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Prepared Foods June 1, 2005 Leslie Skarra	Fixing Formulas with Fiber There are two main reasons why fiber is included in food formulations today: for a functional effect in a food system or for a human physiological effect. Product development approaches for these two goals are very different.
Prepared Foods July 22, 2007 Elizabeth Mannie	Texture-enhancement Tactics Texture management helps maximize shelflife, improve quality characteristics, and more in reduced-fat and reduced-calorie foods.
Food Processing October 2011	Resistant Starch 101: A Guide to Understanding This Fiber-Like Starch Resistant starches from several vegetable sources are available to up the fiber and lower your body weight.
Prepared Foods October 1, 2006	Using Gums in "Clean Label" Formulations Gums can contribute multiple functional properties while helping to maintain a clean label. This is especially important as consumers are beginning to understand food ingredient labels.
Prepared Foods February 5, 2006	Benefiting Beverage Formulas Tips on how to obtain optimal viscosity, taste, flavor and nutritional profiles for beverages.
Prepared Foods May 1, 2005 Marcia A. Wade	"Better-for-you" Beverages The taste and content of healthy beverages has come a long way since bottled water. However, if a better-for-you product does not balance health perception, texture and taste, consumer acceptance will be a complete washout.
Prepared Foods October 2007 Elizabeth Mannie	Article: Smoother Smoothies and Frozen Desserts Available in many types and form, texture-saving ingredients are available to address even the most complex food system, processing, shelflife or storage conditions.
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Prepared Foods May 6, 2007 Elizabeth Mannie	Formulating Tasteful Nutritional Products From probiotics to soy isoflavones, the challenge is to maintain a product's health benefits while providing products that please consumer taste buds.
Prepared Foods January 1, 2007	Essential Facts on Functional Fibers The optimal use of dietary fiber ingredients depends on understanding a variety of aspects -- ranging from their definitions to issues in the formulation and processing of foods
Food Processing June 2006	Ingredient Round-Up: Gums & hydrocolloids These ingredients deliver fantastic functionality to processors of bakery, beverage, dairy, center-of-the-plate protein and other food products.
Prepared Foods February 5, 2006	Enhancing Baked Goods' Quality A conference featuring omega-3s and other fortifiers, proteins and stabilizers useful to formulators wrestled with new product concepts.
Food Processing March 2012 Mark Anthony	Understanding Soluble Fibers and Insoluble Fibers Food processors would be wise to decipher the subtle differences between soluble and insoluble fibers.
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Nutra Solutions March 15, 2006 Marcia A. Wade	Moving Fiber off the Shelves Numerous studies have provided indisputable evidence that additional fiber in the diet helps to reduce coronary heart disease. Since fruits and vegetables are mostly water, eating those types of foods is only one method by which to increase fiber.
Prepared Foods June 2, 2006 Marcia A. Wade	Fiber du Jour Fiber, in its many forms, is influential at abating and controlling a number of chronic diseases. Dietary guidelines do not differentiate between soluble fiber and insoluble fiber, but manufacturers will need to understand their benefits and disadvantages.
Prepared Foods October 2007 Daniel Best	Article: Glossary: Dietary Fiber's State of Confusion A focus on the meaning of prebiotics, digestible and indigestible carbohydrates and crude, total, insoluble and soluble dietary fiber.
Prepared Foods May 2009	R&D: Ingredient Technologies to Tackle Textures When properly used, proteins, starches to hydrocolloid gums solve a myriad of texture challenges, when formulating foods and beverages.
Prepared Foods February 3, 2006 Marcia A. Wade	Mother Hubbard's New Cupboard Insights into the "rhyme and reason" behind ingredients used to formulate and market weight control products.
Prepared Foods July 1, 2005 Marcia A. Wade	The Importance of Being Protein Milk, egg, wheat and soy proteins can pass for other ingredients and create fluffy, flowing and fabulous textures.
Prepared Foods May 1, 2006	Gumming for the Alternative The proper selection of a food gum is critical to its ultimate efficacy in a food matrix.
Prepared Foods April 1, 2005 Marcia A. Wade	Double-duty Dietary Fibers A new manufacturing process creates a wide range of food-grade fibers -- from low-absorbing to high water-binding types of fiber particles. The structure of the oat fiber is altered during the extraction process, allowing for better functionality.
Prepared Foods December 1, 2005	Beverage Blueprints Soy drinks, weighting agents in beverages and the challenges of fortifying with healthful ingredients.
Prepared Foods October 1, 2005 Marcia A. Wade	I'll Drink to That More choices in healthful, great-tasting dairy and soy drinks are appearing in the refrigerated dairy case than ever before as manufacturers are hoping that new product concepts will enlighten consumers.
