Food and beverage trends are said to start in foodservice - at high-end restaurants where the final bill for a party of six often totals more than the average family’s monthly mortgage payment.
More than a century ago, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian immunologist Elie Metchnikoff linked the long, healthy life of Bulgarian peasants to their high intake of fermented dairy products containing lactic acid bacteria.
Bell Flavors & Fragrances says the top 10 beverage flavors of 2011 are: Blood Orange, Yumberry, Coconut Water, Maqui Berry, Cupuacu, Elderflower, Caramel, White Grape, Rambutan and Snake Fruit.
A clinical study of MixMe by DSM Nutritional Products is said to offer hopes of improving the nutritional status of populations whose diet is severely limited.
Based in Spain, Premium Ingredients, a supplier of functional ingredient blends based on high-quality emulsifier-stabilizer cost-saving solutions for the food industry, exhibited its products at the just-concluded Gulfood 2011 exhibition.