“From mushroom jerky to sparkling honey water, we’ve seen some incredible products that use honey developed in the last 12 months,” Catherine Barry, National Honey Board’s director of marketing, says. “By recognizing some of these products through our Queen’s Choice Award, we’re able to show appreciation to food and beverage manufacturers that choose honey and use it as a flavor, functional ingredient and marketing benefit.”

The drive to satisfy the sweet tooth of the American consumer seems to become more complicated and confusing every year. The realities of the obesity epidemic create a divide that nearly every consumer confronts on a daily basis.

Cascadian Farm, a pioneer in the organic food movement, is working to advance climate-beneficial foods with the launch of its small-batch, limited-edition Honey Toasted Kernza® cereal. 

Here is a quick survey of some of the most notable sauces, marinades and dressing introductions from the past year.

In recent years, even as sucrose has continued to score at the top of consumers’ professed ingredient concerns, nutritive sweeteners and even plain sucrose have shed many of their unwarranted negative connotations to reassert their class as sweeteners of choice for a spectrum of food and beverage formulations.

The Honey Beer Competition was judged by 20 certified judges from the Beer Judge Certification.

The program, which runs through September 2018, involves multiple Post Holdings, Inc. businesses and brands, including Michael Foods and PowerBar. It is designed to provide deep savings for consumers in the breakfast category while promoting more use of honey.

This is the Texas-based company’s first foray into a new food category and drives its mission to provide innovative, real honey-based products to family tables. Nature Nate’s unveiled the new line at the 2018 Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco.

Honey adulteration and the illegal practice of transshipping honey threaten the honey industry in North American by undercutting fair market prices and damaging honey's reputation for quality and safety.

The spicy honey can be used in a variety of party foods and side dishes