Improvement of frozen bakery goods with carboxymethyl chitosan – new ingredient on the market

New ingredient to improve frozen bakery goods shelf-life is always welcome. It known challenge to keep water inside the product not damaging protein structure of the dough and seem carboxymethyl chitosan can bring new features. What will happen if combining with wheat bran antifreeze polysaccharides?! Source: Effect of carboxymethyl chitosan on the storage stability […]
Fuzzy’s Taco Shop strengthen the team with new appointment of Scott Shotter as COO

Congrats to Scott Shotter with new appointment as COO of Fuzzy’s Taco Shop. I am sure Scott will do a great job in developing Fuzzy’s franchising Source: Fuzzy’s hires former Backyard Burgers CEO as COO
Kevin Eiden appointed as VP foodservice at Quorn

Congrats Kevin Eiden with your appointment as VP of foodservice at Quorn. All the good luck to you and the team Source: Quorn Foods USA Appoints New VP Foodservice
Food waste reduction – “new” cold plasma technology on the horizon
Cold plasma to help fighting the food waste. Surely more development needed to avoid application fats oxidation and packaging depolymerisation but the seed is there. Good potential to supplement other technologies like SoFresh. PS nice video explaining cold plasma Source 1: In-package plasma: From reactive chemistry to innovative food preservation technologies Source 2: In-package cold […]
Advancement in measuring TBHQ levels in oils

Safety first is the main principal in any manufacturing and current advanced technology will help to control levels of TBHQ in oils with high precision. Source: Nanomolar detection of food additive tert-butylhydroquinone in edible oils based on novel ternary metal oxide embedded β-cyclodextrin functionalized carbon black