Most of us are fairly familiar with the methods used to make the food we eat everyday around the home. We mostly know how to cook, or at least understand the concept on an intellectual level! But when food is prepared and sold en-masse, things look slightly different. This is where we see processes like freeze [...]
The food processing industry is currently going through turbulent times, with changing demands, costs, and trends forcing companies that operate within the sector to adapt in order to grow. There are few things more personal than the food we eat, which ensures that numerous forces are acting on the business at all times – ranging [...]
The ever-evolving shopping and eating habits of consumers continuously cause changes in the food and beverage supply change. Currently, many consumers are ditching salty and fatty foods of the past and are searching for fresher and healthier food and beverage choices. For this reason, the supply chains have to evolve in order to meet the [...]
When it comes to preparing food it is important to take certain steps in order to ensure that the food is safe to consume. There have been numerous news stories about people becoming sick after eating at a certain restaurant or even food that has been recalled because of something that has happened during the [...]
Over the last few years, you have most likely heard of the new diet trend, “The Keto Diet”. Especially if you are on social media, you have definitely been exposed to the idea of a keto diet. The keto diet trends has caused a rise in demand for Keto diet products. With new trends always [...]
Food waste is a big problem across the supply chain. Totaling 63 million tons a year and worth $218 billion, reports ReFED, a national nonprofit focused on food waste solutions. But with good strategies, you can start reducing food waste by 20 percent over the next 10 years. Generating $100 billion in savings. Forty percent [...]
Spray drying is a continuous and scalable process which has been used in the food industry for over 150 years mainly for converting dairy and fruit fluids, starches, proteins, honey and molasses into shelf-stable powders. Today, spray drying is considered the method of choice for commercial scale encapsulation applications. Unlike other drying techniques which form [...]
The recipe for success in the food and beverage industry has always been pretty straightforward: give consumers convenient access to great-tasting food at an affordable price. But over the last five years or so, the demand for specialty foods such as: allergen-free, gluten-free, organic and natural foods has seen a sharp increase, forcing food and beverage [...]
Contract manufacturers are third party partners that can help a company with their production needs when the business starts to exceed their own in-house production capacity. When a company needs to hire a contract manufacturer there are several things to consider. […]
If you’ve kept an eye on science news over the past few years, you’ll have seen at least a few headlines about CRISPR, the technology allowing for genome editing and many new scientific advances. It’s changed the way we look at genetic diseases and traits; predisposition to disease can now be eliminated through science, and [...]