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  • Targeting Beverages for Demographics
    In today’s beverage wars, contenders are spread across the supermarket. While competitors try to market to niche demographic groups, it’s important to remember that threads of commonality can be found among even the most diverse groups. Insights can be learned from all. ...(More)
  • Promoting Satiety
    Hunger pangs can sabotage weight-loss efforts. However, an increasing range of functional ingredients that boost satiety can play a vital role in products targeted toward weight management. ...(More)
  • SupplySide West 2009 Breaks Previous Exhibit Hall, Attendance Records
    Supplyside west 2009 trade show in Las Vegas broke both exhibit hall and attendance records, bucking the current declining trend for most trade shows. Nearly 8,300 industry executives and 1,128 booths from global dietary supplement, food and beverage, and cosmeceutical companies participated in this year's show.  ...(More)
  • Bringing the Great Outdoors Inside
    Manufacturers want to offer consumers the flavors of outdoor grilling in more foods. Advancements in ingredient and process technology make it possible to bring the taste, texture and look of outdoor cooking inside. ...(More)
  • Getting Sauced: Pasta Sauce Formulating Secrets
    The convenience of store-bought pasta sauce is a tribute to product-development savvy, but belies the tricky processing, formulation, distribution and storage paths a sauce travels from factory to fettuccine. ...(More)
  • Ingredient Economics
    Food product developers strive to deliver consumer-pleasing products while piecing together penny-saving formulas. Knowing how to squeeze maximum flavor, functionality and cost benefits out of new and existing formulas begins with a few basic principals and some ingredient know-how. ...(More)
  • Sodium: A Dash of Reality
    As more information emerges about the connection between diet, lifestyle and health, consumers are taking note and making adjustments to incorporate healthier practices, including sodium reduction, into their daily regimens. ...(More)
  • Growing Interest in Garlic Varieties
    Although much of garlic’s recent repute has been medicinal, new interest in its culinary properties―especially differences in varietals―is awakening. ...(More)
  • Safer Chinese Food Imports
    With increasing Chinese food imports and increasing scrutiny of the entire food supply chain by FDA and other federal agencies, to avoid U.S. import problems, Chinese food producers must be part of the solution. ...(More)
 

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