Food Gums: Everything You Need to Know
Peek at the ingredients label on your favorite salad dressing, non-dairy milk and myriad other packaged food and beverage products. There’s a good chance you’ll find gum additives. Food engineers rely on different types of gums to create delicious, stable, and safe consumer products. Even if you’re just noticing the prevalence of gum ingredients in…
2024 International Production and Processing Expo
IPPE 2024 is an exceptional opportunity to connect with more than 30,000 expo visitors from more than 100 countries. Every year, IPPE in Atlanta serves as a vital source of connection and education, drawing some of the brightest minds in the meat and poultry industry. We relish the chance to learn, connect and lend our…
Fragrance Applications in Everyday Life
Countless consumer goods that Americans use daily feature fragrance ingredients. We rely on fragrance ingredients to enhance products that play an integral role in our lives, from cosmetics to cleaning supplies. As distributors, we help our manufacturing partners source the highest quality ingredients to put the best possible product in the hands of consumers. How…
How Fragrances Are Made: A Century of Innovation
Fragrance chemistry has a long history of technical innovation that has shaped industrial processes, consumer habits, and social standards around the globe. The fundamentals of fragrance chemistry have been scaled to create natural and synthetic fragrances to meet specific product functions in entirely new ways. Understanding Fragrance Chemistry The basic components of any fragrance remain…
Commodity vs. Specialty: What’s the Difference?
Commoditized products are the base input components in nearly every finished consumer and industrial good. While some variables exist between industries, commodities are the raw materials used to create everything from Coca-Cola to antifreeze. Specialty components are also integral to production but aren’t quite the same as a commodity. The difference? Here’s a refresher from…
Probiotic Supplementation: The Right Strain Matters
Food and beverage manufacturers aren’t phased by fast-changing consumer demand. Over the past five years, the functional foods category has grown substantially faster than the broader market. One of the key drivers of the segment has been probiotics – and that trend is expected to accelerate. As the marketplace gets increasingly competitive, manufacturers are putting…
The Sweet Science: Food Chemistry’s Contribution to Quality Products
Food chemistry is one of the respected and important subsets of the food sciences. The field requires multidisciplinary expertise, including a deep understanding of both traditional and engineering food components. From feeding the world’s growing population to overcoming serious supply chain challenges, food chemistry advances have consistently risen to meet emerging challenges. What Is Food…
The Role of Sustainable Functional Ingredients for Meat and Poultry Products
Many of the food additives in meat products are vital to putting a safe and enjoyable product on store shelves. As consumer sentiment has refocused on the sustainability of meat and poultry consumption, industry leaders have proactively evaluated the environmental impact of those added ingredients. From production to processing to the dinner table, the meat…
The Benefits of Functional Foods
Functional foods, also called nutraceuticals, support healthy and active lifestyles by providing nutrient supplementation, disease prevention and growth. Consumer demand for all types of nutraceuticals has increased significantly over the past decade and competition within the market segment has increased accordingly. Manufacturers are constantly reevaluating their functional food offerings to align with shifting consumer demand….
The Future of Lab-Grown Meat
Meat has always had a place at the table. Americans eat nearly 300 pounds of red meat and poultry per person each year. However, consumption has declined slightly over the past two decades, largely driven by changing attitudes toward health and sustainability. As consumer values and tastes change, and the global economy faces the realities…
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