Impressive nutritional attributes continue to position almonds as a popular value-added inclusion in the clean label category, with it becoming the most used tree nut in global new product introductions in 2018, according to Innova Market Insights.
Traditionally, manufacturers focused on creating simpler and shorter ingredients lists to answer the consumer demand for clean label, but this is giving way towards formulating products that are perceived as inherently ‘natural’, writes Saquib Ramday,...
The world is grappling with an array of challenges when it comes to ensuring global food safety, according to Nikos Manouselis, founder and CEO, Agroknow.
A US federal judge has ruled that Post Holdings Inc. must face class claims alleging it made false and misleading statements that several of its breakfast cereals are ‘healthy’ despite their high sugar content.
Get snacking and join the fight against hunger with 34 Degree’s gluten-free chickpea Snaps, Lay’s Poppables gets rocking with the Trolls and Maison Dixie shakes up the frozen aisle: BakeryandSnacks scours the shelf to find on-trend innovation.
Plant-based brand Upton's Naturals has launched bite-size jerky pieces made from wheat protein. We caught up with its CEO to find out more about the clean label formulation process.
Sensient Flavors has unveiled its new Bakery Toolbox, a set of tasting samples to provide bakers with inspiration, based on consumer demand for innovative and unusual taste sensations.
Two Magpies Bakery – a group of four family-owned bakeries across Suffolk and Norfolk on the East Coast of the UK – has realised a £3.5m sales increase in just 16 months.
The UK expert and consumer watchdog is inviting caterers and other industry professionals to take advantage of its 50 years of insight into all things gluten free through its updated online training course.
Snacking – a familiar term that used to represent the habit of junking between meals – is today part of the millennials lifestyle. Noorul Malik, savvy millennial and marketing & communications executive, APAC, SGK Global, looks at how urbanisation,...
From shorter ingredients lists that consumers recognise, to products free of nasties, to foods that are planet-friendly, exactly what ‘clean label’ is can be confusing and challenging. Maria Brandt, food enzymes regional industry leader, Europe, DuPont...
Ingredion Incorporated has launched a new emulsifier based on a chickpea broth that offers a clean label alternative to OSA-modified starches and other artificial emulsifiers.
From the first plant-based, all-in-one snack bowl to healthy, on-the-go snacking and 100% safe-to-eat cookie dough, we celebrate the women making a difference in the snacks industry.
Nestlé has signed the European Plastics Pact, to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable and reduce its use of virgin plastics by one third by 2025.
Researchers are repurposing waste bread into a medium that can kick start fermentation in food and beverage products, such as sourdough, yoghurt, and wine.
‘The nation is falling back in love with bread and all its varieties from sourdough, to seeded and gluten free, which is great news for the British baking industry, but there is a dark side to this success,’ claims Bakers Basco.
Kayco, owner of kosher brand Manischewitz, is launching a Cold Brew Earl Grey macaroons and Cold Brew Coffee macaroons as a modern take on Passover’s iconic sweet dish.
Colpac has expanded its Zest Eco-Packaging Heat Seal range with five products; a square cut sandwich pack, wrap pack, two different sized sandwich packs and a salad pack.
Although the Australian snacking industry has seen a sharp rise in consumer preference for ‘healthy’ snacks across the past decade, savoury options such as potato chips still hold a substantial lead over all others.
National Confectioners Association president and CEO John Downs said the 2020 Sweets and Snacks Expo in Chicago is still going ahead, and the organization is working closely with the US government to monitor the on-going situation.
Mason Dixie Foods, ready-to-bake clean-label frozen biscuit brand, is launching two product lines to shake up the frozen aisle, Scones and Sweet Rolls. available in spring/summer.
A UK-based animal welfare charity is counting down to its annual Cakes for Apes fundraising campaign to encourage home bakers to ‘bake a difference’ for orangutans in Borneo.
It’s British Pie Week (March 2-8) and Brits are invited to tuck into a richly-flavoured Steak & Ale treat from one of the nation’s favourite hot pie brands.
Free From, healthy food and vegan is seeing a meteoric rise, with consumers seeking better nutritional and ethical balance in their diets, according to the organisers of the Free From Functional & Health Ingredients (FFF&HI) show.
The International Artisan Bakery Expo (IABE) is set to open the doors for its second annual event on March 31, 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Centre, US.
A doctoral student of the University of Vaasa is presenting her academic dissertation, which asserts that grocery stores are better equipped to reduce bread waste than consumers.
Frito-Lay North America is hoping to disrupt the typical funding pattern that sees just 3% of female-founded businesses get the support they need with its inaugural WomanMade Female Funding Challenge.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is rolling out a new Nutrition Facts label that shines a spotlight on ‘Added Sugars’ to help Americans cut back on the amount they consume, while on the other side of the pond, the UK’s sugar tax is producing...
Sara Lee Frozen Bakery is acquiring Cyrus O’Leary’s Pies for an undisclosed sum, which will significantly expand Sara Lee’s presence in the instore bakery category.
Mondelēz International is expanding into the bakery category with a $1.2bn acquisition of a majority stake of Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp from private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners.
Breakfast cereals are one of the categories to actually show progress in reducing sugar content, with Action on Sugar’s latest progress report showing an 8.5% reduction between 2015 and 2018. But some consumers still demand that sweet hit in the morning....
Greek yoghurt brand Ellenos has received a boost from Equilibra Partners Management, the family office of social entrepreneur and snack disrupter Daniel Lubetzky, founder and executive chairman of Kind Snacks.
In a conference call with analysts, the Mexican bakery giant’s chairman and CEO Daniel Servitje said the closure – although temporary – is expected to affect figures for Q1 2020.
Dover Corporation has acquired Systech International (Systech), which will now join Markem-Imaje, product identification and traceability business, as part of Dover’s Imaging and Identification segment.
Researchers are pushing for India to focus on enhancing its production of crops other than rice, the country’s traditional staple, if it wishes to effectively address its triple threats of food security, climate change effects and malnutrition.
PepsiCo is acquiring one of China’s largest online snacks companies, signalling a willingness to make a long-term commitment in the region despite the coronavirus outbreak.
The story of how a relatively little-known Spanish producer’s canned Patatas Fritas snack was thrust onto the world stage after appearing in a Korean Oscar-winning film is a prime example of the effect brand licensing can have on a product.
The savoury snack market is growing worldwide, driven by a variety of consumer trends including ‘health and well-being’ and ‘exotic flavour variations’, according to tna.
