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Feb 10, 2025 | 
supplysidefbj.com | Candace Smith-Lee |Amanda Hartt |Abena Foli
Candace Smith-Lee is the senior category scientist of beverages at ofi with 15 years of beverage applications experience. She oversees the beverage segment ingredient portfolio, provides technical expertise for customer solutions, and drives development for future innovative solutions.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
newhope.com | Amanda Hartt
The standard template for bringing innovative products to market is to focus on trendy new ingredients and formulations to meet shifting consumer health, wellness and diet-related demands. A company’s insights and marketing team helps identify the trends to follow, R&D develops a product and the sourcing department procures the right mix of ingredients to scale. Essentially, information downstream, from the consumer, dictates what is purchased upstream, from the farmer.
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May 3, 2024 | 
newhope.com | Amanda Hartt
The natural products industry is full of entrepreneurs and emerging brands bringing innovative concepts and formulations to market. Natural products innovators must learn quickly to adapt to the challenges that come with being small and new, while also figuring out how to navigate things such as fundraising, accessing retail accounts, onboarding with distributors and being profitable, to name a few.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
foodbeverageinsider.com | Amanda Hartt
Despite certifications like Fair Trade, major challenges persist in cacao sourcing, including child labor, deforestation and poverty. New data-driven, collaborative solutions offer hope for a more sustainable future.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
newhope.com | Gianna Rosenbach |Fred Haberman |Amanda Hartt
Momentum behind products that support brain health continues to mount, with evidence for blossoming consumer interest showing up in all corners of the natural and organic products industry. In research New Hope Network conducted this summer to assess the functional food and beverage markets trajectory, 42% of consumers said mental health, mood and stress represented top health concerns they are addressing through functional food and beverage.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
foodbeverageinsider.com | Rachel Adams |Jacquelyn Schuh |Victoria Davies |Amanda Hartt
From globally inspired baby and toddler food embracing texture to upcycled pasta chips featuring Italian and Asian flavors, products that pack a punch were on full display at Natural Products Expo East. At a GlanceThere is a growing trend of global flavors in the food industry, from baby foods and entrees to snacks and condiments. Globowl utilizes flavorful, textured ingredients to help expose tots to allergens early in life and avoid food aversions.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
foodbeverageinsider.com | Rachel Adams |Jacquelyn Schuh |Victoria Davies |Amanda Hartt
Frank Yiannas urged California Gov. Newsom to carefully consider the potential national repercussions and risks associated with the proposed ban on certain food additives in Assembly Bill 418 (AB 418). At a GlanceIn his recent op-ed, Frank Yiannas details the national implications of California’s proposed ban on certain food additives. Yiannas argues that state-level actions like this could create a patchwork of conflicting regulatory standards.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
foodbeverageinsider.com | Rachel Adams |Jacquelyn Schuh |Victoria Davies |Amanda Hartt
Dr. Angela Anandappa, CEO/president, Alliance for Advanced Sanitation, chats with us ahead of the annual SupplySide West/FiNA show in Las Vegas. At a GlanceSSW attendees can learn secrets to success from industry experts during "Food & Beverage 101" education session. Dr. Angela Anandappa, CEO/president, Alliance for Advanced Sanitation, will speak at the session. In this preview video, Anandappa encourages newcomers to build a food safety program in their businesses at conception.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
newhope.com | Nancy Coulter-Parker |Shara Rutberg |Gianna Rosenbach |Amanda Hartt
Industry experts at New Hope Network, the producer of Natural Products Expo East, will be watching 10 trends this year across food and beverage, beauty, supplements and nutrition, and more. These trends were identified through the New Hope Network Trend Framework, reflecting both the quantitative and qualitative work of the New Hope data and content teams.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
newhope.com | Claire Morton |Gianna Rosenbach |Shara Rutberg |Amanda Hartt
The Slow Food movement, born in the 1980s as an antidote to hyper-processed, unhealthy fast-food options, resisted the American-driven proliferation of McDonald’s and Burger King around the world. Decades later, the Slow Money concept looked to local food advocates to raise capital to support growing regional and sustainable food ecosystems.
