Food & Beverage

The clean-label, dry form of Vitamin A can be used to fortify wheat flour to reduce malnutrition worldwide.

DHSS to prioritize misbranded intoxicating hemp products in enforcement of Governor's executive order.

Howtian has launched an unrefined golden stevia extract called SoPure Dorado.

Mosaic Flavors (Chino, CA) has announced the acquisition of First Coast Flavors (Jacksonville, FL) to enhance Mosaic’s position as a premier provider of high quality, customizable flavor solutions.

The new ingredient uses upcycled yeast as a sustainable and functional alternative to eggs.

The Attorney General's office says that non-alcoholic beverages with hemp-derived tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) with concentrations of delta-9 THC of no more than 0.3% are legal in South Carolina, assuming you can verify they meet this threshold.

The bill regulates the sale and distribution of products containing synthetic THC, though some challenges remain to be resolved.

Understanding FODMAPs and how low-FODMAP diets are implemented.

The new range is the result of a recently acquired majority stake in Azerys, a specialist in rosemary extraction.

GNC has announced that Huel products will now be available in GNC stores and on GNC.com.

Dsm-firmenich has announced that its human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) ingredients – 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL) and lacto-N-fucopentaose I/2'-fucosyllactose (LNFP-I/2'-FL) mixture – have been approved as a novel food ingredients by the United Kingdom and European Union.

The Missouri Hemp Trade Association has filed a lawsuit in the Cole County Circuit Court seeking to prevent the Missouri DHSS from designating food and beverage products containing psychoactive cannabinoids derived from hemp as adulterated and implementing an embargo.

Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) is on track to “embargo and condemn” products that contain intoxicating cannabinoids starting September 1, 2024 in accordance to an executive order signed by the state’s governor, Michael L. Parsons.

Xampla has announced that Lehmann Ingredients will be the first distributor partner to supply the company’s nutrient microencapsulation technology to FMCG brands and supply chain partners in the United Kingdom.

The joint venture, called Gradable, will expand the Gradable technology platform originally introduced in 2020 to track sustainable and regenerative agricultural practices and outcomes.

Helaina has launched an ingredient called effera, which it claims is the first human lactoferrin equivalent manufactured using precision fermentation.

Trends driving innovation in frozen foods.

Better Juice expands its sugar-reduction technology from juice to fruit sorbets, offering reduced sugar and calorie content while retaining flavor.

Polyphenol-fingerprinting with NMR is considered by many research scientists to be among the most accurate analytical tools used for botanical identification testing, ensuring purity, authenticity, and consistency.

The Humble Seed will join Manitoba Harvest as part of the Fresh Hemp Foods Ltd. portfolio of brands.

Recent research conducted by ILSI U.S. and Canada – a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to advancing precompetitive research in the food, nutrition and health realms – and partially funded by Balchem, has shed light on how to improve predictions of Ca bioavailability across different food matrices.

According to the company, this marks the first expanded use of shea stearin in new food categories since 1998.

According to the company, when used in poultry, OptiBind can help processors increase brine pickup by 19% compared to sodium tripolyphosphate to increase their products’ juiciness and flavor, as well as ensure higher cook yield after storage.

A recent study found that a non-genetically modified, wild-type fructanase preparation manufactured by Bio-Cat as Optiziome Fructanase (previously known as Optiziome Inulinase) was well-tolerated and safe, compared to placebo.

FDA has agreed that four ingredients in Arla Foods’ Peptigen and Lacprodan ranges meet the definition for peptones in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, therefore permitting it for use in early life nutrition.