Colour plays a vital role in delighting the senses, differentiating flavour expectations and aiding in taste perceptions. It also adds to consumer’s assessment of the snack’s ‘health halo’, writes Marie Wright, president of Creation, Design and Development...
Laetitia Durafour, marketing & communications director at Crown Food Europe, analyses how metal packaging can boost the sustainable credentials of healthy snacks.
Snack producers can expect continued strong demand for healthy, clean label and convenient snack options, as well as a strong preference for products that feature plant-based functional ingredients, predicts Laura Gerhard, director of Strategy and Marketing,...
The comfort eating trend sparked by the coronavirus outbreak will continue, but consumers are now focusing more on balancing indulgence with health and transparency, writes Myriam Snaet, head of Market Intelligence and Consumer Insights at Beneo.
KIND's pending acquisition of Nature's Bakery, a family-owned, better-for-you snacking company best known for its soft-baked fig bars, gives the nutrition bar giant and its parent company Mars a stronger foothold in the nut-free snack bar category....
Cargill has joined a network of investors in Seventure Partners’ Health for Life Capital II fund – which includes Lesaffre, ADM’s corporate venture capital arm, Danone and Novartis – to drive the creation of next generation ingredient solutions that will...
Brands no longer need to wait for the summer months with their festivals and crowded city centres to interact with their audiences. At Home experiences bring engagement and trial opportunities to everyone’s living room, says Vaughan Edmonds, planner at...
Tate & Lyle has taken full control of stevia supplier Sweet Green Fields (SGF). Abigail Storms, Global Sweeteners Lead, says the move will create ‘more opportunities to innovate with customers leveraging SGF’s deep technical stevia expertise’.
It is hoped British agriculture will be transformed by the ‘biggest farming shake-up in 50 years’. But there are fears that both Britain’s move to cut farmer subsidies as it leaves the EU Common Agricultural Policy, and the EU’s reform of the CAP, could...
SternLife has developed two new concepts for functional snack bars that combine indulgence with optimum nutrient profiles, while allowing producers to capitalise on a clear unique selling proposition (USP).
Beneo has launched a precooked functional native rice starch that the plant-based functional ingredients specialist claims maintains its clean label status, even under harsh processing conditions.
The dietary supplement and functional food industries has a huge opportunity to create new products across all life stages in order to tap the full potential of the healthy ageing market in Asia-Pacific.
