The landscape of American comfort food is expanding quickly to reflect the renewed interest in dishes encompassing the broadly diverse ethnic base of American culture
When most American consumers crave comfort food, they’re accustomed to reaching toward traditional, old-school favorite dishes, such as meatloaf, macaroni and chicken soup. Yet the very concept of comfort food is evolving—and rapidly at that.
Innova Market Insights used Hi Europe, Amsterdam, to discover emerging trends for the coming year
January 13, 2015
”The move from ‘clean’ to ‘clear’ labeling is a key trend for 2015, reflecting a move to clearer and simpler claims and packaging for maximum transparency,” says Lu Ann Williams, Innova’s director of innovation.
Weekend warriors, health-conscious consumers fuel a growing mainstream market for drinks, bars and related foods for sports and/or nutrition performance and recovery
One of the biggest takeaways from Technomic’s recently released “Healthy Eating Consumer Trend Report” is that health is very much a do-it-yourself concept for today’s American consumers.
A little understanding behind the formulation and use of various flavoring systems is crucial to great-tasting food—and key to a successful product launch.
Keeping up with consumers' burgeoning demand for authentically flavored foods created entirely from naturally derived ingredients is easier than ever, thanks to advances in all-natural flavoring systems.
The idea of “safe” or “healthy” food colors is not new. Fueled in part by popular mythology about “unsafe” food coloring and hyperactivity in children, consumers remain choosy about color ingredients in food. Attendees at a recent Prepared Foods’ R&D Seminar learned about carotenoid color options
Whether referred to as premixes or preblends, the precise combining of ingredients into a single system allows processors to control consistency, as well as costs
A preblend or premix is a mixture of components that have been blended together, in-house or by an ingredient supplier, and provided to a processor as a preliminary step in the production of a final food or beverage product.