Winston Boyd PhD

Winston Boyd PhD

Winston Boyd, PhD, is a food industry consultant with expertise in technology, operations, regulatory, and food-safety affairs, as well as M&A and business development strategies. In addition to his business activities, Dr. Boyd has authored a number of trade articles on food and ingredient technology. He has helped organize and presented at international symposia on food colorant technology. He can be reached at colordoc@execpc.com or through Prepared Foods magazine.

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Premixes Mix it Up

At the root of any sound process is the formulation; with rare exceptions, getting things precise at this fundamental stage is the most critical step
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Winston Boyd PhD
January 11, 2016
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With ingredients that make up the large proportion of a formulation, process is relatively simple.


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Hard Boiled Crisis

Avian flu led to a great fall in the egg industry, but scientists have been working to replicate the incredible, edible egg’s functional capabilities
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Winston Boyd PhD
August 27, 2015
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The image of migrating water fowl as a natural sign of the changing of the seasons. But sometimes, there’s more to the picture. This year, a form of avian flu spread by those gracefully migrating birds led to the deaths of millions of Midwestern turkeys and laying hens—and a subsequent shortage of eggs.
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Coloring Within the Lines

The appearance of any food or beverage has an enormous impact on the consumer’s evaluation of its quality, freshness, palatability and healthfulness
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Winston Boyd PhD
April 9, 2015
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When a chef prepares a dish, he/she pays attention to more than just execution of a recipe or cooking process.
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Premixes for Ingredient Systems

Whether referred to as premixes or preblends, the precise combining of ingredients into a single system allows processors to control consistency, as well as costs
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Winston Boyd PhD
January 13, 2015
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A preblend or premix is a mixture of components that have been blended together, in-house or by an ingredient supplier, and provided to a processor as a preliminary step in the production of a final food or beverage product.
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