News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Crown Holdings' shipment of the 25 billionth SuperEnd beverage end in North America underlines the current key concerns of beverage packagers and manufacturers - cost effectiveness, waste reduction and processing efficiency.
Faced with rising costs for starch ingredients sourced from stock-squeezed wheat and corn the global food industry is on the look out for better value alternatives. A recent report on the modified starch market suggests that the tropical starch...
As food makers continue to roll out new low carb food products to meet the rise in demand from consumers, starch supplier MGP Ingredients has agreed to link up with agri-giant Cargill to push a new resistant starch product aimed at this new market.
Could the popularity of the much-vaunted - and much-criticised - low-carb diet fad already be on the wane? Manufacturers have invested heavily in new low-carb products to tap into the trend, and stand to lose a lot if, as one survey suggests, dieters...