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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.

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. 

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

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.

"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."

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. 

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 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. 

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.