News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Special edition: Natural and clean label
‘No-additives’, and ‘no-preservatives’ are the most popular clean label claims with consumers, while ‘natural’ struggles because of over-use and lack of definition, according to research.
Healthy hydrogenated trans-free and short chained fatty acid-free solid alternatives to cocoa butter for chocolate production can be produced from sunflower oils enriched in stearic and oleic acids by means of a solvent fractionation method, claims a new...
Oil and fats supplier IOI-Loders Croklaan has opened a creative studio in the Netherlands for confectioners to develop and market new concepts and formulations.