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GM talks snacking trends
24 Mar 2016
As snack habits evolve, convenience stores need to stay on top of the latest trends to ensure they are meeting consumers’ expectations and to maximize their own success according to the Consumer Insights team from General Mills Convenience & Foodservic...
Read moreCorbion Caravan launches label-friendly dough strengthener
4 Mar 2015
Building on what the company says is the success of the Pristine product line, Corbion Caravan is introducing Pristine 2000, a new dough strengthener designed to satisfy consumer demands for cleaner, simplified ingredient declarations. Pristine 2000 al...
Read moreDawn Foods announces Blueberry Compound
2 Mar 2015
Dawn Foods has launched Blueberry Compound, a new concentrated all natural fruit flavour paste that the company says can be used to add the subtle taste of blueberry and an attractive hue to frostings and filling creams in cakes and desserts, as well a...
Read moreSioux Natural introduces Shug sugar replacement
24 Feb 2015
Sioux Natural is introducing Shug, which the company says is the world’s first 100% plant-based, low calorie sugar-replacement that actually bakes and tastes just like sugar. With its “revolutionary” just-like-sugar performance, Sioux Natural say...
Read moreLesaffre introduces organic baking ingredients
20 Jan 2015
Lesaffre claims that it is to break new ground and launch a range of organic baking products to help bakers produce top-quality organic bread in line with European regulations. The ‘Biorganic’ label includes yeast, sourdough and bread improvers in its ...
Read morePenford expands egg replacement portfolio
9 Jan 2015
Penford Food Ingredients has expanded its egg replacement portfolio. This portfolio of starches and starch and gum blends can, says the company, partially or fully replace the whole egg, egg white and yolk in prepared food products. “Egg components are...
Read moreGrupo Bimbo acquires Canada’s Saputo
19 Dec 2014
Grupo Bimbo has announced that its subsidiary Canada Bread is to acquire Saputo Bakery for CAD$120 million. Saputo Bakery is said to be the leading producer of snacks cakes in Canada. This operation will, said Grupo Bimbo, position Canada Bread for f...
Read moreEFSA reviews acrylamide comments
15 Dec 2014
EFSA scientists have met to discuss some 100 comments with the contributors to a recent public consultation on acrylamide in food, a contaminant that forms in starchy foods as a result of high temperature food processing, including cooking. The comment...
Read moreTop Gluten-free Opportunities for 2014 and Beyond
25 Nov 2014
Gluten-free food continues to boom, with global value sales almost doubling over 2008-2013 – and it is not going to stop there. Further growth will be propelled by the fact that these products are increasingly aimed at “gluten-reducers” rather than str...
Read moreWhite Bread and Breakfast Biscuits Fuel Fibre Focus
10 Nov 2014
Awareness of the health benefits of fibre in terms of digestion, cholesterol reduction and diabetes prevention is rising, but it is an increasingly complicated area with the traditional associations of fibre with wholegrains, oats and fruit and vegetab...
Read moreTechnology Meets Tradition
28 Oct 2014
The bakery and confectionery sector is going through some interesting times. Many of the products in the sector are particularly indulgent, and the good news in this regard is that consumers now seem to be – in general – better off and are ...
Read moreBakers Under Fire Once More in Wholegrain Controversy
1 Oct 2013
Two publications have been causing a stir this year in the bakery world for suggesting – and by no means for the first time – that manufacturers are misusing “wholegrain” and similar descriptions on products which often contain a pitifully small quanti...
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