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Cracking open new ideas with nuts

KANSAS CITY — Packing protein and fiber while delivering a crunchy bite, nuts are welcome inclusions in sweet baked goods that consumers may consider permissible indulgences. Nut-based flours also may work in flour blends for gluten-free products. Almonds have retained…

Carnation adds nutritional smoothies | Food Business News

HOBOKEN, NJ. — Carnation Breakfast Essentials, a Nestle SA brand, is releasing Breakfast Essentials Fruit & Protein smoothies, a new line of nutritional beverages. The drinks feature strawberry, banana and apple purees, equivalent to 1/3 cup of fruit, along with…

Ag futures dip into weekend on global news

Home » Ag futures dip into weekend on global news Source: Sosland Publishing Co. Recap for January 26 Wheat futures dropped lower in technical selling profit taking and signals the global export business may be cooling off. Soybean futures dipped…

Keys to creating cultivated meat flavor

BOSTON — Cultivated meat scientists are concentrating on the role precursors play in developing flavor, along with the impact of cell media and cooking on taste, according to speakers at Tufts University’s second annual Cellular Agriculture Innovation Day. The panel…

Export optimism boosts wheat futures

Home » Export optimism boosts wheat futures Source: Sosland Publishing Co. Recap for January 25 Wheat futures continued to climb Thursday on optimism that North America and Europe could pick up some global demand amid geopolitical tension in the Middle…

McCormick takes steps to reverse volume decline

HUNT VALLEY, MD.  – McCormick & Co. expects increased brand marketing, price gap management, new products and packaging renovations to stop a slide in sales volume, said Brendan M. Foley, president and chief executive officer. Sales volume in the fourth quarter…

Cheetos launches latest flavor innovation

PLANO, TEXAS — Frito-Lay North America, a division of Purchase, NY-based PepsiCo, Inc., is debuting a new Cheetos flavor ahead of the Super Bowl. Inspired by the popular football watch party food, Cheetos Crunchy Buffalo merges the flavor notes of…

Mars names new VP of sales for North America

CHICAGO — Mars Food and Nutrition has promoted Eric Huston from general manager of Mars Food and Nutrition Canada to vice president of sales North America. Huston succeeds Edward Taylor. Huston has been with Mars for the last seven years holding…

Tyson Foods opens bacon plant in Kentucky

SPRINGDALE, ARK. — Tyson Foods Inc. said it has opened a new $355 million bacon production facility in Bowling Green, Ky. The company said the plant was built to support a significant expansion in bacon production capabilities, capitalize on category…

VERAX enters US, Mexico sugar markets

CHICAGO — Verax Commodities LLC (VERAX) on Jan. 24 said it has begun sugar trading, processing, and distribution activities as the newest entrant to the North American sugar market with headquarters in Chicago and regional offices in Houston and Mexico City.  …

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