How To Love Chocolate and The Environment

As consumers become savvier, how do you adapt? Specifically, when it comes to chocolate. Learn more about the growing chocolate market and what innovative solutions manufacturers are bringing to the market.
3 Upbeat Food Industry Trends to Watch for 2021

These 2021 food industry trends look promising—a breath of fresh air after a tough year. If there’s one thing 2020 has shown, it’s the food industry’s resilience—from Valentine’s Day chocolate trends that in February weren’t predicting a rise in chocolate sales due to a looming pandemic to Halloween candy makers that did some amazing pivots […]
How to Prevent Bird Shortages at Your Poultry Processing Plant

Poultry processing plants in the U.S. seem to be in a pretty good spot: broiler prices are currently strong, thanks to lower feed prices and healthy demand. All a plant needs are enough birds to process. Which is where getting in with local farmers, and encouraging a little entrepreneurial spirit, comes in. It’s tough to […]
Why Meat Alternative Brands Need New, Less Beefy Names

In a short time, the meat alternative market has gone from a couple of novelty startups to multiple, well-funded companies with products in major stores. However, these meat alternative brands use animal-protein names to market their products. And that doesn’t sit well with the meat industry. As the popularity of alternative protein products increases, and […]
Protein Alternatives Needed Now

Welcome to the Ingredient Exchange blog. We hope you enjoy our first post on protein alternatives. Our goal is create a library of food industry and ingredient market posts for you, our industry colleagues.We look forward to engaging with you regularly over topics that we trust you’ll find interesting and thought-provoking. Enjoy! Humans throughout the world […]