If there’s one trend that touches nearly every area of the food industry—from formulation to marketing, from ingredients to finished products—it’s clean label.

To celebrate their 5-year partnership, in early 2017 Fisher nuts and Food Network Chef Alex Guarnaschelli announced the launch of a new social campaign.

No segment of the U.S. food industry is as productive and lively as snack and bakery today.

In his 1954 compendium of writings, “Ideas and Opinions,” Albert Einstein said that “all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.” He put forth this scientific “fundamental truth” in connection to his predecessors Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei, tying it to the origins of modern science.

PARTNERS, the family-owned snack maker, is celebrating its silver anniversary, marking its 25th year as a family-owned and operated team baking made-from-scratch gourmet crackers, cookies and brownie thins.

Modern packages think for themselves, remind us, extend shelf life, can be heated at the press of a button and influence our senses with their appearance, odor and feel – and some of them can even speak.

From the moment an ingredient comes through the door of a manufacturing facility, to the moment the finished product is delivered to the store, rapid traceability is a must. Thankfully, new technology makes error-free traceability easy.

Automation is the key element in the evolution of product handling equipment often seen in the snack and bakery market. Cartoners, case packers, palletizers and similar equipment increase productivity while handling a wide range of packaging styles.

Automation has begun to take over the world of sorting and ingredient handling among snack and bakery products, especially in the area of continuous batching and delivery systems.

Keeping up with changing consumer desires is a constant activity. The shifting perceptions of snack and bakery categories are no different.