Articles by David Feder , RDN

Spoonful of Spices

Top Research Chef Explores the Technical Side of Several Hot Flavor Trends

Flavor Forward
Stephen Kalil, CEC, CRC
Stephen Kalil CEC, CRC
David Feder
David Feder , RDN
July 25, 2018
Multiple trend reports have pointed to a rapidly expanding interest in the cuisines of North Africa and the Middle East. For product developers wishing to serve this consumer trend, the key to an authentic experience is to unlock the taste and flavor through the ingredients and spices that bring accuracy to the flavor profiles that define these cuisines.
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Kiss the Ground

Food and beverage makers can count on consumers digging deeper into trends
David Feder
David Feder , RDN
June 8, 2018
With each cycle of these shows, we’re privileged to encounter the vanguard of the trends in food, ingredients, and food tech. You could look at those as sort of the breadcrumbs along the path of where we’re heading in “Food World.” But sometimes, everything converges so that you also get a look at the substance of the path itself.
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Job Security: Winning Consumers at an Early Age

The upcoming 2020 USDA will add babies as an age group to its nutrition recommendations in its Dietary Guidelines
David Feder
David Feder , RDN
April 5, 2018
Last year, the focus was on teens. This year, our inestimable experts, Dr. Keith-Thomas Ayoob (clinical professor emeritus of the Department of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYC) and Jill Litwin (founder and CEO of Peas of Mind LLC, award-winning makers of foods for little ones) swing their attention to the other side of the playground and take a look at babies and infants, the 0-2 age group, in "Building Better Babies."
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2018 Predictions: Fats & Oils

Trends in Fats and Oils

Oil's Well: Health and ecological responsibility are real trends in fats and oils
David Feder
David Feder , RDN
December 21, 2017
Trends in food oils happen at a slower pace. That's because it can take years to develop, grow, and cultivate oilseed (or other sources) and bring the final product to market.
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2018 Predictions: Colors

Predicted Food Color Technologies for 2018

Color technology advances are a "natural"
David Feder
David Feder , RDN Matthias Guentert PhD
November 28, 2017
Although green might be the symbolic color of nature, red is definitely the color of the Back to Nature flag. This has nothing to with leftist politics; natural reds have been at the forefront of the tidal shift from artificial to natural colorings in foods and beverages, pushed ahead to replace the now-spurned Red Dye #40 and bug-derived cochineal colorants.
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Send Flowers

The future is sunny for oil and seeds from the big yellow sunflower
David Feder
David Feder , RDN
September 22, 2017
The upcoming ban on trans-fats has sent many processors scrambling to fill the functional shoes while bettering the health profile of their products that previously were cooked in or contained the partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) that are the main source of the offending fat form.
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Of Rice and Men

It’s getting near to impossible these days to find a food or beverage that doesn’t have some kind of social ingredient on the label
David Feder
David Feder , RDN
September 15, 2017
I coined the term “social ingredient” to encompass all those factors that are not physical ingredients but important components of a product nonetheless. I predicted that such social ingredients would soon be the most important food ingredients in the industry.
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