In the latest update of the Kalsec® HeatSync® Heat Index, global new product introductions with hot and spicy ingredients increased for a ninth straight year, showing a consistent, growing consumer interest in hot and spicy foods.

The sweetener industry continues to evolve more by consumption than invention. Just as sugar was transformed from a luxury item to a standard on the American table, and then made huge inroads into processed foods, new high-intensity sweeteners are carving out solid ground in the sweetener tool chest.

Reiser, a supplier of food processing and packaging equipment, announced that on March 8 more than 75 food scientists, chefs, and other industry professionals and students came together at Reiser’s Canton, Massachusetts facility for a New England Research Chefs Association educational session.

Global emulsifier/stabilizer specialist Palsgaard announces that the company has become the first industrial company to achieve CO2-neutrality at its Mexican plant, thereby ticking off yet another production site on its to-do-list for achieving its planned global zero-carbon footprint by the end of 2020.

Kraft Food Ingredients announced the addition of Heinz® Ketchup and Lea & Perrins® Worcestershire Sauce along with a variety of Heinz® vinegars, relishes and sauces to its broad portfolio of ingredient solutions.

Ardent Mills, the premier flour-milling and ingredient company, is launching its Great Plains Quinoa™ with the largest quinoa growing network in North America. Ardent Mills will bring transparency, ground breaking scale and the consistent quality needed to support the mainstream growth of quinoa with consumers, food manufacturers, bakeries, retailers and restaurants in the U.S. and Canada.

Based on the success of the ProDry product range, Ohly proudly adds a new product to the company’s line of Non GMO project compliant products.

Health conscious consumers soon will be able to enjoy indulgent foods with drastically fewer calories without sacrificing taste or flavor thanks to Epogee™ (esterified propoxylated glycerol) Fat Replacement. Epogee was developed by Choco Finesse LLC.

Healthy Food Ingredients (HFI) has added several new products to its portfolio of Non-GMO Project Verified ingredients.  One of HFI’s signature products, Suntava Purple Corn®, is now Non-GMO Project Verified in processed forms of flour, meal and grits, available as both organic and non-GMO.