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New products and trends are forever appearing in the food and beverage industry. We keep you informed with our focus reports!

Food focus topics

Your contact person for Food

Chantal Brühwiler

Chantal Brühwiler

Head of Business Unit Food

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24.04.2025

Baking emulsifiers: where, when, and why?

Fluctuating raw material qualities, difficult processes, and increasing consumer expectations for greater volume, longer shelf life, and softer crumb are all major challenges that…

21.03.2025

Clean Label texturants: Clean Label starches and pregelatinized flours

Clean Label products have long since broken out of their niche status, and consumers are expecting short ingredient lists that don't contain E-numbers.

24.02.2025

Special salts: functional, versatile and high quality

The range of functional foods and beverages is increasing and, with it, the demand for water-soluble minerals with high bioavailability is constantly growing.

16.01.2025

​Smoke flavour with aromas and extracts: quick, easy and cost-efficient

Smoke flavours and smoky herb extracts are alternatives to traditional smoking – quick, easy and cost-efficient! 

11.11.2024

Food & Beverage Trends of 2025: A glimpse into the future

Die Globalisierung, gehaltvolle Produkte, imperfekte Perfektion und Synergie zwischen Landwirtschaft und Technologie werden das nächste Jahr prägen.

03.10.2024

Foam-free and efficient: Defoamers in the food and beverage industry

Defoamers can be used to specifically adjust and control the formation of foam so that only the desired amount is formed.

08.08.2024

Upcycling: Brewer’s spent grain from Appenzell in the Alps

Upgrain dries and separates brewer’s spent grain and produces a diverse range of products with high protein, fibre, and mineral content.

06.08.2024

Fermentates: with high flavour complexity, a pleasant fullness and lots of umami

We are pleased to announce our partnership with The Mediterranean Food Lab (MFL). The 100% natural clean label fermentates are made from pulses, grains and by-products from food…

19.06.2024

From conventional to Bio Bud: starches and pre-gelatinized starches and flours

For gluten-containing and gluten-free applications - our products based on wheat, spelt or other cereals and pulses offer many application possibilities.

23.04.2024

Discovering Lecithin: A Versatile Natural Ingredient

Lecithin is obtained from the oil fractions of sunflower, soya bean and rapeseed oil and has special physico-chemical properties.

17.04.2024

Glucono-delta-lactone as a sustainable alternative to phosphate in baked goods

Glucono-delta-lactone produced by fermentation is an established alternative for phosphate-free doughs.

10.04.2024

The boom in drinkable meals and the role of thickeners

Carolean is a mixture of prickly pear leaves, locust bean gum and xanthan gum and increases viscosity.