Five key 2023 trends from Innova Market Insights present opportunities for almonds, as an accessible, sustainable, and nutritious plant-based ingredient, to play a valuable role in keeping up with consumer and market demands.

Camino Partners' team of strategic operators steered every stage of KIND's journey to becoming one of the most trusted brands in food, taking KIND from concept to multi-billion-dollar platform with only $5M in primary investment.

With decades of experience in recipe development and creation, not only as one of the co-founders of Sunbasket but also in dozens of restaurants and as a contestant on "Iron Chef America," Kelly will oversee the brand's new Jenny Fresh line and lead all future food innovation in her new role.

This annual report combines leading industry research findings with the latest data from T. Hasegawa’s product development and marketing teams to analyze what consumers are looking for in food and beverage categories and predict upcoming trends through next year.

Premixes range from the mandated vitamins and minerals for addressing nutrient shortfalls to trendy ingredients like turmeric, ginger, activated charcoal, collagen, and botanical bioactives that consumers believe are healthier for them.

Prepared Foods used the recent Food Ingredients Europe (FiE) exhibition in Paris as an opportunity to interview with Fabienne Saadane-Oaks, CEO, for ABF Ingredients (ABFI), one of five divisions belonging to the Associated British Foods Group plc, London. 

McCormick For Chefs® announced the 23rd Edition of the Flavor Forecast, the brand’s annual report on the latest culinary trends shaping the way millions of consumers, chefs, and food professionals prepare and enjoy food worldwide. Along with the trends report, the McCormick global culinary team also announced its inaugural Flavor of the Year: Vietnamese x Cajun Style Seasoning.

Farrell brings more than a decade of food industry experience to CBCI from top tier CPG companies, including PepsiCo and Unilever. Most recently, she was the R&D manager for a prominent Chicago bread and bakery company.

Firmenich, a privately-owned fragrance and taste company, announced its 2023 Flavor of the Year, dragon fruit, celebrating consumers' desire for exciting new ingredients and bold, adventurous flavor creation.

The Finnish company Foodiq has developed a new ingredient that can finally allow plant-based food alternatives to go global. The ingredient, called Fabea+, is made from fermented fava beans and offers a more nutritious, sustainable, and scalable alternative to mainstream ingredients used in the plant-based market, such as soy, pea or oats.