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Hot Stuff: Red Jalapeno Puree, Peppers Remain on Trend

Cooking sauces represent a convenient alternative to creating recipes from scratch
July 15, 2021
Juliet Greene
Prepared cooking sauces remain popular for consumers and represent a $190 million category; up +6% versus prior year (Nielsen: Total U.S. x AOC 52 Weeks Ending 4/25/20). With exception of 2020’s shelter-in-place, Americans are spending less time preparing meals at home and cooking sauces represent a convenient alternative to creating recipes from scratch.
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New Beverages Leverage Flavor to Deliver Enhanced Experiences, Functional Benefits and Global Adventure

The holistic health and wellness movement has been a key driver in evolving flavor preferences
July 15, 2021
Holly McHugh
Consumer palates are becoming more adventurous and sophisticated. The holistic health and wellness movement has been a key driver in evolving flavor preferences because consumers are more willing to try ingredients with inherently functional benefits. To create a health halo around products, brands are incorporating fresh fruit flavors, botanicals and superfoods into beverages.
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Consumer Appetite for Beef and Other Animal Proteins Remains Strong

The variety of cuts available in the grocery store has dwindled over the years because most consumers know less and less about the animals they consume
July 15, 2021
John Shackelford
There is a massive demand for protein and many product developers are turning to beef to meet the demand. As with the rest of the food industry, the meat industry is evolving to meet new consumer needs and preferences in this increasingly globalized economy.
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Building Flavor on Fluid Foundations

Taking Stock: Stocks, bases, and sauces provide rich opportunity to construct complex flavor
June 4, 2021
Dan Follese
Stock is defined as a cooking liquid that is flavored by simmering animal bones and/or meat, fish, in water or wine with vegetables typically comprised of onion, celery, and carrots (also known as mirepoix) and sometimes other vegetables (or vegetables alone) until a desired flavor is achieved. The classic stock flavorings are beef, chicken, fish, and vegetable/mushroom/miso, and each type finds itself at various stages of use on today’s menus.
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Herbs, Spices, and Flavorings Add Adventure, Taste, Health, and Color

Chefs strive to please an increasingly adventurous, yet demanding, consumer
April 6, 2021
Stephen Kalil CEC, CRC
Now that the annual season of pumpkin spice, peppermint hot chocolate, and other holiday flavors of fall and winter has passed, research chefs and product developers are gearing up to embrace the food and flavor trend predictions for the new year. Eager to mine those predictions for nuggets of inspiration that will lead to new ideas and flavor profiles, chefs strive to please an increasingly adventurous, yet demanding, consumer.
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‘Latin cuisine’ Carves a Wide Path Through Several Continents and Dozens of Cultures

Creative chefs are probing into the interior flavors of indigenous cultures within the countries of the southern part of the Western Hemisphere as well as moving beyond Hispanic flavors to delve into the non-Hispanic culinary traditions of countries such as Brazil, Guyana, and Suriname
March 11, 2021
Matt Jost
American consumers are coming to recognize that the term “Latin cuisine” encompasses far more than the foods of Mexico and Central America or even the few dishes from South America that have hit the mainstream here.
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Flavored Nation

It’s all about flavor. That truth may be self-evident, yet it’s never been more manifest
January 25, 2021
Dotty Griffith
With the recent jump in home cooking, the role of flavor has been especially magnified as food serves a magnified role in providing excitement, comfort, health, indulgence, self-care, and family bonding. All this means a new spice boom in 2021. Spice manufacturers have seen a dramatic spike in demand for their products.
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Research Chefs are Refining the Art of Crafting Perfect Flavor Combos in Liquid Form

The variety of refined ingredients to accomplish a precise pairing of aroma, flavor, texture and mouthfeel has expanded significantly over the past decade, allowing for more formulation possibilities and user experiences
January 25, 2021
George Squire and Jon Biron MBA
Precisely pairing aroma, flavor, texture, mouthfeel — and even aftertaste — can go a long way toward developing an optimal system for achieving the desired specifications and features of a successful drink. The variety of refined and/or clean-label ingredients to accomplish this task has expanded significantly over the past decade, allowing for more formulation possibilities and user experiences.
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Old School Ingredients, Techniques Arrive in New School Forms & Flavors

Consumer culinary knowledge creates high expectations for product developers to deliver more genuine flavors
January 8, 2021
Robert Danhi

Today’s consumers carry more culinary knowledge than ever before, and can boast familiarity with ingredients such as lemongrass and kaffir limes, black garlic, fenugreek and carob. This creates high expectations for product developers to deliver more genuine flavors of Asia in easy to understand formats and flavors.


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October 21, 2020

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