Ingredion Inc., a leading global ingredient provider, is presenting innovative solutions that address top trends in the industry at the 2014 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New Orleans, June 22-24 at the Morial Convention Center, booth #3641.

The demonstration will include prototypes and live demonstrations.

IFT brings together the world’s top food professionals to discover new innovations. The company says the latest global trends include:

• Authenticity
• Back-to-basics
• Better-for-you snacking
• Global variety
• Holistic health

“We maintain a keen focus on consumer trends to ensure that the solutions we deliver to our manufacturing partners helps them to differentiate and win at retail,” says Marco Villone, v.p. of marketing, U.S./Canada with Ingredion Inc. “By truly partnering with our customers, we not only bring them novel ingredients, but through our DIAL-IN technology, [we] help them to meet specific goals, ensuring that their products formulated with our ingredient solutions meet consumers’ taste, texture and sweetness expectations.”

The company's broad portfolio of nutritional ingredients, nutritive and non-nutritive sweeteners and specialty starches — including new offerings — will be featured in a variety of prototypes.

Select samples will be produced through live demonstrations throughout the show alongside leading Louisiana Chef, John Folse from R’Evolution restaurant in New Orleans, who will be preparing his gold standard dishes and comparing them to the same recipes commercialized by the CULINOLOGY team.

To find out how Ingredion’s technical, sensory, CULINOLOGY and applications teams help food processors develop tailor-made, high quality foods packed with health benefits, contact Ingredion at (866) 961-6285 or visit www.ingredion.com/us.