Gums and starches, keeping it together since 1871. I saw that on a billboard recently. Why 1871? I'll have to leave that to you expert readers out there.
Food allergies and intolerance are quite common today, as I'm certain you are all aware. I myself do not have food allergies, but my childhood friend and current neighbor Sherwood Day suffers from and litany of them. Name it, and Sherwood is allergic to it.
Cost reduction. It's on the minds of everyone we know. There's an assumption that whatever you're doing now can be done cheaper, pardon, more cost effectively. Well, maybe it's true. And maybe, just maybe, it's not. But either way, it had better be true!
Fat reduction in food formulations, that's the matter at hand today. As you well know, there are many moments when full fat in meals is all that matters.