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Nutrition Facts, Front and (Nearly) Center
Familiar-looking Smart Choices logo unveiled at ADA meeting.

How Manufacturing Executives Can Learn From Obama’s Victory
Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, there are great management lessons you can use to run your company in difficult times.

AAP Doubles Amount of Vitamin D for Kids

Purple Tomatoes Rich in Anthocyanins

Preventing Allergies with Probiotics

Hiding the Taste of Calcium

Absorbable Acai

Boosting Biceps with Phytoecdysteroids

Rollout: New Food Products for December 2008
New food products guaranteed to whet the appetite.

Comfort Food for Troubled Times
Wellness may be on consumers’ minds, but comfort foods are the reward, especially now.

Ingredient Round Up: Colorants
December's ingredient round-up focuses on colorants.

Wellness Foods: Products to Watch in 2009
Developing products with multiple health benefits is on trend — but don’t overwhelm.

The Year of Stevia

Equipment Round Up: Conveyors

MRO Q&A: Considerations for a New Floor
We’ve assembled a panel of plant operations experts to answer any question you have on plant-floor issues.

Interstate Bakeries Readies Its Exit from Bankruptcy Protection
If the reorganization plan is approved as presented, it will mean the cancellation of all public stock in the company.

Pilgrim’s Pride Files for Bankruptcy Protection
CEO emphasizes ‘business as usual,’ promises a successful exit

Cargill Corn Milling Wins Baldrige Award
Cargill was selected out of 85 applicants for the three winning slots

Wellness Food Trends for 2009
Condition-based marketing and parental concern for babies and toddlers will provide opportunities for product developers in the year ahead.

Ingredient Trends to Watch in 2009
Functional ingredients for health are moving in two directions: a widening application of individual nutraceuticals and an increase in “condition marketing.”

Natural Products Show, Like the Category, Shows Growth
Natural Products Expo East grew four percent in attendance to more than 26,000

New Look Brings New Features
Learn more about our newly redesigned website.

Industry Executives on the Move

One Year of LEED: Kettle Turns Green to Gold
Kettle Chips turns sustainability into profit

Sweet Talk at Supply Side West
Industry executives from dietary supplement, food, cosmeceutical, pharmaceutical and animal nutrition companies gathered on Oct. 22-24 in Las Vegas for Supply Side West.

Processor of the Year: Hormel Foods
In a year that ends with financial chaos, Hormel remains as solid as at any time in its 117-year-history.

ADA Meeting: More Dietitians Are Involved in Food Formulation
Ingredient companies are recognizing the role dietitians play in marketing ingredients

Stevia Extracts Win FDA approval
The Food and Drug Administration declares stevia, a natural, zero-calorie sweetener derived from the stevia plant, as safe for use in foods in beverages.

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