs of abating. Many would argue that it has reached the point that it now transcends the wider seafood category, with evidence that many people who wouldn’t class themselves as “fish eaters” actively making it a part of their diet. (more…)
Encompassing favourite preparations like nigiri, maki, sashimi, chirashi, gunkan and an ever-expanding variety of other hugely popular specialities, sushi is unquestionably a global food phenomenon. The unrelenting culinary trend has taken the world by storm and continues to keep seafood in vogue in consumer markets everywhere. (more…)
When it comes to foods with the wow factor, very few products can rival lobster. Its sweet, succulent taste has hooked legions of appreciative consumers from all over the world. And to keep them coming back for more, there’s no end of preparations and different ways to experience these highly prized crustaceans. (more…)
Comprising a very broad array of versatile and nutritious products, seafood plays a crucial role in the healthy diets of billions of consumers, as well as ensuring global food security. At the same time, underpinned by globalisation and new logistics technologies, it’s also one of the world’s most extensively traded protein groups, with fisheries and the aquaculture sector, in particular, continuing to ramp up production levels to meet this unprecedented demand. (more…)
Corona/COVID-19 dominates the news and is having an enormous impact on our lives. The situation is changing from day to day and sometimes from hour to hour. We are closely following all the developments and guidelines.
The National Security Council of Belgium considers the food sector to be essential and vital. It is therefore imperative that we do everything in our power to ensure the continuation of food supplies. (more…)
Why do we eat seafood? It’s a simple enough question – after all, we make food decisions multiple times each day. But while the rich variety of foodstuffs readily available to us continues to expand at a rapid pace, fish remains a thriving food category – one that’s characterised by long-term rising consumption. Indeed, our global intake of seafood now stands at more than 20.5 kg per capita and is anticipated to reach 21.3 kg by 2027. (more…)
In October, our purchase manager Jennifer Vermeiren went to Chile, where we purchase our Atlantic salmon, mussels and king crab. Horacio Lyon, managing partner from our local Omega C-Foods office, was also present. Chilean king crab and in particular the meat, which is mainly used by our industrial customers in the production of salad spreads, is an important item in our product range. (more…)
Climate change is one of the most far-reaching challenges facing our planet today, with everyone and everything affected by it in one way or another. It’s also widely expected that the situation will get worse before it gets better. (more…)
Every year, around the end of October and the beginning of November we visit the largest fish and seafood trade show in Asia: “China Fisheries & Seafood Expo”. More than 35,000 seafood professionals from over 90 countries visit the CFSE. Over 1,600 exhibiting companies put their best foot forward including importers, distributors, retailers, industry and food services., … (more…)
As a means of providing food for human consumption, fish farming has been around for centuries. However, the practice of rearing young Atlantic salmon in open water cages until they reach suitable market size is much more recent – not really coming to the commercial fore until the 1970s. This emergence owed much to the scarcity of wild salmon, which had seen it become a luxury product. (more…)
