Check out the October 2021 issue of Prepared Foods, featuring our cover story on flavor maskers and boosters in plant-based foods, how processors are boosting sustainability appeal with packaging and ingredient practices, new candies and confections for retail, and much more.
To attain the coveted clean-label designation, today’s “flavor helpers”—the secondary ingredients needed to mask or block a bitter aftertaste or to enhance a desired flavor (which in turn can mask off notes)—need to be derived from natural ingredients and contain no traces of solvents or similar chemicals.
Today, the challenge is all about making the entire product lifecycle sustainable—from agricultural practices to resource-efficient factories to food waste and packaging waste reduction
Innova Market Insights identified “The Sustain Domain” among Innova’s Top Ten Trends for 2020. Innova also included it among this year’s top trends and themed it as “Transparency Triumphs.” This recognizes the need for efficient communication of “ethical” and “green” credentials.
Product developers have turned to cuisine cultures ranging from Eastern Europe to Turkey to North Africa to bring greater variety, and nutrition, to the humble noodle dish
The next wave of pasta products boasts a world’s worth of influences and a host of new nutritional benefits, all introduced through ingredients novel to noodles and largely nonexistent in the pasta and prepared pasta meal spaces. Exploring beyond Italian and Asian, product developers have turned to cuisine cultures ranging from Eastern Europe to Turkey to North Africa to bring greater variety, and nutrition, to the humble noodle dish.
Whether making a cup, a quart, or 1,000 gallons, coffee involves careful preparation that starts with choosing the right source, the best beans, and the preferred roast
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.”
Faced with ongoing uncertainty and disruption of COVID-19, consumers have turned to familiar, comforting retail products to find emotional support. In particular, many categories of packaged desserts and confections are enjoying greater sales and frozen desserts, in particular, are thriving.