There was a bumper crop of naturally derived blue colors at this summer’s IFT Expo. Suppliers tell how they help dairies formulate with clean-label colorants that also perform effectively in application.
The consensus following this year’s Institute of Food Technologists’ annual meeting and expo in Chicago is that the trend driving current food and beverage development is clean labeling. But you already knew that.
The push to give ingredient statements a healthy scrub has been a “thing” for a while now. And even when labeling cleanliness isn’t the explicit R&D goal, odds are that a closely allied imperative is, whether it be “natural” formulation, organic sourcing or merely trimming the number of ingredients used in a product.