Ingredients

Coffee and Tea Can Hydrate, Too

While a steaming cup of coffee is probably not the first thing you would reach for after you cross the finish line of a marathon, it wouldn’t be the…
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Consumer Perceptions About Food Fraud

Download the full report. Food fraud can be defined as “the deliberate and intentional substitution, addition, tampering, or misrepresentation of food, food ingredients, or food packaging; or false or…
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What Is Maltitol?

Highlights   Maltitol is a type of carbohydrate called a sugar alcohol, or polyol.   Maltitol contains half as many calories as sugar and is 90% as sweet.   Maltitol is commercially produced from starch for use in baked goods, chewing gum, sugar-free chocolates, hard candies…
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Food Color Facts

Download the Food Colors Fact Sheet here Safety Food color additives are safe. They have been evaluated for safety by several regulatory authorities across the globe, including…
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Transglutaminase: Safety, Function and Benefit to Our Food Supply

With the rise and fall of nutritional trends, scary news about new food ingredients, and rediscoveries of traditionally used ingredients, some common parts of our food supply often fall in and out of public scrutiny. One such ingredient is Transglutaminase (TG), a naturally occurring enzyme…
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Meat and Other Novel Food Allergies

We likely all know someone allergic to peanuts, eggs, almonds or some of the other Big Eight allergens. But meat? That’s a new one. A meat allergy isn’t the only unique allergy you might run across. Cases of anaphylaxis to spices,…
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