Category: Ingredients
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ADM’s Berlin flavour centre is supporting faster formulation work. The site brings flavour systems, extracts, speciality ingredients, and application development into one European hub for food and beverage manufacturers.
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AAK has launched ILLEXAO EN 10 for global enrobed applications. The cocoa butter equivalent is designed to stabilise flow, reduce buildup, and preserve sensory quality at higher substitution levels.
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DMK has opened lactoferrin capacity at its Altentreptow dairy site. The €25m plant adds specialised milk-protein production, chromatography infrastructure, and commercial supply capability for nutrition, health, and pharmaceutical applications.
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Heartland Food Products Group is acquiring Whole Earth Brands’ Americas business, adding Equal, Whole Earth, Swerve, and Chuker to a portfolio that already includes Splenda. The deal expands Heartland’s sugar-reduction, formulation, foodservice, and B2B capabilities.
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TraceGains has launched Formula AI, an AI-powered laboratory and workspace for food scientists and product developers. The platform combines formulation tools, supplier and ingredient intelligence, compliance data, and collaborative workflows in a single development environment.
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The EU has suspended customs tariffs on key nitrogen fertilisers for one year. The measure covers products including urea and ammonia as input costs continue to shape agricultural production, crop planning, and downstream food manufacturing prices.
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EPAX Cetoleic 2040 reduced LDL-cholesterol by 7% after eight weeks in a randomised clinical trial of overweight and obese adults, adding human data to the emerging category of marine long-chain monounsaturated fatty acids.
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T. Hasegawa USA has launched HASEMILK, a powdered dairy-free flavour technology designed to recreate milk taste, aroma, and mouthfeel in plant-based beverages, bakery, desserts, sauces, and dry mixes.
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Soufflet Malt and Ferments du Futur have started an 18-month programme to develop cocoa alternatives from fermented sprouted grains, using solid-state fermentation and a four-ton demonstrator in France to test flavour, functionality, and scalable ingredient production.
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SKS Copack has recalled powdered beverage mixes over Salmonella risk. The US incident extends the California Dairies dry milk recall chain into cafés, restaurants, smoothie bases, and specialty drink systems.