Penford broadens fiber portfolio with corn variant
Penford Food Ingredients has developed a corn-based fiber that it says has a cleaner flavor than other corn fibers – opening up broader application opportunities.
Archives for November 15, 2013
Produce packaging demand blooms to $5.7bn
Increasing hunger for fresh-cut fruit, ready-to-eat-salads and other convenience foods is helping drive growth in produce packaging.
50 years on: General Mills caught up in toxic solvent investigation
Cereal giant General Mills is still working to undo the impact of poor waste disposal over 50 years ago at an old R&D center in Minneapolis as a new investigation is launched.
Special edition: Super grains!
Barley ‘always a bridesmaid, never a bride’: getting this super grain into the spotlight
Long the victim of an outdated image problem—canned beef and barley soup anyone?—barley has the nutritional profile, cost and versatility that should catapult into the realm of super grains like quinoa and kamut. And yet, barley often ends up buried on...
Trans fat crackdown: How long does the industry really need to eradicate partially hydrogenated oils from the US food supply?
There will be pressure from some corners to give the food industry several years to phase out partially hydrogenated oils, but from a technical perspective, viable alternatives are already out there for pretty much every application, according to one...
dispatches from K Show 2013
SML: Invest for the future with packaging machinery
Planning for the future to keep pace with the ever developing packaging industry is vital when investing in machinery, according to SML.
DISPATCHES FROM PROCESS EXPO 2013
Multivac cook-in-bag launch heats up convenience packaging
Multivac has partnered with DuPont to create a line of thermoformable cook-in-bag packaging for consumer and foodservice goods.