David Feder interviews sweetener expert and research chef Alexa Bosshardt, MS, RDN on the ingredients cereal and beverage makers are turning to instead of nutritive sweeteners in sugary cereals and beverages. She discusses benefits or drawbacks to ingredients such as fruit powders and extracts, allulose, stevia, and others product makers are relying on to meet new mandates for sugar reduction in cereals and beverages, especially for those marketed to children.
Prepared Foods interviews Rachel Yarcony, founder and CEO of myAir, Ltd. Yarcony pioneered the myAir system, an AI-driven personalized platform that combines advanced technology with functional ingredients to offer tailor-made nutrition that “enhances stress resilience.”
Last year saw DayDayCook acquire two leading consumer brands in the US Asian foods market: Nona Lim and Yai’s Thai. Listen in as Prepared Foods talks Asian food trends and tastes with DDC Founder & CEO Norma Chu.
There’s no putting out the fire on the hot and spicy food trend. Prepared Foods' Executive Editor–Technical David Feder interviews Frito Lay Co.’s Sr. Executive research chef Jody Denton for some inside expert insight into the latest in hot sauces and hot and spicy food products. In this interview, he shares with the Prepared Foods' audience the ins and outs of designing the next generation of hot sauce and some hints at the future of hot and spicy snacks.
Prepared Foods discusses plant protein ingredients and formulation strategies with Charlie Baggs, president, founder and executive chef at Charlie Baggs Culinary Innovations, Chicago.
Prepared Foods' Executive Editor–Technical David Feder interviews ethnobotanist and regular contributor to Prepared Foods Kerry Hughes. She discusses the trending foods, beverages, and ingredients using botanicals that caught her attention at the 2024 Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California. Among specific better-for-you and botanical ingredients Hughes notes are: aloe, ashwagandha, cranberry, elderberry, ginseng, milk thistle, mushrooms, saw palmetto, and tomato lycopene.