Technology

Have you ever wondered why new ingredients are created? Which comes first, the ingredient or the problem that the ingredient was created to solve? This classic chicken-or-egg question has important implications for how the ingredient is researched and ultimately marketed. Unlike finished goods sold at retail and in foodservice, industrial ingredients are more likely to come into being due to ...

Health-care reform may have bumped national food-safety legislation from the top of Congress’s agenda in 2009, but the food industry can expect a new push in 2010 to enact laws aimed at strengthening the U.S. food-protection system. Although it could be another year before regulations are promulgated, a number of additional federal efforts to modernize the nation’s food-safety system are ...

For the better part of a century, freezing has proven a highly effective method of food preservation. Nevertheless, today’s product developers—and the ingredient processors, packaging experts and technology innovators who serve them—keep striving for greater culinary integrity, shelf life and value in the products they freeze.Compared to refrigerated foods, which hold their connection to freshness dear but have a shelf ...

Photo: American Egg BoardClassically, a Napoleon—as it’s known in the United States—is alternating layers of crispy puff pastry and egg-rich pastry cream finished with fondant icing and chocolate lace decoration. In France, it’s known as mille-feuille, and in Italy is dubbed mille foglie. Our Napoleon uses alternating layers of sponge cake and pastry cream, and the manufacturable version is freeze/thaw-stable ...

Raised or cake? Glazed or frosted? Jelly or cream?A kaleidoscope of delicious permutations turns around my mind as I peruse the dynamic rainbow of delights before my eyes, the unmistakable lingering memory of fried dough mingling with aromatic coffee in the still air.Although doughnuts didn’t begin their heyday in the United States until the 1920s, Washington Irving was already distinguishing ...