When Kevin Hall picked up Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time as a high school student, it sparked the kind of ...

Many food companies are reformulating products to remove synthetic colors and other additives, and some are rolling out “free-from” products as parallel line extensions. And, of course, many startups ...

Anyone hoping for a kinder, gentler post-pandemic world has no doubt been sorely disappointed by events of the past year. Inflation, political polarization, extreme weather disasters, and brutal ...

Get a taste of the exceptional research shared each month.

Swicy mashups, savory–sweet pairings, and sour notes fuel innovation. Authentic global cuisines replace broad, Americanized versions. Botanicals, adaptogens, and fermented ingredients link flavor with ...

Market researchers agree: Often the best way to understand something is with a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. So that’s what Food Technology did to arrive at our 2025 Consumer ...

Much like the famous pronouncement on obscenity, consumers know what clean label is when they see it. The growing preference for food and beverage ingredients perceived as somehow “clean” is a global ...

Technology—“the great growling engine of change” as American futurist Alvin Toffler aptly described it—continues to trend strongly toward digitization across manufacturing sectors, especially in the ...

In a world where slow news days seem to be a thing of the past, flavors that foster positive moods and offer a respite from stress and worry are what consumers appear to want, and even need. “With a ...