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Developing comfort foods that are easy-to-prepare, taste great and convenient is not always simple. These are items people expect to have certain qualities, and standards may be higher compared to when consumers try a food that is new or less commonly consumed.

Scoular, a global supply chain company, today launched a new name for its food ingredient business. The new name – Scoular Food Innovation – reflects the company's food industry expertise and experience supplying on-trend ingredients to meet growing consumer demand.

Taste remains the top driver when it comes to food and beverage choices and in the coming year consumers will be motivated by simplicity, sustainability and meeting their nutrition goals.

Having developed a proprietary method for producing low-cost tagatose from plant-based starches, Bonumose is at the forefront of using enzymatic processes to make rare sugars at scale. Starting in mid-February, ASR Group will have tagatose available for initial shipments and samples.

Osage Food Products’ new SolvPro™ Vegan Plant Protein Blends combine different plant proteins and deliver targeted nutritional and functional properties for a wide range of end-use applications. The SolvPro™ product line currently has six SKUs. Each delivers a protein digestibility corrected amino acid score (PDCAAS) of 1.0 and offering different functionalities and benefits.  

Inline Plastics is answering that call and doing so in a sustainable fashion. The company now offers seven new rectangular products in its Essentials Platters line. These all-clear, rectangle-shaped platters are also made with 10% post-consumer content.

Among those in attendance at the groundbreaking were Neil Lumsden, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport and Member of Provincial Parliament for Hamilton East, Victor Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Lisa Thompson, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and Chad Collins, Member of Federal Parliament for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek.

Formulating plant-based products to maximize nutrition and deliver function is a growing opportunity, and selecting the right building blocks in formulation is important. The gap between nutrition delivery and consumer desires is one that can be filled by a new generation and greater variety of products.

Idaho Milk Products congratulated Dr. Venkateswarlu (Venkat) Sunkesula on his recent promotion to vice president of research and product development and welcomes Kevin Quinn as the new vice president of sales and marketing.

Built on a legacy of more than 50 years of product innovation, Kansas Protein Foods produces cost-effective, sustainable textured soy protein products from U.S. soybeans. Kansas Protein Foods manufactures and flavors products at its Hutchinson, Kan., facility, which has received a Level 2 SQF certification.