Innovation Through Food Pairings
Food innovation can be the critical component for successful new products. Food pairing is a new idea based on the concept that the more aromatic compounds two foods have in common, the better they'll taste together. Thus, innovation through food pairings presents an...
Clean Label Bitterness Blockers
Making better-for-you foods and beverages taste less bitter is possible with a short list of plant-based bitterness blockers, all of them labeled as natural flavor, including naringenin, sugar cane distillate, mushroom mycelia extract, and 1,3- 1,3-propanediol. Alex...
Food and Technology: Consumer Trends & Tensions
A mounting sense of urgency around the challenges facing the food system is helping to soften consumer resistance to science and technology in food, said Shelley Balanko, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, The Hartman Group, at the 2023 Clean Label Conference. Her...
Proteins’ Role in Muscle Synthesis
Protein-based products and benefit claims have proliferated, as has protein-related research, particularly in the sports science arena. Research findings provide valuable evidence-based guidance that product developers and marketers can use to formulate efficacious...
Ethical Analysis & Labeling for Protein Claims
In order to make a protein content claim on a food, the law requires its label to list the percentage of quality protein. However, measuring quality protein requires the determination of protein digestibility in sacrificed rats. This is the only FDA regulation...
Labeling Claims from Healthy to Eco-Friendly
Consumers perceive “clean labels” as covering a full range of health-conscious messages. This has prompted government initiatives to update regulations on product labeling claims reflecting trends involving nutrients, functional ingredient components, environmental...
Creative Reformulations for Ingredient Disruptions
Product development must apply creative solutions to meet clients’ target cost of goods, discover workarounds for ingredient shortages, and deliver great tasting, longer shelf-life, and clean label products. In her 2023 Clean Label Conference presentation “Case Study...
Formulation Challenges from Supply Chain Disruptions
Food formulation requires looking into future ingredient and material availability. With supply shortages, crop disruptions, and demand imbalance, the pressure on food developers and a procurement team to find solutions is unending, especially with clean label...
Holistic Clean Label Product Development
Holism reflects a concern for the complete system and its interactions instead of its parts, explained Lucile Jarry, MSc, R&D Manager (Foods), Hain Celestial Group. In her 2023 Clean Label Conference talk, Jarry discussed bakery, nut butter, and baby food case...