Key trends and opportunities within the U.S. market for flavors center on ever-changing consumer preferences and recent ongoing and anticipated advances in food flavor technology.

It has become a global trend. Food and beverage manufacturers are reformulating; eliminating artificial colors; and replacing them with natural alternatives.

The bright spot in colors appears to be in natural options.

Beaverton Foods is expanding from the specialty condiments aisle to delicatessens and restaurants with its new Pacific Farms Authentic Wasabi.

A Harvard-affiliated hospital is backing away from its decision earlier this week to promote a paper linking the artificial sweetener aspartame and cancer, now saying the evidence was "weak."

Pepsi is launching a reduced-calorie soda in Australia that uses stevia, the first time the beverage maker is using the natural sweetener in its namesake cola.

More children in the U.S. are drinking diet drinks, according to a new study using federal healthy data.

Nestlé has become the first major confectioner to remove artificial colors, flavors and preservatives from its entire range.

They may or may not cause cancer, but the evidence is mounting that they lead to weight gain, rather than weight loss.

New research reveals the secret ingredient of a little red "miracle fruit," which turns sour into sweet.