Nutritional foods with healthy ingredients are a major trend in 2007. From probiotics to soy isoflavones, the challenge is to maintain products’ health benefits while providing consumers with products that please their taste buds.

The “functional foods” category, while not yet clearly defined, is quickly growing, with recent reports showing it to be one of the top food trends in 2007. Functional foods can

Increasing interest in whole grains and high-fiber brans has opened the door for a broad range of corn and other grain ingredients for use in cereals, snacks and other fiber-enhanced foods. Corn is a key food in the diets of people in most parts of the world, and some say corn has advantages over other grains.

Updated and reposted January 2010. Whey proteins offer unique nutritional benefits including the highest biological value of natural proteins, containing all