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Advances in cold storage automation and customization deliver improved energy efficiency and food safety.

Consumer demand for portable, single-serve and on-trend baked goods and snacks continue to drive innovation in slicing, cutting and portioning equipment.

As people seek to reduce their sugar consumption, snack producers and bakers look for solutions that still deliver sweetness along with the added functionality sugar brings to the formula.

Snack-oriented foods and baked goods continue to drive top levels of growth in foodservice today.

The sentences handed down in September to two Georgia peanut butter manufacturers for distributing Salmonella-tainted peanut products should be a profound lesson for not just the food industry, but for the industry in general.

Boosting the vitamin and mineral content of snacks and baked goods increasingly plays an important role in swaying shopper interest.

With daily schedules more hectic than ever and meals often becoming grab-and-go occasions, it can be challenging for people to get the vitamins and minerals they need.

Label reading is a key element of how the nutritional, environmental or intrinsic components of a product are "summed up and learned" by consumers.

Clean-label, better-for-you options continue to fuel growth in cookies and crackers.

Gluten-free is a hot product category. It seems everyone in the food industry wants to be involved in this trend, and the gluten-free label claim does attract a segment of the population that is highly sensitive to the ingestion of traces of gluten. Consumers with celiac disease must completely avoid gluten.