Call them bits, pieces, inclusions, mix-ins, or add-ins, inclusions bring both flavor and textural elements to foods. Color, too, can make it to the show by way of inclusions.
Teasing out the nutrition factors that influence heart health is challenging, because the task is complicated by the modern trend toward obesity and sedentary lifestyle
Many of the nutritional factors that reduce the risk for heart disease are essential parts of well-known dietary staples. At least, staples for some. Many such foods and ingredients are not necessarily staples in the modern Western diet.
An innovation leader's views on cakes and desserts
November 8, 2018
Prepared Foods talks culinary menu and dessert trends with Stacie Sopinka, senior vice president, innovation and quality, US Foods, a leading foodservice distributor based in Rosemont, Ill.
After a decade or more of focusing largely on the needs, preferences, and behaviors of Millennials, the food industry is ready to focus its attention on Gen Z.
Cake creation is a many layered topic. There are snack cakes, cupcakes, cheesecakes, yeast cakes, fruitcakes, and even boozy Bundt-style cakes. For cake makers and bakers, as well as sellers and consumers, staying on top of cake trends is essential.
Powdered palm oil-based emulsifiers make it easy to create a non-PHO recipe with a very similar mouthfeel and texture to the PHO-containing original
November 26, 2018
Activated powdered emulsifiers are unlike ordinary food ingredient emulsifiers. While the latter are usually carried on shortening, powdered emulsifiers are activated on starch in a highly sophisticated extrusion process.
C.W. Brabender supplies lab and plant testing, analytical and processing equipment to several industries—including the baking, starch, pasta/noodle, snack food, dairy and brewing segments
November 20, 2018
When you specialize in analytical instruments and equipment, your products not only have to be precise—but they need to be perfect, of high quality. That's the standard held by C.W. Brabender Instruments Inc. and its German parent, Brabender GmbH & Co. KG.
Petal organic sparkling botanical blends, FODMAP foods and Omega Pals collection of Omega-3 + eye protection supplements make up this month's collection
November 13, 2018
Prepared Foods takes a look at new better-for-you foods, drinks and supplements introduced in November 2018.
It's fall, a time when outdoor plants slow down in advance of winter. Then again, you could say the plant-based foods market still is in its budding, spring season.