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The Organic Trade Association celebrates USDA's $58 million boost for organic dairy farmers.

Ohly’s Customer Innovation Center boasts an array of commercial equipment to mimic industry processes, including combi convection cooking, frying, meat processing, snack coating, and blast chilling. It provides a space where customers can work with Ohly’s application team on refining tailored recipe solutions and developing new ideas in line with the latest food trends. 

Data from Innova Market Insights suggest that the growing interest in plant-based protein sources and expanding awareness of protein’s importance for health and wellness are fueling the demand. This continuing trend has manufacturers seeking novel ingredients and pathways to provide protein to satisfy the demand.

Editor’s Note: How is rice, a global ingredient staple, influencing new menu offerings and retail product development? For a closer look, Prepared Foods turned to Katie Ayoub, president of Katie Ayoub & Associates. She serves as managing editor at Flavor & The Menu and is a content strategist for the Flavor Experience, an annual conference for chain operators. Based in Chicago, Katie has been working in foodservice publishing for more than 25 years.

Editor’s Note: For a comprehensive 2025 look at all the angles associated with regenerative agriculture, Prepared Foods interviewed Tina Owens, founder of Snowehaven Regeneration and a strategist and futurist within the US organic and regenerative agriculture movements. 

Born from a collaboration between Thai and American sauce enthusiasts, Racha’s sauces are crafted with one-of-a-kind, USDA-certified organic Racha peppers cultivated exclusively on their organic farm in northern Thailand.

In far northwest Washington, just a few miles below Canada, rural Lynden, Wash., produces approximately 90% of the nation’s annual frozen red raspberry crop. Geographically, it’s a world away from downtown Chicago—the striking contrast of Mount Baker towering over green farm fields to Chicago skyscrapers towering over a broad metropolitan area.

What sets AZ-ZERO apart is its use of monk fruit as a natural sweetener, delivering flavor without calories. Made with real lemons and natural flavors, AZ-ZERO is a choice for health-conscious consumers seeking a guilt-free lemonade experience.

Made with a unique oat and pea blend, Silk Kids delivers 8g of plant protein per serving to help support muscle health, DHA omega-3 and choline to help support brain health, and prebiotics that are good for bellies.

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.