Health and wellness, safety, social impact, experience and transparency are key drivers in consumer purchase decisions
March 9, 2016
A study released in January found that roughly half of Americans surveyed weigh "evolving drivers" - health and wellness, safety, social impact, experience and transparency - in their purchasing decisions, in addition to the "traditional drivers" of taste, price and convenience.
Nature created oil and water specifically so they would not mix, then peppered the food supply with a whole range of other ingredients to help the two mix well
Technology is helping food companies create efficient emulsifiers—among the most critical aspects in the formation of successful emulsion-based food and beverage products.
The rules for maintaining kosher, halal, and other religious diets can be dizzying but intermediary organizations are helping processors answer to that “higher authority”
In 2013, Natural Food Certifiers Inc. (NFC), a kosher/natural/organic product certification program, inaugurated its GMO (genetically modified organisms) product verification program, called “GMO Guard.”
The night before the world-renowned Patriots’ Day Run (aka, “Boston Marathon”), the thousands of marathoners who convene in Boston typically prime themselves by “carbo-loading.”
A run-in with a serious disease is a powerful stimulus for change, and reducing symptoms and risk fac-tors through diet is generally a focal point of that change. Recovery has many stages, and good nutrition is critical along all of them.