Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery’s September Ingredient Technology article, “A Feast for the Senses,” looks at new flavors and colors being introduced by leading food ingredients manufacturers in response to customer requests and consumer trends. Classic, sweet-and-salty, exotic fruit, blue and green are just some of the flavors and colors being used to create tasty, visually appealing, new baked goods and snacks.
But with consumer demand for better-for-you foods made with natural ingredients on the rise, bakers and snack manufacturers must flex their creative muscles to seek out natural flavors and colors for their products. And with these requests for natural food ingredients climbing, will supply be able to meet demand and will the quality of these ingredients be impacted? According to ingredient manufacturers we talked with, that depends on a variety of factors: