Global Food Forums Domains Are for Sale
Global Food Forums, Inc. ceased operations on December 31, 2023. Thank you to the speakers, food ingredient suppliers, and consumer food and beverage manufacturers for making the company's d0zen-year run financially successful and fun! Food Trends & Tech currently...
A Practical Approach to Delivering Sweet Flavor
Different approaches to reducing or replacing sugar in formulations with nonnutritive sweeteners, naturally occurring sugars, fibers, and flavor enhancers can be taken. Blending culinary and food science techniques, Zal Taleyarkhan, Corporate Research Chef, and Jenn...
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...