Food industry research leader and former IFT President Robert Ewing Smith, PhD, leaves a lasting legacy in food innovation, ...

Amber Beckett, PhD, is vice president of product management with WTI, Inc. where she leads product strategy and commercialization for functional ingredients and food protection solutions. She brings ...

Understand the nutritional, functional, and processing roles that fats and oils play in foods, from providing energy and essential fatty acids to contributing flavor, texture, and mouthfeel. Learn ...

Looking ahead, the impact of biotechnology will be determined less by innovation alone and increasingly by execution. Designing for manufacturability, operating with discipline, and delivering ...

Plant-based proteins like beans and lentils are trending ingredients used in many food products, including pasta. Explore Cuisine offers chickpea spaghetti, while Trader Joe’s produces colorful ...

So, what does clean label mean? Essentially, clean label means making a product using as few ingredients as possible, and making sure those ingredients are items that consumers recognize and think of ...

Plant-based meat alternatives target vegetarians and flexitarians who want to eliminate or reduce meat consumption but still crave the texture, mouthfeel, and feeling of satiety provided by ...

From tech-enhanced food safety to AI’s food innovation takeover, the IFT Science and Policy Initiatives team forecast the top five trends that will help shape the global food system in 2026 and beyond ...

Gen Zs have arrived in the workforce. And they—along with their millennial colleagues—are changing the way that work gets done. The values and expectations of early career professionals differ from ...

A December 2025 survey of 2,000 U.S. shoppers by consumer insights platform Zappi found that almost all feel the pinch of grocery price inflation. Price has surpassed taste and brand loyalty as a ...

The Science and Policy Initiatives (SPI) team at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has revealed its top five food trends that will not only impact the food and policy landscape, but redefine ...

Market researchers agree: Often the best way to understand something is with a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. So that’s what Food Technology did to arrive at our 2025 Consumer ...