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Comfort with a Twist

It's time to rethink and perhaps reshuffle the attributes that make products craveable

Every industry has their terms that become horribly overused. This can happen in an incredibly short period of time; think “pivot” or “new normal” during the last pivot months. For food, I think it’s safe to say “comfort with a twist” has been used to the point where it has little real meaning in marketing or innovation discussions.


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Product Developers Take to the Streets for New Flavors and Trends

Street food is ideal for a mobile, on-the-go concept or a quick economical meal

Epicurean thrill seekers appreciate a noisy, hustling and bustling street kitchen, a hawker center, or a food trailer park just as much as the comfortable and sophisticated atmosphere of a fine dining restaurant. 


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Food safety, labeling requirements, and trends

Since 1997, The Food Source has worked to be different and say yes when all others say no. As we’ve continued to grow and evolve, it’s always been our priority to stay ahead of the increased awareness of food safety, labeling requirements, and trend


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Q&A with Chef Emily Cruz, CuliNex

A chef's perspective on Mediterranean region trends and tastes
Prepared Foods talks with Chef Emily Cruz, director of sales & marketing at CuliNex, Seattle-based a consultancy to brand owners, food manufacturers, ingredient suppliers, boards and commissions. A Seattle native, Cruz joined CuliNex in 2011 as a contractor and was promoted to a full-time “Culinologist” in 2013.
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Datassential Finds Global Flavors are Taking Off—Even When Most Consumers Cannot

Taste Still Travels: Regional and global flavors are popping up in every daypart and menu category
Six months into a global pandemic and safe-at-home quarantine orders, most Americans have dropped travel plans and dramatically reduced away-from-home dining. However, their culinary wanderlust is stronger than ever, judging by regional and global flavors that are still taking off on restaurant menus.
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Flavor Boosters & Maskers in Food Formulations

Developers are reimagining the complexities of flavor for a clean-label future
With flavor being the product of a complicated, multilayered collection of ingredients and chemical compounds that interact as aromas and individual flavor notes in synchronicity, the task of masking one specific flavor note can be difficult. A greater challenge for today’s processors is that the technique applied must be low-cost, allergen-free, and naturally derived (clean-label), and the result must survive processing.
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Salty Snacking, the Great American Pastime

Worth its Salt: Humans crave salty snacks because we need sodium chloride to maintain electrolyte balance in the body

In the pantheon of snack foods, “salty and crunchy” stands on the highest pedestal of cravings. “Salty snacks are supremely satisfying to all consumers,” says Elisa Maloberti, director at the American Egg Board. Everyone has a favorite salty pleasure, whether it’s buttery, hot, freshly popped popcorn, the shatteringly crispy crunch of thick kettle-style potato chips, or cheesy cauliflower protein puffs.


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Asian Cuisine: Intricate, Sophisticated, and Genuine

Prerequisites for product creation in this category include focusing on the molecular makeup of ingredients, and the processes that will be deployed in manufacturing
Today’s consumer recognizes that Asian Cuisine is made of a complex web of interrelated relationships of molecular compounds, ingredients, cooking methods and techniques within cultural contexts that are at the same time unique and similar in resulting flavor experiences.
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