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The chips segment has grown quite lively over the past year, with new product areas emerging and others, like apple chips, seeing considerable growth and maturation. Snack producers are also starting to grow beyond potatoes, offering sweet potato, beet and parsnip chips.

There are no secret ingredients or master recipes in great bread baking. Successful artisan bread baking is largely focused on controlling fermentation. Controlled fermentation accounts for greater dough strength, longer product shelf life due to acidification and, more importantly for your customer, complex flavor.

During research and development, bakers and snack producers face formulation hurdles on a daily basis. Luckily, functional ingredients like fats, oils, dough conditioners and egg replacers can help them solve a host of common challenges.

Ingredion Inc. has launched NOVATION PRIMA 340 and 350 functional native starches for extended cold shelf life stability with a clean label.

Healthy Food Ingredients (HFI) is answering growing demand for healthy, natural oils with its line of expeller-pressed non-GMO and organic oils.

Ganeden invites all scientists, entrepreneurs and inventors with a brand-new probiotic food or beverage product concept to submit their idea to the company by May 6.

Bellarise Organic dough conditioner is the first release in a new range of organic and non-GMO products from Bellarise.

Consumer trends continue to spur tortilla and tortilla chip manufacturers to create products that are better-for-you, innovative, versatile and flavorful.

Mühlenchemie GmbH & Co. KG has introduced two new enzyme systems designed to improve flour quality.