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Food color experts declared red as 2021's color of the year. Looks delicious, doesn't it? COLOR IS ARGUABLY the most important initial sensory cue we get from a food or [...]

THE PAST 38 YEARS have seen the market demand for food colorants changing in substantial ways, particularly regarding the choice between synthetic and natural colorants. Not so long ago, synthetic [...]

SINCE THE 1970S, consumers in the US and the EU have been influenced by the publication of occasional studies purporting to link foods, food ingredients, and food additives with a [...]

RECENT TRENDS in the food industry have favored the use of naturally derived food colorants at the expense of synthetic food coloring ingredients. This has been welcomed by consumers and [...]

Ingredient companies use extraction technologies to concentrate the active components in cannabis. This is a boon to makers of legal cannabis edibles and beverages seeking to produce a variety of [...]

NATURAL INGREDIENTS are the gold standard in the food and beverage industry today, and food colorants are no exception. The wave of consumer demand for both cleaner labels and the [...]

THE 'NATURAL COLORS ONLY' movement resulted in sweeping reductions in the use of synthetic colorants and, understandably, a concurrent rise in interest in naturally derived food colorants. It also has [...]

WITH INGREDIENTS that make up the large proportion of a formulation, process is relatively simple. For items like sugar, starch, fat, and protein, it is often possible to batch these [...]

Avian flu led to a great fall in the egg industry. But scientists have been working to replicate the incredible, edible egg's functional capabilities. THE IMAGE OF migrating water fowl [...]

DEMAND FOR low-sodium foods is as strong as the growth in the gourmet salt market. What's behind the dichotomy? Consumers realize salt is not quite the danger they've been led [...]

WHEN A CHEF prepares a dish, he/she pays attention to more than just execution of a recipe or cooking process. There is a series of integral and interrelated steps and [...]

A PREBLEND or premix is a mixture of components that have been blended together, in-house or by an ingredient supplier, and provided to a processor as a preliminary step in [...]

When new beverage company Golazo Inc. entered the market offering 'healthier natural sports and energy drinks,' it made the introduction with several flavors of beverages designed to provide hydration, electrolyte [...]

Color in foods and beverages is central to the perception of quality, palatability and acceptability. Processing can damage or destroy the naturally occurring color of foods, so the color needs [...]

Nutrition is currently playing a vital role in baby boomers' eye health. Nutrients found to be critical to the macula are carotenoid compounds which include vitamin A and beta-carotene. Food products that could help improve eye health are also presented.

While the quality of the baked part in a luxurious dessert is certainly important, the filling or topping-i.e., icing or glaze, etc.-is an integral part of many desserts. The creative [...]

Research from neutriceutical company Soy Labs LLC showed that lunasin peptide from soybeans displays activities related to lowering cholesterol and preventing cancer. The company's Lunasin-XP is an ingredient for soyfoods, beverages and functional foods. Other details about lunasin research are presented.

The article reports on the precise combining of ingredients in a premix food system for quality control and cost efficiency as of January 2015. Topics discussed include the investment of time and resources in weighing each system component, in blending, in quality and safety checking, and in packaging, and the direct proportion of formulation complexity to risk of error. Also mentioned is the cost savings of vitamin and mineral premix manufacturers when they buy individual components.

The article focuses on color and appearance as two critical factors in consumer choice while purchasing food items. It adds that such consumer preferences have creating enormous demand for natural colorants that can withstand the extreme conditions of modern processing. It also mentions of regulatory limits on artificial color in Europe as a driving force for the huge demand of natural and healthy colors.

In this article, the author focuses on the growing awareness regarding the effect of food colorants on children particularly on the connection between hyperactivity in children and the ingestion of synthetic colorants.

The article evaluates the Lunasin-XP proprietary ingredient for inclusion in soyfoods, nutritional supplements, cosmeceuticals and functional foods and beverages from the Fairfield, California-based Soy Labs LLC.