Articles by Kimberly Decker

Cinco de Mayo fell on a Taco Tuesday this year. And while the coronavirus nixed any plans for celebrating the holiday en masse, it's a safe bet that families across the country did a fine job cooking up their own festivities at home, or ordering curbside takeout.

If it seems as though what's not in a product these days is as important as what is, you're not imagining things. The insistence on "clean" and "simple" ingredients that began with a fringe of vigilant label readers has pervaded the marketplace.

When a gluten-free version of Sheila G's Brownie Brittle hit U.S. stores in 2017, JoAnn Rupp, global market insights manager, Corbion, Lenexa, KS, noticed something that distinguished the product on an increasingly crowded gluten-free shelf.

Alland & Robert invited Contributor Kimberly Decker to visit its acacia gum supplier in Senegal. Decker describes her 24-hour journey from San Francisco to Dakar, Senegal, and then on to the town of Thies, where she visited Alland & Robert’s sole supplier of acacia gum in Senegal.

Chocolate candy is going through an evolution or a "reboot" -- a freshening up that taps novel concepts, ingredients and inclusions to boost its relevance.