Cost Reduction

Butter Buds: Savory Flavor Solution

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:00:00 -0500

According to Mintel’s 2025 Trending Flavors and Ingredients in Snacks report, consumers continue to crave familiar flavors that offer indulgence while featuring high-quality, natural ingredients. Familiarity in flavors continues to be a strong driver, with cheese and pizza flavors maintaining their popularity.

Kerry: Reduce Cocoa, Sugar

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0400

Smart Taste represents the next evolution of Kerry’s leadership in taste. It combines deep market insights, world-class flavor creation, and unique food science expertise to meet the growing challenges facing the food industry.

Puratos: Win the Race in Baking

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:00:00 -0400

Just as Formula 1 teams rely on innovation, speed and collaboration, Puratos has engineered its IBIE presence as a high-octane “pit crew” for bakers. Because in the race to market, having the right crew matters.

Ardent Mills: Cocoa Solution

Tue, 20 May 2025 14:00:00 -0400

Ardent Mills Cocoa Replace is introduced at a pivotal moment for food manufacturers, as ongoing ingredient volatility challenges both cost management and supply chain assurance.

Innophos: Replace Egg

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:00:00 -0400

This new technology enables manufacturers to reduce costs, minimize supply chain disruptions, and maintain the volume, texture, taste, and appearance of traditional eggs in baked goods.

Corbion: Avoid Egg Supply Chain Issues

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:15:00 -0400

"The instability of egg availability presents significant challenges for bakery manufacturers," said Abby Ceule, Vice President of Functional Ingredients at Corbion. "With our patent-pending Vantage solutions, we’re providing reliable alternatives that enable our customers to retain control over their formulations while ensuring the exceptional taste, texture, and structure that consumers love."

Butter Buds: Keep Chocolate Flavor, Reduce Cost

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0500

This concentrated powder is made with real cocoa fat that provides formulators with a cost-effective alternative to cocoa powder and closely mimics delicious, real-chocolate flavor consumers know and love. Moreover, it comes at a time when cocoa prices reach historic highs.

How to Boost Chocolate Flavor, Reduce Cocoa, and Cost

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:00:00 -0500

Prepared Foods editors looked for cocoa ingredient alternatives during this year’s Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) annual expo. Interestingly, one solution came from a seemingly unlikely source on the show floor: POM Wonderful Specialty Ingredients. Following is a conversation with POM Wonderful’s Jason Horvath, sales manager for Specialty Ingredients.

Happy Plant Protein New Patented Technology

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0500

Happy Plant Protein is commercializing a manufacturing process that can produce high-quality plant protein ingredients with a 70-80% protein content. The method can be used with existing machinery and without needing to overcome time-consuming regulatory hurdles.

PROVA: Control Cocoa Costs

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0400

For a supplier’s perspective—and potential industry solutions—on the impacts of soaring cocoa prices,Prepared Foods interviewed PROVA’s President & CEO Muriel Acat and Senior Product Manager Marie Le Beller.

Innophos: Boost Poultry Profit

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:00:00 -0400

Innophos’ new OptiBind™ specialty phosphate blend offers an improved alternative to sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP). When used in poultry products, processors can increase brine pickup by 19% over STPP, greatly increasing product juiciness and flavor, and ensuring higher cook yield after storage.

Innophos: Better Baking

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:00:00 -0400

LEVAIR® solutions help commercial bakers improve profitability, reduce waste, and reach key sustainability goals –all while they address evolving consumer trends.

Innophos: Baking Solutions

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:00:00 -0400

Innophos returns as a presenter at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Event and Expo from July 16 – 19, 2023, at Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center. Innophos also invites IFT23 attendees to visit booth #S2810 to learn more about their science-backed phosphate technology solutions.

Ardent Mills: Ingredient Solutions

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 08:45:00 -0400

Ardent Mills introduces two new ingredients—Egg Replace™ and Ancient Grains Plus™ Baking Flour Blend—to help customers capitalize on new market growth, meet evolving consumer preferences for quality ingredients and great taste, and help alleviate supply chain challenges.

