Issue Archive

2008 Readers' Choice Awards: The food industry’s best suppliers
Here are the top suppliers in 41 categories of ingredients, equipment and services.

Premium, indulgent, intuitively healthful
Haagen-Dazs Reserve focuses on the flavor, not the health benefits, of Brazilian Açai Berry Sorbet.

What color is your peanut butter?
Sunland needed a colorimeter system to keep its peanut butter Grade A.

Trans fat solutions continue to evolve
The trans fat disclosure ruling of 2006 continues to challenge processors, but oil alternatives are getting better all the time.

Toops Scoop: Who's having the most fun?
Ritz Cracker Fun-alysis survey finds how important fun is to all of us.

Ingredient Round-Up: Savory Flavors
March's Ingredient Round-Up features savory flavors and ingredients, including Kraft Food Ingredients, Cargill, Sunspice, reduced-sodium beverages, salt replacers, and many more.

Demand for natural colors
As consumers scrutinize food labels for artificial ingredients of all kinds, natural colors are growing in number.

Equipment Round Up: Packaging Equipment
March's equipment round up features products from Cryovac, A-B-C Packaging Machine Corp, Tetra Pak, and other packaging companies.

Turning up the heat in thermal processing
Energy costs are forcing innovations on the traditional cooking processes.

Power Lunch: Energy, climate and food
After decades of cheap fuel, processors need to reconsider energy-intensive systems for cooking, refrigerating and transporting food products.

Rollout: Best New Products of March 2008

The Trends: The Flavor Pairings of 2008
McCormick’s annual Flavor Forecast this year looks at the flavor pairings that will influence what we eat.

Regulatory Issues: Pros and cons of food recall authority
There are reasons why giving FDA recall powers may not have a positive impact on food safety.

Trends in mixing and blending
As food ingredient trends go, so go trends in equipment.

Editor's Plate: Two Doses of Optimism
Our own readers’ survey and comments at the CAGNY meeting indicate optimism.

Soy may fight Asthma
Study reveals soyfoods may be of benefit to asthma patients.

Organic is better

Something Fishy Going On
Safeway stores suspending purchases of Chilean farmed salmon until more sustainable practices are enacted.

A Rose is a Rose

Cool Grass

More zoom than gloom at CAGNY meeting
Many food companies plan to beat their 2008 earnings estimates, despite cost increases.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Dannon sued over probiotic claims

News Briefs: March 2008