Choosing Ingredients for the Time Capsule

Since this is the last IFT Food Expo of the 1900s, it would be appropriate to do an “ingredients time capsule.” That way, a century from now, food scientists and marketers will have an idea where we were—from an ingredients standpoint—at the close of the century.

For our time capsule, we picked a dozen ingredients or applications that we thought were interesting or novel, and may be reflective of the directions that ingredients of the future may go. Obviously, this is a very small roundup. For a …