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Disrupt the Dairy Case with Flavor in 2018
The past two months have been a whirlwind of trade shows and conferences, with marketers showcasing their 2018 rollouts and analysts providing insights to help guide the future. Now it’s time for the...
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Dairy Foods Vision: Clean Evolves to Premium and Health-Promoting in 2018 and...
Thank you to my friends at William Reed for inviting me to your conference extraordinaire this week. Food Vision USA, in its third installment, was held in Chicago and featured an impressive line-up of...
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Formulating Fitness Foods
There’s been a lot of talk about how long the protein craze can maintain momentum. Many in the health and wellness space are preparing for the protein story to change direction, with buzz words such as...
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Dairy Foods Forecast 2018: It’s All About Creating Disruption
Photo source: Starbucks‘Tis the season for commentary on what to expect this coming year. So, of course, I must chime in. I would like to preface that many of my predictions come from observing,...
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Dairy Foods Forecast: Ice Cream Flavor Trends 2018
Think dark, rich, ethnic, culinary…and comfort flavors.As the year starts to wind down, food and beverage market analysts issue forecasts for macro trends that will drive innovation. I take those...
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Dairy Foods Innovations: Five Opportunities for Dairy Foods Innovating and...
Photo source: DMK GroupHappy New Year! Love. Peace. Hope. My personal mantra for 2018. Professionally, let’s commit to make 2018 dairy’s best year ever by working together to promote dairy’s...
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Sugar will be a Leading Label Claim on Dairy Foods in 2018
Two weeks into the New Year and I am confident in stating that sugar content will a leading label claim on dairy foods in 2018. If reducing or eliminating added sugar is not a priority for you yet,...
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Never Underestimate the Power of the Package; Are You Due for a Redesign?
The Winter Fancy Food Show starts in two days. During the past few weeks I have received many sneak peaks of food and beverage innovations to debut at the show. Many product descriptions sound...
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Next-Generation Dairy Snacks: Processors Need to Play the Convenience Card
Just the other day I read this recent stat: 17% of consumers who purchase soup through a foodservice channel consider it to be a snack. This is up from 11% percent in 2015, according to Technomic....
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Cold Brew Coffee and Milk Make the Perfect Match
The percentage of Americans drinking coffee on a daily basis increased to 62% this past year, up from 57% in 2016, according to the National Coffee Association. This increase may be attributed to the...
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Why Plant-Based Products Make Sense in your Dairy Foods Portfolio: A Lesson...
Before farmer and cooperative readers send me disheartening notes, please hear me out on today’s topic of why it makes good business sense for dairy processors to offer dairy alternatives. And please...
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Yogurt in the U.S. in 2018. Three Concepts for Innovation Inspiration.
Many U.S. refrigerated yogurt retail departments are a disaster. There are too many options, too many flavors, too many package sizes. Yep, I write this blog on innovation and I’m going to be as direct...
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Expo West 2018: Protein Preview
In less than a week I hope to see many of you in Anaheim at Expo West 2018, which promises to be the biggest and most diverse natural products exposition ever. This is due to the mainstreaming of...
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Dairy Foods: Innovation Knows No Limits at Expo West 2018
Welcome to Expo West 2018, where there is an estimated 82,000-plus attendees exploring innovations from more than 3,500 exhibitors, of which 600 are first-time exhibitors. The first day of the...
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Natural Products Expo West 2018: “Fresh dairy” observations to influence your...
It’s been less than a week since the 38th annual Expo West wrapped up in Anaheim. It goes without saying that natural, organic and clean-label conversations dominated the exposition floor. After three...
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Ice Cream Category Disruptor #1: Better-for-You, Higher-in-Protein Formulations
A new generation of ice cream entrepreneurs is disrupting the ice cream category, using everything from global and local flavors, small-batch and hand-packed options, and sports nutrition and snack...
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Ice Cream Category Disruptor #2: The Power of the Pint Package
Pints are a powerful package size in the world of ice cream. By definition, pints hold 16 fluid ounces of product; however, for economics, some “pint” packs contain a little less.Regardless of how much...
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Ice Cream Category Disruptor #3: Dark, Yet Comforting Flavor Trends
Photo source: Hudsonville Ice CreamThis is the third and final blog on innovation trends that are disrupting retailers’ ice cream freezers. If you want to hear me speak on this topic, there’s still...
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Next-Generation Cheese Innovations
Photo source: Boar’s HeadWelcome to a week of everything cheese. It all started yesterday (April 12), which was National Grilled Cheese Day and will continue this upcoming week in Milwaukee at the...
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Dairy Foods Trends: Contemporizing Curd
Cheese, cheese and more cheese. That’s what many of us experienced this past week in Milwaukee at the International Cheese Technology Exposition. With that, we also experienced snow, snow and more...
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