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If you’re looking for the best chocolatey ingredient to include in your recipes, you’ll most definitely have come across both cocoa and cacao powder. While both sources of chocolate are kind of the same thing, they are also very different. It’s important to know these differences when including either in your recipes, as there are… Continue reading →

Dried fruits are a very popular snack and a deliciously healthy addition to recipes. Dried fruits contain nearly all of the same nutrition benefits as fresh fruit, providing you with essential vitamins, minerals, fiber and phytonutrients. They also don’t spoil anywhere near as quickly as ripe fruit and store well, making them an ideal staple… Continue reading →

Do you have a good idea for a new food product? Have you often been told that you should sell your salad dressing, chocolate chip cookies or pasta sauce? If you are thinking of marketing your food product, there’s a lot more involved than simply being a good cook and having a good idea. A… Continue reading →

Chocolate is one of the most well loved treats out there and is an incredibly popular ingredient to use in recipes. This is why keeping it in the pantry as a baking staple is an absolute must. But while chocolate has a relatively long shelf life, it can spoil before you’ve even gotten a chance… Continue reading →

When researching the healthiest and most delicious dried fruits out there, you may have been surprised to come across a variety of nuts included on these lists. Since when is a nut considered a dry fruit? Or have all of these tasty dry snacks been tricking us all along? While both nuts and dried fruits… Continue reading →

Dried fruit is one of the easiest and most popular ways to eat fruit and is especially popular with hikers due to its convenience. It’s also a fantastic ingredient to have in your kitchen for including in your food products and recipes. However, due to the nature of dried fruit, it can be incredibly difficult… Continue reading →

Big data in the food industry is being applied in a number of ways, revolutionizing how businesses run daily operations and streamlining complex processes across the board. If you’re looking for the right food product launch strategy, you might be surprised at just how much this technology can support your efforts. We’ll look at the… Continue reading →

As a food business consultant, we have observed that one of the main struggles business owners in the food industry encounter is the high cost of packaging for food products. This gets even more challenging where the laws are extremely strict on the quality and type of food packaging materials that food companies are required… Continue reading →

The main metric for measuring the success of a business is gauging the amount and quality of sales it makes within a given time. As a food business consultant, the issue of sales comes up quite often in our consultations with clients in the food industry who would love to boost their sales volume. It… Continue reading →

According to a report in Barrons, eight out of 10 consumers report that they value sustainability, with about 70 percent of those polled stating that they would be willing to pay an average of 35 percent more for products that are environmentally friendly. And with any sort of increased demand for sustainable products is going… Continue reading →

Most food processing businesses usually struggle to keep their food products contamination free. Given that processed foods are a delicate commodity that would easily put you into trouble with the law if they became unsafe for human consumption, you will want to ensure you keep up with the best trends in food preservation. You do… Continue reading →

In most places all over the world, the cost of production of products and services remains one of the biggest expenses businesses incur every day. While this usually centers on the cost of labor and other resources like energy, today we will focus solely on the cost of acquiring the raw materials for the production… Continue reading →