Food & Beverage

Icon Foods has announced two new offering to modify sweetness in clean-label foods and beverages: CirtruSweet and ThauSweet.

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Blue California launches clean-label, food-grade whitening agents, as a replacement for the white colorant titanium dioxide for use in products such as chewing gum, candies, pastries, chocolates, coffee creamers, and cake decorations.

International Taste Solutions launched a range of natural flavor enhancers –Vegan Boost – in liquid and powder formats to replicate the characteristics of traditional bakery minus the eggs and dairy.

The Hatchery Chicago is now home to Univar Solution’s new Food Solution Center, part of a specialized network of Solution Centers throughout the world.

Solace Nutrition, a medical nutrition company, has acquired the assets of R-Kane Nutritionals, which specializes in high protein meal replacement solutions for the weight management market.

Experts predict 2022’s hottest food and beverage flavor trends.

Aleph Farms and Wacker announced the development of streamlined production processes for essential growth medium proteins to cost-effectively grow cultivated meat.

Loryma, a member of the Crespel & Deiters group, is offering two alternatives to the white pigment titanium dioxide, which will no longer be recognized by the European Food Safety Authority as safe to use in food.

The patented microalgal heme substitute not only provides the initial red pigment to raw plant-based meats, but it also browns nicely and congeals like real meat juices.

It is based on functionalized calcium carbonate particles that have undergone a patented recrystallization process to create a new mineral composition and structure.

Advances in food technology have made the idea of healthy indulgences possible.

Gathered Foods has announced that its co-founder and executive chair Chris Kerr, and co-founder and chief culinary officer Chad Sarno were named UBS Global Visionaries.

Consumers’ growing search for brain health, immune health, mood support, and more will continue driving functional foods long after COVID-19.

Ardent Mills has officially acquired substantially all the business assets of Firebird Artisan Mills, a gluten-free, specialty grain and pulse milling company.

The formula is uses soluble fibers, monk fruit, and select botanicals; it delivers optimal sweetening capacity without the need for masking agents and does not leave any lingering aftertastes.

With the discovery and commercialization of what may be a new essential fatty acid, Seraphina Therapeutics is poised to become a leader in developing scientifically substantiated nutritional solutions.

Leader in the small, but growing, plant-based seafood space, Good Catch Foods is making the category more accessible through its aggressive expansion into food service.

Cosun Beet Company, Ingredion Inc., Matsutani Chemical Industry, and Samyang Corp. have formed a new consortium designed to help bring allulose to the European Union and United Kingdom, and support its nutritional labeling as a carbohydrate.

Here’s what analysts say to expect of healthy drinks as consumers return to their normal schedules post-pandemic.

Global leader of caramel colors for the food and beverage industries, Sethness Roquette, has selected IMCD US Food & Nutrition as the exclusive U.S. distributor of its caramel colors effective Jan. 1, 2022. 

CK Ingredients is collaborating with The Protein Brewery to commercialize Fermotein in key human nutrition categories such as bakery products, extruded snacks, and breakfast foods.

FrieslandCampina Ingredients has entered the plant-based protein market with two powder solutions developed in collaboration with AGT Foods.

Florida Food Products is assuming majority ownership of Comax Flavors from the Calabretta family, which will maintain an ownership stake in the business going forward.

The future of fiber ingredients looks bright.