Food Processing January 2005 Kantha Shelke	Healthful flour alternatives Modern manufacturing practices are practically built around flour, making it a difficult ingredient to substitute for in the production of low-carb and low-glycemic foods. And while there are many healthful alternates to flour available, food formulators are finding they often demand compromise.
Prepared Foods May 2009	R&D: Healthy Endeavors, from Pre- to Probiotics Speakers at an R&D Applications Seminar series offer formulation solutions in an area of growing popularity: probiotics, prebiotics and dietary fiber.
Food Processing September 2011 Mark Anthony	The New Look of Fiber Fiber, as a natural dietary component, continues to garner attention, and as a versatile food additive it can enhance the attraction of almost any product.
Prepared Foods February 2008 Richard F. Stier	R&D Application: Innovations in Dressings, Sauces and Dips Hydrocolloids or gums provide food product developers with a multitude of functional options.
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Prepared Foods December 12, 2006 Elizabeth Mannie	Formulations Assists for Sauces and Dressings Adding gums to a liquid... Savory sauces and marinades... Trend tracking tools...
Food Processing October 2012 Mark Anthony	Understanding Polydextrose and How It Works Lengthen shorter chain polymers of different sugars and you get this designer soluble fiber.
Food Processing October 2011 Mark Anthony	Energy Drinks Take Aim at Busy Consumers Consumers are flocking to energy drinks in an attempt to feel better about nutrition while maintaining our 21st Century fast-paced lifestyle.
Food Processing April 2006 Kantha Shelke	The New Diabetes Formulation Paradigm The recent trend of developing diabetes-specific products that are mainstream and safe enough for regular consumption could transcend all healthy food and beverage categories.
Prepared Foods April 1, 2005 Lauren Swann	Ingredient Challenges: Formulation Challenge: Shaping Sweet Success for Reduced-sugar Foods Sugared-down products have risen in just about every category where sugar can possibly be altered, and food formulators have many new options for "sugaring down" their products. But when using these ingredients, careful attention to nutrition labeling is critical.
Nutra Solutions September 1, 2005 Rachel Tepper	GIs Fighting with Fiber Colloides Naturels' revolutionary Fibregum, 100% acacia gum, has been proven to significantly reduce the total glycemic index of food products.
Food Processing March 2013 Mark Anthony	Study Suggests High Dietary Fiber Related to Low Levels of Insulin Resistance in Women Consumers can add insulin resistance as an increasingly important concern along with obesity and type 2 diabetes; however, food processors can add fiber and resistant starch to help counter that concern.
Prepared Foods July 11, 2007 Richard F. Stier	R&D Applications Seminar: Processed Meats Seminars that meet the challenges of formulators of meat products.
Prepared Foods October 2007 Richard F. Stier	Article: R&D Seminars: Challenged R&D Omega-3s in Functional Foods... Fiber in Beverages... Describing Water Activity... Natural Reds in Beverage Systems...
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Food Processing July 2012	Food Processors Looking at the Whole (Grain) Truth About Breakfast Cereal Despite what seems to be a perpetual war on carbohydrates, it's hard to escape this enduring tradition.
Food Processing July 2005 Kantha Shelke	Hidden ingredients take cover in a capsule Precision microencapsulation technologies can mask the taste or color of nutrients, mitigate nutrient loss during processing and generally help processors create foods with added value.
Prepared Foods August 11, 2006	Abstracts Baby Boomers bored with same-old menu recommendations... New carrageenan technology makes transparent, gelatin-free jelly-type desserts... Unique savory seasoning... Looking at the Hispanic market... Low-sodium solutions... etc.
Prepared Foods February 2, 2007 Claudia O'Donnell	A PF Exclusive: Turning the Tide The trend toward increased obesity may be reversing itself, although challenges remain.
Nutra Solutions September 1, 2006	Condition-Specific Products While generally healthful foods likely will continue to make up the bulk of "good-for-you" items on grocery store shelves, foods and supplements that target specific health conditions are on the rise.
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Prepared Foods February 1, 2005 Richard F. Stier	Ingredient Challenges: Emulsifiers Offer Options Emulsifiers, an integral part of food manufacturing and product development, are used in a wide range of products and processes. But the type of emulsifier selected demands careful consideration because it can impact product clarity, stability and texture.
Food Processing August 2010 Mark Anthony	Building Healthier Desserts Processors have been trying for nearly a generation to bridge the gulf between the reality of dessert and the concept of health.
Prepared Foods October 2007 Elizabeth Mannie	Article: Formulating Foods and Beverages for Enhanced Immunity Many ingredients have been found to enhance immunity and are popping up in new products on store shelves everywhere. Some of the more common ingredients are discussed here.