Innova Market Insights identifies the plant-based revolution is one of the world’s top trends. And that’s with good reason: the market for plant-based foods shows double-digit growth. 

Many of today’s busy consumers are juggling their careers, families and social lives while striving to maintain healthy lifestyles, both physically and mentally. Food and diet plays an essential role in this, with innovation increasingly looking to support consumer choices as many endeavor to balance the benefits and costs of these hectic lifestyles.

DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences announced the global launch of its DuPont™ YO-MIX® PRIME cultures series. These innovative cultures set a new industry standard for yogurt manufacturers around the world. 

How can a company revitalize its innovation program—from consumer insights all the way through R&D and packaging? Prepared Foods put that question and others to Mario DiFalco, senior director of Innovation& New Ventures at Del Monte Foods Inc.

Curion, a leading research and consumer product testing firm recently launched LifeLabs.™ an in context-testing approach that allows brands to study the way consumers use their products. Rather than a test kitchen or sensory laboratory, LifeLabs™ conducts product testing in real life settings. 

Global food and beverage manufacturers can now create and collaborate on exploring sugar reduction solutions with SweeGen in its newly launched Food and Beverage Application Centers located in four global regions --- North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

To tackle the growing consumer need of clean labels and lead the drive towards more vegetarian and vegan food product options, ROHA USA LLC has developed Natracol Cerise, a high strength red beet-based food color capable of handling high temperatures in bakery and prepared foods applications. 

Food Ingredient Solutions LLC is pleased to introduce organic purple sweet potato color. Purple sweet potato color is already widely used to provide stable fuschia or pink to red shades in still and carbonated beverages and grape tones in apple based drinks. 

A Star is Born is one of Innova Market Insights Top Ten Trends for 2020 (number 8), highlighting how the food industry continues to experiment with novel and unusual ingredients in order to move them into the mainstream. This trend is driven by rising consumer familiarity and acceptance of their roles and potential benefits.

Tate & Lyle, a global provider of food and beverage ingredients and solutions, announced the most recent addition to its line of CLARIA® Clean Label Starches with the introduction of CLARIA EVERLAST®.