Kimberly Decker

Kimberly Decker is a Bay Area food writer with a food science degree from University of California, Davis. She has worked in product development for the frozen sector and written about food, nutrition, and the culinary arts, “getting her hands into everything from cookbook projects for local chefs to corporate communications.” She appears regularly as a guest contributor in the pages of multiple food industry journals, including Prepared Foods magazine’s sister publication, Dairy Foods. Contact her at kim@decker.net or through the BNP family of publications.

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Flavor Innovation, New SKUs in Cracker Category

Consumers look for better-for-you crackers, as well as nostalgic brand names
Kimberly Decker
March 4, 2022

“I’d never had a cauliflower cracker growing up,” recalls King, the senior marketing manager at Mary’s Gone Crackers, Reno, NV. “And the idea of ‘gluten-free’ was unheard of. The ingredient lists on most of the crackers I ate were a lot longer, too.”


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Barry Callebaut’s Cocoa Production in West Africa

Cocoa producer aims to strike a balance between cocoa quality and sustainability
Kimberly Decker
February 20, 2018
That landscape lay in the Ashanti region of Ghana, which was where I found myself late last November, a guest of Zürich-based Barry Callebaut, one of the world’s largest cocoa producers. The company had invited more than a dozen journalists to this part of West Africa to impress upon us the challenges it faces as it tries to secure a stable, sustainable supply of quality cocoa for the world’s delectation.
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What do added sugars add up to?

Consumer confusion, perhaps. But declaring added sugars on Nutrition Facts panels will be required by July 2018. Here are ways to cut down on sugar declarations without sacrificing sweetness.
Kimberly Decker
April 7, 2017

When Stonyfield, America’s leading organic yogurt manufacturer, announced a comprehensive plan to reduce added sugars across its product line by 25% before this autumn’s end, Nichole Cirillo, the Londonderry-N.H. company’s mission director, stated in a press release that the mission is “to continually provide healthier food both for our consumers and the planet.”


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