News On Ingredients from Northern America

FPSA - formerly known as Food Processing Suppliers Association - has rebranded as the Food Production Solutions Association, emphasizing innovation and collaboration to enhance food production efficiency and safety.

Boulder Canyon and Grillo's Pickles have teamed up to launch a limited-time Classic Dill Pickle Flavored Kettle Style Potato Chip. This collaboration offers a crunchy and flavorful snack, combining the all-natural freshness of Grillo's Pickles with Boulder Canyon's better-for-you potato chips.

PepsiCo, Inc. unveiled new nutrition goals under its strategic transformation, PepsiCo Positive (pep+). The objectives focus on reducing sodium and enhancing nutritional value in consumer-preferred foods.

Kerry’s Global Taste and Nutrition Charts for 2023 profiles the up and coming and emerging flavors for the coming year, as well as profiling top mainstream and key tastes.

SNAC International congratulated the winners of SNAXPO23’s Flavor of the Year Awards: Elite Spice for their 'savory' DC Signature Mambo Sauce, and Chesapeake Spice for their "sweet" French Toast flavor.

SNAXPO23, to be held March 19-21 in Orlando, FL, will include a Startups Hub, Co-Pack Central, Flavor Showdown, Knowledge Zone, and SNAC Bites.

Kerry, the world’s leading taste and nutrition company, has announced that it had released Acryleast™ Pro, the advanced iteration of the company’s signature acrylamide-reducing non-GMO (non-genetically modified) yeast, Acryleast™.

Consumers across the world associate cheese flavors with indulgence, comfort and freshness, with significant variation in different regions, according to new research from Kerry, the world’s leading taste and nutrition company.

A new study recently published in Frontiers in Nutrition has challenged the tendency in nutrition research to separate starchy vegetables from their non-starchy counterparts

Researchers announced early tests of a new potato processing technique designed to make our bodies digest potato starch more slowly. Laboratory demonstrations show that the approach blocks certain digestive enzymes

Classic hash brown patties from Cavendish Farms and potato patties from No Name are being recalled by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) due to undeclared wheat and barley.

MicroSalt Inc. announced that it's SaltMe! potato chips will be distributed to more than 1,400 Kroger grocery stores beginning mid-March. This milestone is a major move for MicroSalt on its mission to provide healthier, full-flavor potato chips

Kerry, the world’s leading taste and nutrition company has reviewed extensive research and examined global trends in emerging flavors in an effort to identify the top global taste trend in 2021.

Sustainability considerations now influence the majority of the world’s grocery shoppers when buying packaged foods such as potato chips and cookies, according to Cargill’s most recent global FATitudes™ survey.

Renaissance BioScience Corp., a leading global bioengineering company, announced today that it is receiving advisory services and additional funding of up to CAD 200,000 from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP).

Savory Snack Industry Association SNAC International launches anew event format to alternate with SNAXPO: SNX. The new concept is designed to spark dialogue, innovation and growth, helping you build deeper relationships across the entire supply chain.

Hormel Foods Corporation, a global branded food company, announced its venturing company, 199 Ventures, has entered into an exclusive partnership with The Better Meat Co. to bring new mycoprotein - produced by potato-based fermentation - and plant-based protein products to the marketplace.

Cooking oil is a key component of food processing, and taking steps to delay its degradation can result in reduced waste, costs, and risk of creating poor-tasting food products. Industrial Fryer specialist Heat and Control explains.