McCormick & Company unveiled 40 new products to help home cooks prepare fall and holiday meals.

She’s ranked among the nation’s top 50 futurists. However, Nancy Giordano, founder of Play Big Inc., Austin, Texas, brings so much more to the table! Nancy also is a veteran strategist who strives to better leverage the powerful possibilities that exist at the intersection of business trends, societal needs and authentic brand stories.

Arby’s released its first PurposeFULL report highlighting progress across its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) platform.

Once valued for their thickening and textural properties, these starches— starches that have not been treated to change their inherent properties—were pushed aside by the modified starches that better withstand the rigors of modern food-processing techniques, including freeze/thaw, shear, pressure, heat, refrigeration, and other assaults, allowing them to extend product shelflife.

Nielsen announced the 2016 U.S. Nielsen Breakthrough Innovation Award winners. Nielsen’s annual Breakthrough Innovation Awards recognize America’s unsung household heroes. In conjunction with announcing the winners, Nielsen also issued the fifth edition of the U.S. Breakthrough Innovation Report at Nielsen’s U.S. Consumer 360 event in Las Vegas.

Currently, only 12% of consumers rank brands as their most trusted resource for information about what is in their own food, but 67% of consumers believe it is the brand or manufacturer's responsibility to provide consumers with this information, demonstrating a clear gap between consumer expectations and the information brands are providing.

Meal kit delivery services have exploded since their introduction in 2012, bridging the space between home-cooked meals and takeout. Meant to solve the perennial problem of "what's for dinner?," the services offer people a convenient way to cook at home without having to do the meal planning and grocery shopping.

From bites, barks and thins to unconventional ingredients, the newest products continue to evolve.

#DoPlants is trending and the recent attention being paid to plant proteins, both by ordinary consumers and the food industry, begs the question, are consumers more willing to eat less meat to help save the planet than they are to reduce their own chances of developing heart disease?