Three of Innova Market Insights’ Top Ten Trends for 2021 have everything to do with health (including immunity, food and mood and “nutrition hacking”). Meanwhile, Innova also identifies “transparency” as another key topic resonating with today’s consumers. This focus relates to the ethical, ecological and clean label aspects of a new product.

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. 

Epogee unveiled a completely redesigned website at www.epogee.com. It give food and beverage manufacturers an informative and efficient experience that is easy to navigate. The site showcases EPG, an alternative fat technology that appears on ingredient labels as “GMO-free modified plant-based oil.” 

Prepared Foods talks dips, sauces and condiment trends with David Bezenyei, sales manager, Columbus Vegetable Oils. Based in Des Plaines, Ill., Columbus Vegetable Oils produces a wide range of sauces, dressings, condiments and oils for private label and contract manufacturing customers. Likewise, it supplies a Butcher Boy sauce line to foodservice operators.

Already positioned as an innovative leader in protein ingredients, Essentia Protein Solutions has added a High Fat Beef Broth Powder to the company’s line of multi-species Broths, Stocks and Fats. Currently available in conventional form, this new high fat beef broth broadens Essentia’s line of clean label ingredients.

To support new and emerging start-up companies developing alternative meat and dairy products and to create further collaboration opportunities with some of the most recognized players in the food industry, AAK AB (publ.) will invest in Big Idea Ventures' (BIV) New Protein Fund I.

Sauces, dressings, and condiments, such as mayonnaise, benefit in obvious ways from the emulsifying properties of the egg yolk. While it is easy to observe the importance of a stable emulsion in mayonnaise or a dressing where one can witness the battle between immiscible liquids (typically water and fat) as they strive to separate from each other, emulsifiers play an important although less obvious role in other formulations. 

Titled “Cooking up a fat revolution with EPG,” this new resource discusses consumer dynamics and highlights EPG, an alternative fat technology—labelled as a GMO-free modified plant-based oil—that helps manufacturers dramatically lower calories without compromising the taste, texture or functionality of a wide variety of food and beverage applications. 

AAK, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of value-adding specialty vegetable fats and oils, has received CCOF (California Certified Organic Farmers) certification at AAK facilities in Richmond, Calif., and Port Newark, N.J. The AAK portfolio of fat and oil solutions now includes organic sunflower, coconut, soy, canola and safflower oils.

Profile Food Ingredients (PFI) introduces its latest product line for traditional and non-traditional frozen dessert applications. Many vegan and keto products in the frozen dessert market tend to have issues providing the stability, consistency of texture, and mouthfeel—when compared to traditional dairy frozen desserts.