Retail products across the sweet goods category, which includes a wide range of morning and anytime treats like doughnuts, muffins, pastries, coffee cakes, and more, continue to find their way into shoppers’ baskets. Retail sales of perimeter pastry products have seen particularly strong growth over the past year, as noted in our 2022 State of the Industry coverage of sweet goods (see “State of the Industry 2022: On-the-go sweet goods”).
One essential ingredient to this category is fat—and how it’s incorporated into the product. In order to learn more about ingredient and process strategies for this instrumental aspect of sweet goods, we reached out to Dan Moats, CMB, national account manager, Stratas Foods LLC, Memphis.