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SupplySide West Podcast 67: Food & Beverage Trends at SupplySide West 2017SupplySide West Podcast 67: Food & Beverage Trends at SupplySide West 2017

It's no surprise"clean label" is the major trend on the 2017 food and beverage scene, but the innovation lies in clean label's emerging ties to trust and transparency, and the investment brands are making to ensure their products align with consumer values. In this podcast, Judie Bizzozero, editor, Food Insider Journal, discusses the food and beverage trends she saw during the 2017 SupplySide West trade show, held Sept. 25 to 29 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, with Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, INSIDER.

It’s no surprise “clean label” is the major trend on the 2017 food and beverage scene, but the innovation lies in clean label’s emerging ties to trust and transparency, and the investment brands are making to ensure their products align with consumer values. In this podcast, Judie Bizzozero, editor, Food Insider Journal, discusses the food and beverage trends she saw during the 2017 SupplySide West trade show, held Sept. 25 to 29 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, with Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, INSIDER. Along with clean label, they cover:

  • New plant-based ingredient offerings seen on the SupplySide West Expo Hall from companies such as Glanbia, Kerry, Dupont, Cargill, Tate & Lyle and more

  • The growing trend of fermented beverages (kombucha, anyone?)

  • Sugar reduction and weight management ingredient offering that allow for tasty and indulgent products.

Join us in April 2018 for SupplySide East in Secaucus, New Jersey, to meet with more ingredient suppliers serving the food and beverage industries.

About the Author(s)

Sandy Almendarez

editor in chief, Informa

Sandy Almendarez entered the natural products industry in 2009 when she joined Virgo Publishing (now Informa Exhibitions) as an assistant editor. Since then, she's worked her way up to editor in chief where she writes, edits and manages content for INSIDER. Under Sandy’s direction, INSIDER has won editorial awards from Folio: every year since 2014, including B2B Editorial Team of the Year in 2015.

Judie Bizzozero

Content Director, Informa Markets Health & Nutrition

Judie Bizzozero oversees food and beverage content strategy and development for the Health & Nutrition group at Informa Markets (which acquired VIRGO in 2014), including the Food & Beverage Insider, Natural Products Insider and SupplySide/Food ingredients North America brands. She reports on market trends, science-based ingredients, and challenges and solutions in the development of healthy foods and beverages. Bizzozero graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

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