The popularity of Vietnamese food and beverages has continued to grow in the US, alongside other Asian cuisine. Enhancing the proverbial “sweet spot” in a trending Vietnamese food by incorporating trusted ingredients can transform a traditional Vietnamese dish into a new variation.

Butter Buds Inc., a global leader in dairy and non-dairy concentrates, released a video highlighting how the team’s application experts help food manufacturers overcome formulation challenges. The team shares insight into new food innovations made possible as Butter Buds continues to push the boundaries of flavor technology, with clean label, organic and dairy alternative solutions for today’s marketplace.

The debate will kick off programming for IFT FIRST: Annual Event and Expo, taking place July 10-13 at McCormick Place in Chicago and available on livestream.

In the United States, specifically, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025 call for consumers to “limit foods and beverages higher in added sugars” to less than 10% of daily calories. Research shows the top sources of added sugars in the US diet include sugar-sweetened beverages, desserts and sweet snacks, sweetened coffee and tea, and candy.

Available for a limited time only, this decadent creamer combines the creaminess of oat milk with the flavor experience of a scoop of mint chip ice cream. It blends into hot or iced coffee and turns morning brew into a flavored, creamy cup. 

Plant-based queso sales have grown 94% in the last 52 weeks, with the overall plant-based cheese category estimated to have grown to $234M in recent years.

This next major milestone demonstrates Remilk's continued leadership in the rapidly developing category by offering consumers animal-free dairy products identical to its traditional counterparts but free of lactose, cholesterol, and hormones, thus severing the dairy supply chain's reliance on animals.

Titled ‘How to Navigate Supply Chain Disruptions, Essential Strategies to Meeting Consumer Expectations, This session explores reformulation and product design considerations, as well as consumer research strategies when companies are forced to substitute alternate ingredients due to supply chain disruption

Kemin Food Technologies has enhanced its North American website with a new interactive guide titled, “Baking a difference today and tomorrow.” The guide for bakery and snack producers helps users learn more about clean label solutions to ensure products stay fresher, longer and succeed in the dynamic and competitive marketplace.

Amidst turbulent economic conditions amplified by the pandemic, supply chain issues, and inflation, new data released by the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA), The Good Food Institute (GFI), and SPINS, shows US retail sales of plant-based foods grew 6.2% in 2021 over a record year of growth in 2020, bringing the total plant-based market value to an all-time high of $7.4 billion.