Despite better-for-you and health trends transforming essentially every food and beverage category, the indulgent bakery snack market, including snack cakes, pastries, doughnuts, and muffins, is generally faring well.
Buckle up. The top trend driving innovation in the snack and bakery industries has no formal definition, isn't regulated, and is shifting all of the time. Yes, clean label demands are touching every facet of the food industry, from formulation to packaging and marketing, and everything in between.
How do I know the clean label trend is here to stay? Because you can see the market growing, as both big and small brands put out their "natural" or organic alternatives.
Bakery ingredient manufacturer Pak Group, through its North American brand, Bellarise, has introduced their dairy-free egg wash replacer: Bellarise Shine.
Bunge North America, the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG), announced that it is adding lentil functional flour to its line of clean-label ingredients.
ACH has announced that Karo Corn Syrup is now available in 275-gallon totes to service snack, confection and baking manufacturers looking for large quantities of corn syrup.
Healthy & Green Solid Oil 4.0, is the result of intense research and development works conducted by Borges Agricultural & industrial Edible Oils teams, with the aim of providing a healthy solution to the food industry that replaces saturated fats.
Nuts, seeds and other inclusions add new dimensions of color, appearance, texture, nutrition, flavor and more to an increasing range of snack and bakery products. Nut and seed consumption has continued to increase over the past several years. One of the contributing factors to the growth is consumer awareness and interest in plant-based foods.
Stratas Foods has introduced Superb Select 1020 Shortening, a shortening made with non-PHO soybean oil with a substantial reduction in saturated fats and no hydrogenated fats on the label, at the annual Institute of Food Technologists Meeting and Expo.