The ingredients innovator in the bakery, sweet goods, and chocolate industry hosted its annual Taste Tomorrow conference in Austin this week.

The limited-time items feature a quartet of pumpkin-flavored breakfast and sweet items.

California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) is offering guests a special dine-in free pizza offer and is launching a new limited-time-only Korean BBQ Steak Pizza.

The collection features seven curated cozy flavors as a tribute to the moods of warmth, comfort, and energy that define the autumn season.

The producer also is bringing back Cranberry English muffins, bagels, and swirl bread.

The movie chain is offering the seasoned popcorn in select venues across the U.S.

This year’s report also provides insights and recommendations on how to turn these trends into action to encourage consumer engagement and to stand out from the competition. 

A World of Future Tastes offers a glimpse into snack and bakery flavors to watch.

This article examines current and emerging trends in flavors and colors in snack and bakery production.

The making or buying of a pie used to signal that company was coming over—or at the very least that a family would soon be sharing the dessert.

Snack Food and Wholesale Bakery Senior Editor Liz Parker was able to attend SNX 2024, hosted by SNAC International, last week in Dallas, which took place from April 14–16.

T. Hasegawa's newest trends report takes a look at foodservice, flavors, and generational trends.

Bakery Concepts International has announced that it has been granted new patents for its Rapidojet technology.

DIOSNA Wendelmixers feature two counter-rotating wendel kneading attachments for dough.

ROSS inline high shear mixers from 1 through 250 HP accelerate mixing, emulsification and homogenization in both recirculation and continuous modes.

Multiflux GMS mixers from process equipment manufacturer Gericke USA feature a proprietary, hygienic design as standard to promote fast, complete cleaning, ensure product purity, and minimize risk of batch-to-batch cross-contamination.

ROSS Triple Shaft Mixers are easily adapted to suit a variety of challenging viscous applications requiring hygienic and sanitary handling.

INDCO HS-100 and HS-300 series benchtop dispersers can mix up to 5 gallons of materials at a time, making them ideal for a wide range of high shear applications within labs, pilot plants, and small-scale production environments.

INDCO HS-100 and HS-300 series benchtop dispersers can mix up to 5 gallons of materials at a time, making them ideal for a wide range of high shear applications within labs, pilot plants, and small-scale production environments.

DIOSNA offers a series of Hygienic Design Wendel Mixers for efficient and clean dough production.

The Turbo Compact Mixing (TCM) module from process equipment manufacturer Gericke USA, Somerset, NJ, meets ATEX requirements for operation in hazardous environments. 

The Benchmix 10 includes the patented Admix Rotosolver high shear mix head, engineered for high efficacy of wetting out and dispersing powders, eliminating agglomerates, and creating homogenous mixtures and emulsions. 

Top of mind for snack food and wholesale bakery companies who in the market for new or improved mixers are qualities like consistency, temperature control, and the ability to distribute raw materials fast and efficiently.

Middleby Bakery Group hosted the grand opening of its $2.3 million Bakery Innovation Center in Plano, TX in April. 

Snack and bakery companies that work with dough, or looser components like batters, fillings or toppings, turn to manufacturers of depositors, dividers and rounders to cut, divide, portion and round or mould their products—and the equipment continues to get faster, more accurate, more customizable and easier to clean, among other winning qualities.

Companies who make dough handling equipment like dividers, depositors and rounders say their customers want equipment that provides safety and sanitation, automation and the resulting labor savings, gentler handling of dough, and the flexibility to run a mix of high-throughput, and smaller, niche lines, depending on the job.

Sanitation, automation, efficiency, speed, ease of cleaning, the ability to handle larger capacities, and the ability to produce clean label-foods are among the top priorities for snack food and baked goods makers seeking to purchase dividers, depositors and rounders.

Snack food and wholesale bakery companies in the market for dough-handling equipment such as dividers, depositors, and rounders have been increasingly focused on machines that provide greater automation, along with the corollary efficiency and labor savings.

The Folded-Edge Hand Dispenser is one of the latest additions to Shurtape’s ShurSEAL Packaging Solutions family and is available for all manual sealing applications, including L-Clip tape sealing.

Customers of cutting, slicing and portioning equipment for snack and bakery products consider a wide range of parameters: They're hoping to find machinery that offers greater use of robots and automation, better sanitation, higher safety standards, faster speeds, wider and easier-to-clean blades, and reliable and flexible systems that can handle different sizes and shapes.

According to Technomic's 2018 Pizza Consumer Trend Report, 83 percent of U.S. consumers eat pizza at least once per month, with 43 percent opting for pizza every week.

Cost, safety, efficiency, footprint, operator familiarity, and the ability to meet regulations are among the key factors that snack and bakery facilities need to consider when deciding whether to keep and refurbish an old piece of equipment, or send it to the scrap heap and buy new.

Higher capacities, new shapes, longer blade life, automation, flexibility, sanitary design, quick changeover, and gentler handling of fragile ingredients are among the top features and benefits that snack and bakery companies want from their slicing, cutting and portioning machinery.

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. today introduces Ocean Spray Fruit Medley, a new dried fruit line of tasty combinations of Craisins Dried Cranberries and other dried fruits.

The California Raisin Marketing Board has released a new white paper spotlighting the functional benefits and opportunities for California-grown raisins and raisin ingredients as a fat replacer in baked goods.

Tree Top has announced the addition of a new fruit ingredient to its extensive plant-based portfolio: Drum Dried Pumpkin Flake Powder.

Prime Planet's Crunchy Green Plantain Chips are now verified gluten-free by the National Celiac Association.

Cibo Vita is pleased to announce the launch of its Nature’s Garden line of Probiotic-enhanced dried fruits.

To support consumers in making conscious decisions, Cabosse Naturals has deepened its collaboration with the Upcycled Food Association.

Michael Freitas Finete has taken the helm as president and chief executive officer of SupHerb Farms, an agriculture-based business.

Fruit ingredients and nutritional bar products are a natural fit.

Comprehensive range from three berry species offering various organoleptic properties, actives compounds, and health benefits.

EnWave Corp. announced that it has signed an Equipment Purchase Agreement with Dole Worldwide Food & Beverage Group to supply a 120kW Radiant Energy Vacuum dehydration processing line that will materially increase Dole’s vacuum-microwave processing capabilities.

Based on the concept of coloring food with food, EXBERRY colors are clean-label concentrates made from non-GMO fruits, vegetables and plants using physical processing methods.

The new citrus fibers are in response to the increasing demand for natural, sustainable, and organic food ingredients.

Global top 10 flavor manufacturer unveils HASEAROMA and ChefAroma, two new technologies aimed at producing more authentic taste experiences.

While there are many ways to enjoy snacking on prunes, Sunsweet created these new products to deliver on the increased consumer demand for better-for-you snacks.

Students utilized frozen Washington red raspberry puree to develop new product concepts for the grocery/CPG market.

A company representative talks about meeting multiple consumer demands in snacks and bakery.