Prepared Foods: What trends do you see involving natural sugar and options such as honey, coconut sugar or beet sugar?   Elizabeth Sisel: From a beverage development viewpoint, so much comes down [...]

Finding the sweet spot for taste, texture and nutritional profile is a challenge for beverage brands because consumer sentiments about desired product attributes are changing faster than ever. [...]

The old sayings “let thy food be thy medicine” and “you are what you eat” ring truer than ever for consumers. After years of nutritional research and recommendations, consumers have learned that [...]

Health and wellness beverage product developers have no boundaries, as better-for-you means something different to every consumer. Most concepts make a connection by promising a benefit, but from [...]

Sugar remains under scrutiny, even though the U.S. market for it is valued at $1b more than the next leading sweetener, brown sugar, according to Nielsen. In addition to sitting on many tables, [...]

With the new industry standard necessitating the hybridization of beverage categories and functional benefits (e.g. tea infused sparkling water, juice + soda, juice + water, energy + metabolism [...]