Van Drunen Farms uses NatExpo West to highlight on-trend, better-for-you ingredients
March 6, 2023
Van Drunen Farms welcomes NatExpo West attendees to Booth 4082 to discover its latest on-trend fruit, vegetable, and grain ingredients. The company also will exhibit at Booth F79 in the Fresh Ideas Organic Marketplace.
Using the top 2023 trends as your innovation guide is a way to overcome the overwhelm. Plus, keeping current trends in the food and beverage industry top of mind can help you create products that satisfy shifting consumer wants and needs.
FruitSmart identifies fruit juice, botanical combinations as a trend
February 16, 2023
FruitSmart has identified rising demand for fruit juice and botanical combinations as a major new trend in the healthy beverage space, and will highlight its capability to blend them at Natural Products Expo West, March 8-10, 2023.
California almonds can be a key ingredient to help product innovators adapt to the future
February 7, 2023
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.
Inline Plastics adds seven new Essentials Platters options to growing line
January 26, 2023
Inline Plastics is answering that call and doing so in a sustainable fashion. The company now offers seven new rectangular products in its Essentials Platters line. These all-clear, rectangle-shaped platters are also made with 10% post-consumer content.
The new cupcakes are now available at more than 380 Sprouts Farmers Market stores
January 11, 2023
The Washington red raspberry industry partnered with Rubicon Bakers' Research and Development team to feature a Washington red raspberry puree in both the filling and icing, which complements Rubicon's light and citrusy vegan lemon cupcake.
This month’s collection includes smoothies, culinary salad kits and muesli cereals
January 10, 2023
Convenience, plant-based nutrition, and restaurant-inspired international flavors are driving food innovations, and chopped salads kits are well positioned to drive growth for the value-added salad.
Foodiq’s new super ingredient unlocks potential of fermented fava beans to take plant-based food to the next level
December 15, 2022
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.
Kai Bockmann to assume position as chief executive officer
December 14, 2022
The board selected Bockmann after working with executive search and leadership advisory firm, Egon Zehnder, to recruit and consider candidates from across the country.
Over the years, bars increasingly focused on health, meal replacement, weight management, and energy. But indulgent branding and product formulations are on the rise again. This turn toward the more extravagant can pave a lucrative path for innovative bar makers.