ROUND-UP: Ingredients

Here is your weekly round-up of Ingredients news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at [email protected].

• DuPont Nutrition & Health is putting bakery on the weight management map with new opportunities to keep consumers fuller longer and help them reduce their calorie intake overall.
• Treatt has opened a new beverage applications centre at its UK headquarters in Bury St Edmunds.
• Chr Hansen is launching a phage robust adjunct culture that increases the fat perception of fresh dairy products and maintains good flavour through shelf life: eXact NG Flavor+.
• One in three British consumers is concerned about osteoporosis and 41% want to improve their bone health over the next 12 months, according to new survey results from Canadean.
• Following a tightening up of claims legislation, particularly in Europe, launches of functional and healthy foods which claim digestive or gut health benefits have suffered a setback in the EU.
• Synergy has launched a new range of passion fruit flavours to meet the rise in demand for more exotic tastes.
• Based on the trend towards sophisticated, darker and more adult chocolate flavours, Gerkens high impact cocoa powders from Cargill’s cocoa and chocolate business are ideally suited to provide the rich, diverse colours and tastes that consumers are demanding for premium dairy applications.