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Fat ingredients play multiple roles in sweet goods like pastries.

Fruit ingredients and nutritional bar products are a natural fit.

The frozen food industry will forever owe a debt to Clarence Birdseye. While his freezing innovations date back to the late 1920s, it wasn’t until after World War II that sales of frozen foods really took off.

MacKie will serve through the end of 2022 to oversee the International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE), which ABA co-owns.

Sales of cake, pie, and cheesecake products are up, and formulators need ingredients that deliver on functionality.

As a food writer, SF&WB Editor-in-Chief Doug Peckenpaugh is continually making notes about interesting products hitting the market.

Cookies are ubiquitous. They appear in many areas of the store, from the classic cookies and snack aisle, to the bakery aisle, the in-store fresh bakery, as ready-to-bake items in the refrigerated area, and even cookie dough in the frozen food section.

The Company plans to separate into three independent companies, by spinning off its U.S., Canadian, and Caribbean cereal and plant-based businesses, which collectively represented approximately 20% of its net sales in 2021.

The sweet goods category, which includes everything from brownies to doughnuts to Danishes, overall experienced growth from 2021 to 2022.

The buns and rolls segment of fresh bread accounts for over $6.0 billion in annual retail sales, per IRI, Chicago. This sandwich-heavy segment comprises hamburger and hot dog buns, but also other sandwich buns, dinner rolls, and traditional croissants.