Targeting Beverages for Demographics
11/20/2009 -
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.
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Promoting Satiety
11/19/2009 -
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.
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Getting Sauced: Pasta Sauce Formulating Secrets
11/17/2009 -
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.
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Starch on the Side
10/09/2009 -
In menu development, chefs and operators know the critical role of a starch in achieving the perfect balance of plate presentation, flavor delivery and mouthfeel. These qualities likewise go into the development of intriguing retail side dishes.
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Indian Spice Blends
09/03/2009 -
A quick survey of the culinary landscape would indicate a rapidly growing interest in the spice blends of India. Indian spice blends tend to be comprised of 10 or more spices, lending them an alluring combination of complexity and inaccessibility.
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Flavors Enhance Aloe Beverages
03/20/2009 - The nutraceutical market has exploded over the past decade, leading to the introduction of thousands of novel foods, beverages and herbal additives. On the crest of this trend comes a class of nutraceutical beverages whose touted ingredient may be surprising—aloe vera. The same plant whose seeping leaves are commonly associated with soothing burns has, in recent years, become the key ingredient...