Plant-based foods company Jack & Annie’s recently received $23 million in Series B funding. Prepared Foods Editor Bob Garrison talks with Annie Ryu, Jack & Annie’s founder and CEO, to learn more about the Boulder, Colo., company and its growth plans.
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.
What issues and trends are driving natural and organic food innovation? Prepared Foods Editor Bob interviews Scott Dicker, a Senior Market Insights Analyst at SPINS. Dicker shares insights on new tastes and technologies at Natural Products Expo East—and forecasts what’s ahead for 2022.
Minnie Luong, founder and CHI-EO of CHI Kitchen in Pawtucket, RI, makers of hand-crafted kimchis, slaws, and pickles, treats us to the trends, techniques, and processes that go into the very hot trend of fermented foods. Interviewed by David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical.
What does it take to develop taste and high-protein profiles of plant-based yogurt alternatives? Lia Stierwalt, senior director of marketing, Silk Plant-Based Yogurt Alternatives, discusses the process of product development at Danone.