Round-Up: Ingredients

Here is your weekly round-up of ingredients news. Next week’s round-up will focus on packaging news. To submit an item for inclusion, please contact Carly Wood at [email protected].

• The newly formed Gluten Free Industry Association (GFIA) will support companies involved in the manufacture and trade of gluten-free products, which have experienced significant growth.
• Yoplait has announced a 17% sugar reduction in Petits Filous in a significant recipe reformulation that also sees vitamin D fortification increased to 50% NRV per portion.
• Algatechnologies (Algatech) is proud to be part of the FoodConnects consortium, the winner of a pan European competition on the Food4Future call.
• EHL Ingredients is gearing up for a year of alternative ingredients and flavours in 2017, as demand for foods from exotic global regions become increasingly mainstream.
• As many as 73% of consumers are happy to pay a higher retail price for a food or drink product made with ingredients they recognise and trust, according to new research.
• Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has reopened its oilseed processing facility in Chornomorsk (formerly Illichivsk), Ukraine, after completing a major expansion and improvement project that almost doubles the plant’s sunflower seed processing capacity and adds switch capacity that allows the plant to crush rapeseed.