More Americans are beginning to realize their diets don’t include enough fiber, which offers numerous nutrition and health benefits. To meet consumers’ demands for more fiber-enriched products, bakers and snack manufacturers are looking to ingredient manufacturers for products to address the challenges of using more fiber in formulations.
New vertical and horizontal form/fill/seal systems help bakers and snack producers address consumer eating trends and be more productive and profitable.
The baking and snack food industries have been rife with acquisitions, mergers, spinoffs and other activities this year. So much so, that it’s sometimes difficult to tell who the major players are. Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery’s Top Bakers and Top Snack Manufacturers lists help put it all into perspective.
As consumer demand for baked goods and snack foods changes and grows, so do bakers’ and snack producers’ equipment needs and wants. Baking
systems manufacturers are listening to their customers and introducing new or redesigned machinery that fits the bill.
Leading flavor and color manufacturers offer insight into current and upcoming flavor and color trends and the opportunities and challenges they offer bakers and snack producers.
Fats and oils suppliers continue to expand and improve their portfolios in response to bakers’ and snack producers’ requests for oils, shortenings and margarines with little or no trans and saturated fats.
Bakeries and snack producers looking to reduce labor, production, packaging and distribution costs, as well as improve efficiencies in these areas and
others, are finding their solutions in today’s robotic equipment.
