Healthy Baking

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Ingredion’s new fact sheet focuses on its broad range of sweetener, texture and nutrition options that contain no genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery looks at the upcoming availability of some fruits commonly used by bakers and snack manufacturers.

Exotic superfruits aren’t the only fruits in town loaded with health benefits, consumers are discovering. Many perennial favorites like cherries, blueberries and raspberries are packed with vitamins, antioxidants and other nutrients. 

Everyday products, from popcorn to chips to dessert, are seeing an ethnic infusion as manufacturers strive to satisfy consumer demand for new and interesting offerings.

Weston Foods purchases Rubschlager Baking Corp., a Chicago bakery known for its authentic rye breads and other products.

National organic dairy brand Horizon introduces a line of organic and made-with-organic crackers and grahams.

San Antonio-based C.H. Guenther & Son Inc., a baking industry member since 1851, buys Tribeca Oven, an artisan bakery.

The Pillsbury Doughboy may slim down and cut his sodium intake, as General Mills is looking at a new way of making dough that would lower sodium and fat in biscuits, pie crusts and sweet rolls.

Grains mean quality and quantity. Though most people don’t get enough each day, at least half of the grains in a person’s diet should be made up of whole grains, which are unrefined, and haven’t had their bran and germ removed via milling. From corn to quinoa, manufacturers are upping their nutritional antes with whole grains.