SEPTEMBER 2022
WHAT'S TRENDING
FOOD SCIENCE—FOR EYES & EARS
Want to listen to industry news and views on the way to work? Catch a quick video on a lunchbreak? Prepared Foods now goes anywhere—and everywhere—to cover critical topics.
IMMUNITY PODCAST
Prepared Foods Editor Bob Garrison talks immunity-focused products and ingredients with Barbara Brueckner-Shpizner, Vice President, Innovation at Mattson. Brueckner discusses consumers’ growing understanding and attitudes toward immunity. She also shares examples of new immunity-related finished products and trending ingredients that formulators need to know for now—and in 2023 and beyond. CLICK HERE


New products evolving to offer immunity—plus other benefits, such as sleep support.
FORMULATING WITH GUMS PODCAST
Consumers are demanding clean labels and natural ingredients. In spite of consumer misconceptions that gums and other hydrocolloids in foods and beverages somehow are artificial additives, they nearly always are natural ingredients. David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical, interviews Erhan Yildiz, PhD, adjunct professor of food science at Rutgers University, for an overview on trends in gums used in making today’s food and beverage products. CLICK HERE

LEARN! INFOGRAPHIC:
SUGAR REDUCTION
Overall, the number of Americans who claimed to be limiting or avoiding sugars in their diet remains high at 72%, according to the International Food Information Council’s 2021 Food & Health Survey. CLICK HERE



NATURAL & ORGANIC
Consumers continue to seek natural and organic products to address health and wellness, as well as environmental concerns. In this piece, Prepared Foods reviews products and trends driving “new news” in the natural and organic categories. CLICK HERE

SEPTEMBER 2022