Kemin: Tortilla Technology

Mon, 15 May 2023 12:00:00 -0400

Kemin Food Technologies – North America offers a complete suite of tortilla solutions, including dough conditioners and softeners; enzyme blends and batch packs; and mold inhibitors.

Butter Buds: Big Chocolate Flavor

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:00:00 -0400

Milk Buds Plus serves up rich dairy taste, delivering a fatty mouthfeel and flavor masking, ideal for a variety of confectionery products, beverages and bakery fillings.

Omya: Anti-Caking

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:00:00 -0500

Omya, global producer of mineral ingredients, has developed an anti-caking agent for safe and easy powder handling and processing.

T. Hasegawa: Natural, Plant-Based

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 10:00:00 -0500

The California-based subsidiary of one of the world’s top flavor and fragrance companies has unveiled a patented new technology that produces rich-tasting, creamy low-fat foods and beverages – all while reducing reliance on increasingly expensive edible oil additives.

Innophos: Better Bacon

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 18:30:00 -0400

Innophos unveiled a new multi-faceted ingredient solution that helps food processors reduce processing time while improving the taste, texture and appearance of bacon and other meat products.

Palsgaard: Better Chocolate

Thu, 27 May 2021 17:15:00 -0400

PGPR (polyglycerol polyricinoleate) is used in chocolate production for mold optimization, flow control and viscosity reduction. Palsgaard’s existing product, Palsgaard® PGPR 4150, is already the market leader, but the company’s latest offering takes PGPR performance to new levels.

Ingredion: Indulgent Texture

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:30:00 -0400

Ingredion Incorporated has expanded its potato-based solutions with new ULTRA-TEX® 1311 modified potato starch. The waxy, instant starch offers food manufacturers a new way to create premium products with enhanced product appeal and cost savings potential.

Butter Buds: Versatile, Full Flavor

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 07:00:00 -0500

Butter Buds® Inc., a global leader in dairy and non-dairy concentrates, introduces its latest ingredient innovation, Cheese Buds® 32X Cheddar.

Leprino Nutrition: Pure, Clean Casein

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

An exceptional emulsifier, Leprino Nutrition Native Micellar Casein Concentrate (MCC) offers food and beverage manufacturers a clean label replacement for sodium caseinate that also tastes better and has a more efficient cost-in-use.

Ingredion: Clean Label, Cost Saver

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Ingredion Incorporated has introduced TICALOID® Acacia MAX in the U.S. and Canada. The ingredient is a high-performance emulsifier that solves many of the common limitations of traditional acacia.

DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences: All-in-One Solution

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0400

DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences announced the global launch of its DuPont™ YO-MIX® PRIME cultures series. These innovative cultures set a new industry standard for yogurt manufacturers around the world.

DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences: Better Baking

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500

GRINDSTED® NG 100 is a next-generation, non-GMO emulsifier that is highly functional and cost effective. Its primary function is starch complexing, which results in improved crumb softness in yeast-raised baked goods.

On-Trend Innovating: Tapioca Starch in a New Light!

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0400

By manufacturing local to the source, Ingredion is able to manage the entire supply chain, from farm to customer, enabling the company to provide its customers with a consistent, reliable supply with unparalleled traceability.

Advanced Food Systems: Non-Dairy Dairy Replacer

ginsbergr@bnpmedia.com (Ray Ginsberg) — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0500

ReadiCream® ND is a non-dairy, PHO- and allergen-free product that—when hydrated—is designed to be 1:1 replacement for liquid heavy cream or other dairy products. Although replacing real dairy, ReadiCream® ND provides an authentic fresh dairy taste and excellent mouthfeel resulting in no loss of quality in finished product.

Gelita: Smart Technologies

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500

GELITA will use this year’s Food Ingredients Europe (FiE) to showcase various benefits of its novel “Fast Forward Process” and “Particle Engineering” processes, which utilize gelatine and collagen peptides. These new advances are part of the company’s SMART TECHNOLOGY portfolio.

Ingredion: Starch Solution

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500

The texturizer, first available in the United States, helps manufacturers create affordable processed and imitation cheeses that boast improved shred, melt and stretch in dairy and non-dairy applications.