Food & Beverage

Suppliers in just about every segment of the ingredients market face supply shortages from time to time. But flavor firms, in particular, have added challenges to deal with.

The new corn-derived starch can “accept high-quality imprintation, including shapes and letters” in confectionery and gummy applications, ADM says.

Just one day after FDA finally issued its revised new dietary ingredient (NDI) draft guidance for dietary supplements, the agency today released its Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) final rule for food ingredients.

Two years ahead of FDA’s deadline to list added sugars on nutrition labels, KIND has posted the published the added sugar content of more than 60 of its products on its website.

It may be easy to think of fiber as a uniform category of ingredients, but is soluble fiber getting the attention it deserves?

At IFT, TerraVia (San Francisco) showed show visitors how its algae-based powders and oils can work in everything from French fries to cookies.

At IFT 2016, dairy experts spoke about how the high-protein trend needs to extend to consumers young and old.

Has Reb A been eclipsed by newer stevia superstars? Stevia suppliers talked about this and other stevia trends at IFT 2016.

Tate & Lyle and Beneo both unveiled new ingredients that meet the demands for label transparency while providing food formulators with rigorous performance and good sensory attributes.

Forget chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla! Sports nutrition products are exploring advanced, dessert-style flavors.

The USDA now has two years to hammer out details for implementing the federal GMO-disclosure law.

Ganeden and Avoke will be working together to launch a new line of avocado-based smoothie bowls with probiotics.

From cat scans to particle structure, ingredient suppliers are using advanced methods to help food formulators cut sodium.

PLT Health Solutions says its new PhytoShield technology delivers an anti-microbial preservative effect on par with many synthetic ingredients.

Everyone wants a piece of the growing plant protein market.

Hot ingredients cocoa and probiotics are looking to cash in on another ingredient superstar: high protein.

Fiber suppliers at this year’s Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting & Food Expo told Nutritional Outlook that while they are confident FDA will eventually consider their ingredients to be dietary fibers, the path to FDA approval is unclear.

Innova Market Insights reports that vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian consumers offer emerging opportunities for plant-based meat substitutes.

Depending on pH, the new food color delivers a “vibrant red to purple hue” in applications including juice drinks, yogurt, salad dressing, and cereals.

A new voluntary initiative from the Beer Institute encourages beer companies to list calories, carbohydrates, protein, and fat content on beer labels.

The new FruitWorx Concord grape juice powder is appropriate for confectionery, baked goods, snacks, dry beverages, pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, and more, says Welch’s.

SPINS and IRI launch a new tool designed to bring the depth of consumer insight pioneered in conventional-channel analysis to natural-channel data.

If the bill were to pass, companies could disclose GMO ingredients through on-package text, symbols, or digital codes that direct consumers to more information online.

Fruit d’Or’s new gummy includes 250 mg of Cran Naturelle cranberry prebiotic powder and one billion CFUs of Sabinsa’s LactoSpore probiotic.

The new agreement makes ADM the exclusive global marketer and distributor of an “extensive array of low-calorie sweeteners” produced by GLG.

Turmeric is the darling of the natural products market. What have we learned lately about turmeric and its active constituent, curcumin?

The plant-based food and drink industry is going through one heck of a growth spurt.

Which artificial preservatives do consumers want removed, and what are the alternatives?

Clean-label, better-for-you options are taking over the soft drinks space.

D.D. Williamson adds two new colors to its EmulsiTech line of clear liquid color emulsions.