While the gluten-free market continues to grow, food formulators may consider ingredients that link gluten-free products to other trends like plant-based, keto and sustainability.
The Kraft Heinz Co. has funded two years of research at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University in Boston that involves turning sugar into fiber in the gut, which reduces the amount of sugar absorbed into the bloodstream.
The National Confectioners Association has defended the safety of dark chocolate after Consumer Reports brought attention to the amount of cadmium and lead in the products in a report issued Dec. 15.
The US Food and Drug Administration amended a final standard of identify rule for yogurt after agreeing on certain issues brought up in a petition from the International Dairy Foods Association, but the agency denied requests for a hearing made in petitions from the IDFA and Chobani, Inc.
Corbion NV has updated its sustainability goals and now is pursuing more aggressive emission reduction targets validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), the global body enabling businesses to set emissions reduction targets in line with the latest climate science.
Hormel Foods Corp. will increase advertising spend on its turkey portfolio in fiscal 2023 after raising prices in fiscal 2022. Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) should continue to impact the turkey category negatively in the next fiscal year, but to what degree remains unknown.
Danone SA executives expect a global energy program announced Nov. 17 to improve energy efficiency by 35% by 2025 and to reduce the company’s Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by a minimum of 42% by 2030.
Sluggish consumer demand ate into IFF volume numbers in the third quarter ended Nov. 30. Volume was challenged in two IFF segments, Nourish and Health & Biosciences, said Glenn Robert Richter, chief financial officer, in a Nov. 8 earnings call.