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Functional ingredients provide benefits, solve clean-label challenges (Snackfood & Wholesale Bakery)

Functional ingredients provide benefits, solve clean-label challenges (Snackfood & Wholesale Bakery) (Maxine Weber) Formulating products with the ever-increasing demands of today’s marketplace is no easy task. Consumers are seeking clean, clear labels and simplified ingredients. Simultaneously, customers are seeking improved sustainability and cost efficiency in the form of less waste and better inventory control—and requiring products with longer shelf life. Still, pressure to maintain cost structure requires equal or better runnability on the line. It’s extremely difficult to meet all of these consumer and customer demands and still maintain good eating quality with a reasonable cost structure. But it’s possible…

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Demand increases for probiotic drinks (Beverage Industry)

(Author: Barbara Harfmann) Article Link There’s an idiom that talks about listening to one’s gut as a way to ward off something that doesn’t feel right. After the brain, the gastrointestinal tract, or gut, is the nervous system’s second-biggest network of closely interconnected neurons that greatly impacts overall health and well-being, experts say. This has resulted in an increase of new and more natural approaches to digestive health with beverage-makers adding fiber, probiotics and “good bacteria” to their new products. Consumers have become increasingly interested in consuming probiotics as a way to boost their gut health, driving interest in probiotic-containing…

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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Manufacturing Engineer

Come Work for a Fast Growing, Global Food Ingredient Company – Engineer Wanted! Position:  Manufacturing Engineer Location:  Clewiston, Florida Manufacturing Engineer Job Description 161111 Company Brief: Fiberstar, Inc. is a rapidly growing food ingredient company focusing on improving food freshness and nutrition through technological innovation.  Fiberstar’s investment in research has led to the development of unique products that improve the physical and functional characteristics of a wide variety of foods for food manufacturers all over the world.    This engineer position will report directly to the Plant Manager at the Clewiston, FL production facility to develop and maintain a fully functioning…

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