Choosing New Alternatives to Alternative Ingredients

Choices! Choices! Choices! As my mother used to say, or perhaps it was Mr. Spock on Star Trek, there are always alternatives in life. And, especially in recent years, ingredient suppliers are demonstrating this fact with a wide array of alternative ingredients, some of which can even be described as alternatives to alternative ingredients.

These ingredients, which replace more traditional types, may be used by food manufacturers to develop new products or reformulate existing ones. They may be ch…