Suppliers discuss natural and exempt colors, and how to match the color to the food.

The idea of biting down into a frozen dessert on a humid summer day is both refreshing and chilling. Just the mere thought of ice cream melting in your mouth or the imagery of racing to finish it before any chocolate melts is what summertime is all about.

It’s incredible to realize how far we’ve come in logistics, distribution, fleet operating and management technology, just in my own business career, writes Don Wilson.

Packaging protects the product, but it is also a billboard of sorts where processors make claims about a food’s nutrition, value and ingredients.

Dippin’ Dots produces more than 40 varieties of ice cream, ice cream cakes, sherbet, flavored ice and frozen yogurt.

Sherbet, water ices and sorbets can very well be forgotten or misunderstood.

Novelties are units of frozen desserts designed for consumption as a single serving.

Despite a chilly economy, marketers have been scooping out sales of dairy and nondairy frozen desserts in some pretty innovative flavors. Who's ready for mac-and-cheese ice cream?