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The makers of the HERDEZ® brand announced the launch of Avocado Hot Sauce. Made with real avocados, the new hot sauce offers a unique, tangy flavor to enhances dishes.

At retail, we have seen the sauce, spread, dip and marinade categories expand significantly during the past few years. Much of this expansion has been driven by the wide array of options entering our markets from other world cuisines.

This lacto-fermented mushroom juice concentrate offers manufacturers a clean label replacement for less desirable ingredients such as MSG, sodium inosinate and quanylate, and autolyzed yeast extract. Meanwhile, the concentrate delivers a distinctive umami flavor in a variety of applications such as soups, sauces, dips, plant-based meats, flavor systems, and more.

Prepared Foods talks dips, sauces and condiment trends with David Bezenyei, sales manager, Columbus Vegetable Oils. Based in Des Plaines, Ill., Columbus Vegetable Oils produces a wide range of sauces, dressings, condiments and oils for private label and contract manufacturing customers. Likewise, it supplies a Butcher Boy sauce line to foodservice operators.

Whether a hot condiment such as Tabasco, sriracha, or gochujang gets folded into the coating for hot and “sexy” chips or into a newly crafted fiery dip, or if the goal is a dressing, a splash, or a pour of flavorful expression, condiments are trending big.

Ingredion Incorporated has expanded its potato-based solutions with new ULTRA-TEX® 1311 modified potato starch. The waxy, instant starch offers food manufacturers a new way to create premium products with enhanced product appeal and cost savings potential.

Already positioned as an innovative leader in protein ingredients, Essentia Protein Solutions has added a High Fat Beef Broth Powder to the company’s line of multi-species Broths, Stocks and Fats. Currently available in conventional form, this new high fat beef broth broadens Essentia’s line of clean label ingredients.

Six in 10 consumers say they are cooking more at home—the single biggest change in behavior and one that sounds bullish for sauce, dressing, condiment, and spread makers.

After searching through a decade's worth of posts on forgotten blogs and scouring old tweets and forums, Heinz is releasing three new sauce creations: Heinz Tarchup, Wasabioli and Hanch.