Innovation means finding new solutions to food and beverage challenges consistently. Posts highlight how new technologies, formulations, and creative thinking solve product problems and bring fresh, differentiated offerings to market successfully.
Every year, Fall marks a season of change. But it’s more than just back to school, changing leaves, and football season. It’s a signal of excitement that the holiday season is approaching. Or, as it should be called in the food and beverage industry, “LTO (limited-time offering) season” for holiday ice cream flavors. But why? …
Clean label formulations are no longer a trend; they’re becoming much more than that. Consumers are increasingly looking for clean label ingredients in the products they choose every day. Now, “cleaner” ingredients are a primary driver dictating current and future developments and a new standard for many brands. It may be due to regulations, consumer …
Botanical flavors in bakery are on the rise. Floral, herbaceous, spiced. These flavors are subtly igniting consumer imaginations and developers’ innovations across categories. In fact, as of 2025, the global botanical flavors market alone was valued at USD 9.0 billion. That is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.6%, reaching more than USD 20.5 …
Functional botanicals in ice cream might be ready for their moment. Long seen as novel and niche, botanicals uniquely fall at the intersection of some of this decade’s biggest trends.With an industry-wide shift towards healthier, functional, and better-for-you products and growing consumer demand for flavor exploration, incorporating botanicals in ice cream is an incredible way …
The US food and beverage industry is experiencing one of the biggest shifts in decades. With macro movements like elevated nostalgia, internationally inspired tastes, the premiumization of segment staples, and cleaner, more natural labels charting course across categories, fruit trends in bakery are following suit. However, when compared to the “anything goes” approach of categories …
Part 2: Bakery Trends for Food Developers In Part 1 of our A Roadmap to the Trends that Matter for Food Developers series, we explored ice cream trends that are not only dictating the market in 2026 but will continue to shape developments in 2027, 2028, and beyond. Here, we turn our attention to bakery …
Lists of 2026 ice cream trends are important. But they’re probably less valuable for developers than you might think. Their primary purpose isn’t to tell you what’s next; it’s actually to tell you what they already know will be filling store shelves in 2026. So, what’s often labeled “the next big thing” is usually code …
The Power of Nostalgic Flavors in Food and Beverage Nostalgic flavors are nothing new. The way they’re impacting the food and beverage industry is. The question is why? In a world of constant uncertainty, nostalgic foods help ground us in the comfort and familiarity of the past. I live in a place where the State …
I think it’s time we start talking about how, at the end of the day, food and beverage product formats drive development. Now, don’t get me wrong, trends are incredibly important when it comes to inspiring innovation. But as appealing as they can be, they aren’t always a fit for everyone. Even if a taste …
Why is it becoming essential for organizations to build a culture of innovation? Between drastically shortened development pipelines that can send R&D into a frenzy and consumer demands changing so fast they could give you whiplash, everyone demands the same solution. More innovation. While individual “Eureka!” moments that change the industry do happen, for most …
