Prepared Foods invites you to explore Umamizyme^TM Pulse from Amano Enzyme, a powerful specialty food enzyme that transforms plant products into a savory experience that rivals the flavor and texture of animal meats.

By bringing dried beans from American farms directly to American consumers, Balanced Bushel, a new CPG bean and pulse line by grain, bean, and pulse supplier Columbia Grain International (CGI), offers this cheaper protein source with minimum processing and maximum nutrition. 

Americans still are not meeting the recommended intake levels for dietary fiber, a nutritional failure that can lead to the development of a number of health issues down the road. The shortfall is so critical that the new “Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025” has designated dietary fiber as “a dietary component of public health concern.”

Prepared Foods talks with Christine Farkas, a chef consultant and founder of IHeartFood Consulting, a food product and culinary consulting firm in Vancouver, B.C.

In May 2016, the US FDA shook the fiber world when it released its long awaited final rule Nutrition and Supplement Facts Label Regulations. Several previously approved fibers, including oat fiber and inulin, were excluded from the new definitions. Customers have been left in limbo, wondering whether they need to be scrambling to find another fiber.