Eric Nakata

Eric Nakata is an experienced creative brand strategist driving results through innovation and product development for more than two decades. He is the Chief Executive for En-Voke, LLC, a business development company working with food, beverage, and CBD companies. Previously, he served as VP of Innovation for S&D Coffee and Tea, Inc.; Newly Weds Foods, Inc.’s strategic development chef for McDonald’s Corporation; director of R&D for Mont Blanc Gourmet; and senior corporate innovation chef for Nestlé NA. You may reach him directly at enakata.envoke@gmail.com.

New Ideas for Tea Beverages and Foods Featuring Tea as an Ingredient

Think outside the bag! There are plenty of new ideas for tea beverages as well as foods featuring tea as an ingredient.

Eric Nakata

July 18, 2022

Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, next to water. And while it’s not unheard of for some to think of tea as nothing more than flavored water, tea is an incredibly complex beverage category.

Coffee Extract, Topping, and Flavor Trends

Cold beverages with foundations of coffee and tea continue to gain popularity on store menus and retail shelves

Eric Nakata

June 1, 2022

With more consumers choosing to prepare their daily ritual beverages at home, the usage of coffee in single serve cups, specialty coffee bean delivery services, and beverage “kits” for flavored cold coffee beverages has grown.

S&D Coffee & Tea: Coffee, Tea Ingredients

Coffee and tea possess a host of powers to transform products

Eric Nakata

April 2, 2019

As extracts, in cold brew or in dry form, the two ingredients have the potential to enhance other products in multiple ways.

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The Sweets & Snacks Expo is the premier business to business event for the confectionery and snack industries. Open only to those in the sweets and snacks trade, the show is unrivaled in new product launches, business-building solutions and innovations in merchandising. The event features the biggest, brightest, latest and greatest the candy and snack industries have to offer.

Eric Nakata

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New Ideas for Tea Beverages and Foods Featuring Tea as an Ingredient

Coffee Extract, Topping, and Flavor Trends

S&D Coffee & Tea: Coffee, Tea Ingredients

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