Supplier Spotlight: Maple Syrup Demand Continues to Grow

naturally clean label, sustainable sweetening and flavor solutions

Bascom Maple Farms cites the versatility of maple syrup as one of the reasons that demand for pure maple syrup continues to grow. IRI data shows a 5% increase in sales from May 2023 to May 2024, and national brands of pure maple syrup experienced a 9.3% increase in dollar sales. Read More

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Suplier Spotlight: Inland Empire Foods Legumes

bean, pea, and lentil ingredients in whole beans, flakes and flours

Inland Empire Foods has a passion for advancing the culinary and nutritional benefits of legumes. They’ve followed that passion since 1985 by manufacturing legume ingredients with a focus on flavor and functionality.

Their beans and legumes are available in whole, flake, and flour produced from only the finest of natural legumes. Read More

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Supplier Spotlight: True Citrus Crystalized Citrus and Next Generation Fruit Powders

Bringing Real Flavor to Life™

No more artificial ingredients or artificial taste. No more sourcing for fresh fruit ingredients. No more storage concerns. No more waste. True Citrus has one-of-a-kind crystalized citrus and next generation fruit powders that deliver unsurpassed taste, performance and value to nearly any hot or cold food and beverage applications. They combine proprietary formulating and innovative drying technologies to bring dry fruit systems to a higher level of authentic fresh fruit taste and aroma. And they come in a highly versatile, concentrated and simple-to-use, easy to store form. Read More

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Supplier Spotlight: Seawind Organic Dehydrated Vegetables

Organic Dehydrated Vegetables
exceptional nutrient retention, extended shelf life, and application adaptability

Seawind’s dehydrated vegetable products are known for their exceptional nutrient retention, extended shelf life, and adaptability for various applications, including options such as powders, granules, dice, flakes, and custom sizes. In addition, they offer air dried, freeze dried, and spray dried with organic options available. Seawind maintains direct relationships with carefully chosen global partners who supply them with ingredients, ensuring the utmost quality from source to finished product. Read More

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Supplier Spotlight: QST Smoke Flavors

Standard and Custom Blended Natural Liquid Smoke provided with Quality, Service and Trust’

QST’s reputation for Quality, Service & Trust – focusing on custom blended ingredients – has quickly helped them become the go-to supplier of liquid smoke for a variety of applications. Food processors that require anything from a light smoked note, to a heavy smoke accent can rely on QST’s line of smoke and browning agents to provide just the right touch. Read More

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Supplier Spotlight: Franklin Baker Desiccated Coconut

The freshest coconut from one of the largest global suppliers

Franklin Baker is one of the largest global suppliers of desiccated coconut products. They control the process from tree through shipment. Their products are produced at one of their three manufacturing facilities, from the freshest coconuts available. Proprietary processing is utilized to ensure freshness and long shelf stability.

Franklin Baker offers an extensive portfolio of Conventional and Organic coconut products, including desiccated coconut (natural, sweetened and toasted), creamed coconut, and coconut oil. Read More

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Supplier Spotlight: Producers Rice Ingredients

Flavorful and Gluten-Free Solutions using Rice Flour and Crisp Rice

Rice is growing as a gluten-free alternative to other grains. Gluten-free options are becoming popular with more and more people because of Celiac disease and other health considerations. And there are other advantages as well. Producers Rice Ingredients manufactures a diverse offering of rice products that are utilized by multiple segments of the food industry.

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Suppllier Spotlight: Sioux Honey – Natural and On-Trend

Natural and On-Trend

The Sioux Honey Association was formed in 1921 and is now a co-op of over 150 beekeepers nationwide. Their reputation for quality is well known. They use a rigorous testing process that includes establishing where honey is coming from, the floral source and the geographic location. They pull samples from every single batch of honey, testing it for certain attributes like color, moisture, purity, pollen and more.

Honey from Sioux Honey is more than just high-quality. It’s also on-trend for both flavor and as a natural and clean-label ingredient that consumers are increasingly looking for.

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Supplier Spotlight: SupHerb Farms® – Flavor as Nature Intended

Clean, simply processed industrial culinary ingredients packed with natural farm fresh flavor.

SupHerb Farms®’ IQF culinary herbs, specialty vegetables, blends, pastes and purées provide Flavor as Nature Intended. Their ingredients are simply processed, clean-label and high in volatile oils.

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Supplier Spotlight: Nielsen-Massey Premium Alcohol-Free Vanilla Solution

Premium Alcohol-Free Vanilla Solution

Nielsen-Massey’s new Alcohol-Free Madagascar Vanilla offers a premium solution for applications that require no presence of alcohol. They used their proprietary extraction method but replaced alcohol with a plant-based glycerin.

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