The gluten-free market continues in its popularity, from savory snacks to sweet cakes and everything in between. To produce foods that offer quality taste and texture, bakers rely on a number of wheat flour replacements. One source offering multiple solutions is cassava flour and starches. The ingredients obtained from this [...]
Chips What are chips? Chips are snack products which can be made from either cereals or tubers, such as corn or potatoes. Potato chips are perhaps the most famous snack products ever consumed. Chips can be made using several processing technologies, or their combinations, including: Extrusion cooking Frying Drying Extrusion and frying [...]
As gluten-free products fill the market, so do gluten-free flours that can hold up in commercially baked goods. Different sources offer different benefits and challenges for bakers, so it’s nice to find a gluten-free option that provides additional benefits for its niche—like how sweet rice flour can also improve low fat and fat free snack [...]
What’s one of the fastest growing areas of the baking industry with lots of room for innovation and new products? Tortillas! From wraps to tacos to chips, tortillas are big right now. In fact, the global tortilla market is projected to reach over $48 billion at a CAGR of 5.10% by 2023. So to help [...]
Cornmeal What is Cornmeal? Cornmeal is a coarsely milled product obtained from dried corn (maize) kernels. It is the mid-size fraction of ground corn and is available in various colors (blue, purple, yellow and white) depending on the corn color itself. It is gluten-free and the basic component of many food and [...]
