The October 2018 issue of Prepared Foods features our cover story on formulating with nutritive sweeteners for clean label appeal, winners of the 2018 Spirit of Innovation Awards, and much more.
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.
Fortification, whether in the form of single ingredients or premixes of multiple ingredients has been a game-changer in better-for-you formulation for years
Fortification is no longer perceived as simple supplementation. Rather, it is accepted as a reliable means to ensure daily intake of essential nutrients at every age.
While the media are abuzz with news of meat and dairy analogs from sources such as such as algae, insects, microbial biomass, and cultivated animal, plants still rule the meat and dairy substitute kingdom.
For every application from soups to desserts, potatoes are an essential addition to the traditional list of potential fillers, binders and extenders. Potatoes impart a neutral flavor and ideal texture to achieve a smooth, even and moist finished product.
For its part, Prepared Foods believes new product development is a team sport and PF's 16th annual "Spirit of Innovation" (SOI) awards honor those food and beverage manufacturer teams collaborating and creating distinct new products that stand out in their respective markets.
thinkThin Protein & Probiotics Oatmeal, O2 Natural Recovery beverages, Welch's Sparkling Plus Energy and Collagen Nut Butters make up this month's collection
October 22, 2018
Prepared Foods takes a look at new better-for-you drinks and supplements introduced in October 2018.
Pizza night is a weekly tradition for two-thirds of consumers, and unlike most foods, pizza is primarily sourced away from home instead of purchased at retail or made from scratch.