Emerging Ingredients: And the Winners Are!

For the past four years, I’ve been doing an annual ingredients section on “emerging ingredients.” As I’ve defined them in the past, these novel cutting-edge developments may shape parameters for future ingredients, helping us to rethink what they are, what technologies are used in their production, and what roles they play in health, functionality, and convenience.

This year we certainly have a wide array of ingredients to choose from. Since our Annual Meeting was in Anaheim this year (and that’s…