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Food Tech
Engineered E. Coli Convert Glucose Into Low-Calorie Tagatose With a 95% Yield
1 sources · 58d ago
Corporate Spin-Off
Unilever Finalizes Spin-Off of $8 Billion Ice Cream Division, Creating Global Standalone Giant
1 sources · 56d ago
Commodity Cycle
Why Global Cocoa Prices Plummeted 75 Percent as West African Harvests Recover
7 sources · 71d ago
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