Scott Miller

Phoenix

Staff Writer at Informa Markets

Staff Writer at SupplySide Food & Beverage Journal

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Articles

Major food manufacturers ditch artificial colors

5 days ago | supplysidefbj.com | Scott Miller

Two of America’s biggest consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, General Mills and Kraft Heinz, have committed to removing synthetic food dyes from their U.S. products via the only ironclad legal medium we have left: the press release. This change, likely prompted by the MAHA (“Make America Healthy Again”) movement, could indicate reformulation ripples already spreading across the food and beverage industries.
Stanford discovers multiple paths to diabetes diagnosis

1 week ago | supplysidefbj.com | Scott Miller

Scientists are at it again, disproving “facts” we thought we’d figured out. This time, it’s the glycemic index, a system that ranks carbohydrates based on their effects on blood sugar. In a new Stanford-led study, subjects ate various foods while researchers tracked blood glucose responses. The subjects’ responses to potatoes versus grapes in particular could serve as real-world biomarkers for insulin resistance and beta cell dysfunction, hallmarks of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.
Competitors sue David Protein over access to fat replacer

2 weeks ago | supplysidefbj.com | Scott Miller

David is being sued. Don’t worry, it’s not any David you know — unless you know David Protein, the bar maker whose website is mysteriously silent on the source of its name. (Instead, it refers to “David” as if he’s some guy who contains 28 grams of protein and only 150 calories.) So, yes, David is being sued for allegedly trying to monopolize an ingredient, and after closing a $75 million round of Series A funding, no less. Oh, David.
Tradition, innovation merge in Suerte tequila

3 weeks ago | supplysidefbj.com | Scott Miller

Tequila was discovered by rabbits, or so the story goes. Centuries past, blue agave farmers caught the local bunnies getting sloshed on their crops and thought, “Hey, that looks fun.”As such, every bottle of Suerte tequila sports a stylized rabbit, an illustrated implication that good tequila simply happens and we need only to discover it — a statement that conjures up romantic ideals. It’s also untrue.
Surge in animal disease outbreaks threatens global food security

3 weeks ago | supplysidefbj.com | Scott Miller

Researchers at the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) released a new report that paints a bleak picture of a global food system beset on all sides by novel diseases, climate change and other challenges. They also just won an award for the most fitting acronym. In other news, the food industry works up the courage to sigh with relief as a U.S. court blocks the first of the Trump administration’s tariffs, but another court is trying to push them through anyway.
Hemp market surges as states battle over THC regulations

1 month ago | supplysidefbj.com | Scott Miller

At a GlanceThe U.S. hemp market is now valued at $445 million, representing a 40% increase from 2023. The federal government delayed the 2018 Farm Bill expiration until Sept. 30, leaving states to create their own regulations. Japan’s approach allows naturally derived cannabinoids in food and beverages with strict THC limits.
Mexican livestock banned at US border

1 month ago | supplysidefbj.com | Scott Miller

Screwworm: a word that, no matter how you say it, is bound to make people uncomfortable. After all, this nasty fly reproduces by excreting flesh-eating larva into open wounds. I apologize for including this in my food column. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended livestock imports from Mexico, where the New World screwworm fly is on the move.
Coffee brands break tradition with mushrooms, figs, fruit

1 month ago | supplysidefbj.com | Scott Miller

Of all the beverages compared to ambrosia, the legendary nectar of the gods from Greek mythology, coffee is perhaps the most ancient and celebrated. No one knows how and why humans started roasting and grinding these “beans” (they’re actually seeds; the coffee cherry is a fruit), but the plant likely originated from Ethiopia, supposedly discovered when a goatherd named Kaldi sampled the berries that had his flock buzzing. Unlike ambrosia, however, we can actually grow, brew and drink coffee.
Three natural food colors greenlit by FDA

1 month ago | supplysidefbj.com | Scott Miller

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just welcomed three new food color additives into the fold, and worry not, these dyes are reportedly 100% all natural. Good thing Mother Nature would never hurt us. FDA also asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to review its infant formula standards, which haven’t been touched in more than a decade. The goal is to ensure the protein used in formula is optimal for babies’ growth.
FDA insider speaks out about safety communications

1 month ago | supplysidefbj.com | Scott Miller

At this year’s International Seaweed Symposium in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, a man named Charles Yarish will be crowned “Wizard of Seaweed” in honor of his contributions to sustainable seaweed farming. Interesting? Sure, but not today’s real news. The real news is what’s been going on inside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as revealed by a recently laid off communications director at the Human Foods Program (HFP).