• Know where food and beverage manufacturers will be making R&D investments in 2025.
• Uncover what trends will inspire new product ideas and guide priorities with ingredients in the months ahead. 
• Understand the most significant challenges facing R&D departments today. 
• Learn what factors are influencing R&D product development strategies and risk tolerance.

This live webinar will cover the state of the plant-based dairy and meat alternative markets. Discover the pressing challenges facing manufacturers and gain insights into innovative solutions crafted by product developers to meet or exceed consumer expectations. Uncover the evolving landscape of consumer demands, explore proactive strategies and gain foresight into the market’s trajectory over the next three to five years.

Move over Metamucil! Dietary fiber is shedding its geriatric reputation, revolutionizing product development and marketing by reinventing beloved pantry staples. High-fiber white flour is integrating a critical nutrient Americans need more of into great-tasting products we already eat. In response to increased consumer demand for fiber benefits like gut health, prebiotic effects and healthy microbiome, learn how food manufacturers are closing the fiber gap while increasing interest and market share, in-aisle.

Join this webinar featuring a consumer insights expert, CPG representative and ingredient innovator to explore new ways brands can leverage fiber to promote better-for-you products and impact bottom line.

This 30-minute webinar looks at the market forces influencing snacking, including inflation and cocoa and sugar commodity prices. Plus, Food Business News’ editors will review the latest emerging consumer trends and how product developers are translating those insights into innovative new products.

As artificial intelligence (AI) applications develop, what impact will they have on insight development, ideation and production? Learn about the future benefits and challenges that AI will present for food and beverage product developers.

Explore what’s new and what’s next in the packaged food and beverage marketplace with the Food Entrepreneur Experience. This spring’s virtual Food Entrepreneur Experience will feature interviews with finalists from SNAC International’s SNX SNAC Tank competition. Scott Dicker, market insights director, SPINS, will also share market data and insights on the latest snack trends.

The flavors and applications that will drive food and beverage innovation in 2024 are the focus of this 30-minute webinar. The editors of Food Business News will deliver their perspectives on the trends driving flavor innovation and identify the top flavor trends from 2023 that will carry over into 2024 and beyond. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to learn about the flavors consumers will be craving in the year ahead.

Weather has emerged as the dominant factor in grain markets this year with heat, drought and El Niño impacting global crops, adding to uncertainty about the war in Ukriane, exports and food inflation amid volatile commodity prices. Insights from commodity and weather experts presenting at the Sosland Purchasing Seminar Winter Webinar on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, will provide insight to navigate the markets.

Join the editors of Food Business News to learn about accelerating plant-based innovation. This 30-minute webinar covers the new products and startups driving change in the market for meat- and dairy-alternatives.

In this live webinar, learn how to improve texture and enhance nutrition in foodservice applications all while managing costs. Ingredion experts will show examples of their latest ingredient solutions to address a range of challenges from adhesion in battering and breadings to using cost-optimizing plant-based ingredient solutions.