by FTNT Editor | Dec 26, 2023 | Sweet Ingredients
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...
by FTNT Editor | Dec 10, 2023 | Food Proteins
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...
by FTNT Editor | Dec 10, 2023 | Food Proteins
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...
by FTNT Editor | Aug 12, 2023 | Ingredient Functionalities
Current plant-based analogs rely on deconstructed plant tissues that are modified and combined with other ingredients in an attempt to create dairy and meat-mimicking structures and sensory profiles. In his presentation, “Strategic Use of Food Structure of Plant-based...
by FTNT Editor | Aug 10, 2023 | Food Proteins, Uncategorized
Combining dairy and plant proteins in cultured products, like yogurt, creates unique challenges and opportunities for product developers, balancing technical aspects such as protein digestibility, texture, taste, and stability. While dairy proteins offer high...
