Label-Friendly Ingredient Solutions

Raising the Bar on Protein

Innovative new plant proteins are making it possible to deliver the higher protein levels that consumers crave – together with delicious flavor profiles and greater texture flexibility.

Ingredient Advancements Fuel Sports Nutrition Innovations

With double-digit growth in recent years, the sports nutrition market is a winning proposition for brands. But rising competition and complexity demand nothing less than your "A" game.

New Standards in Sweetness

Sugar has been on consumers’ minds for a number or years now. But conflicting attitudes and evolving palates can make product development tricky. We offer inspiration for sweet innovation.

Crafting Delicious, Keto-Friendly Cookies

Mainstream consumers are increasingly gaining an appetite for high-protein, low-carb keto foods. Cargill bakery experts discuss the market's rich potential and share formulation strategies for crafting protein-rich, sugar-reduced cookies that deliver on indulgence.

Bakery Boom

While bakery products may be the ultimate comfort food, these strategies for improving baked goods' nutritional profile present exciting opportunities for innovation.

Plant-based Bakery Reboot

Consumers are discovering that baked goods can experience a healthy reset without compromising taste or texture.

Nutritional beverage powders up their game

Powdered beverage mixes have elevated their performance and expanded into the mainstream. But these higher expectations bring formulation challenges. Cargill technical experts unpack solutions for delivering on complex goals.

Reduced-Sugar Chocolate Beverages

It's possible to create surprisingly indulgent chocolate beverages with significantly less sugar. Cargill's expertise and ingredients can help you create delicious chocolaty drinks your consumers will love. 

Sweet Solutions: Stevia Breakthrough Aims to Upend No-Sugar-Added Soda Fountain Formulation

Product developers have long searched for zero-calorie alternatives to sugar and artificial sweeteners at the soda fountain. EverSweet® + ClearFlo™ offers a breakthrough.

Create Cutting-Edge Confectionery

Over the past couple of years, consumers turned to indulgence for a boost…then realized that too much isn't a good thing. Confectioners now have the opportunity to remake sweets in a healthier image. 

Confectionery Conundrum

As with most other food and beverage categories, healthier, better-for-you options are also pervading confectionery. There has been a definitive shift toward new or reformulated confections that offer guilt-free indulgence.

This sugar alternative is worth celebrating

Erythritol: ideal for food and beverage applications that promote sugar reduction.

New Nature of Convenience

Spending more time at home has re-shaped ideas about mealtime and the role of convenience foods. Tap into these strategies for rapid-prep success.  

Modernizing Mealtime

Indications are that some of the pandemic's impact on consumer eating habits represent more wide-scale, permanent changes. See what that means for product development.

No-compromise Convenience

Food culture shifts have prompted a revolution in the industry over the past decade, with convenience foods at the forefront. 

Deciphering Dairy

Dairy alternatives may have disrupted the category in recent years, but dairy is still a huge global market with a lot going for it.

Plant-based Dairy by Design

As plant-based dairy alternatives continue to gain momentum, it will be increasingly important to push the envelope in innovation and sourcing.

Redefining Dairy Innovation

Humans may have been consuming dairy since the Neolithic age,1 but modern-day dairy is evolving at a dizzying pace. Dairy — and its plant-based alternatives — is a key focus of innovation at Cargill.

Taking the Measure of Plant-based Meat Alternatives

With widening adoption and heightened performance in plant-based meat alternatives, it's essential to keep pushing boundaries in formulation innovation. Learn more in our article.

Plant-based Revolution

What's next? Learn how consumers are embracing the idea of plant-based eating in a big way.

Plant-Based Proteins and the Convenience Factor

Plant-based meat alternatives are emerging as the new star of the alternative category, and as these products reach parity in taste, texture and price, they are also gaining steam in one of America’s favorite food categories – convenience.

Strategic Snacks

As snacking has become an integral part of daily life, the baseline for success has undergone a seismic shift.

We share consumer insights and current trends shaping snack strategy.

How Tortilla Chips Transformed American Snackers

Tortilla chips are a national snacking staple. And why not? The crunchy, corn-based treat dials into many of the biggest trends in the snack landscape as well as sensory appeal. Learn more about this delightful snack in our report.

Trends in Healthy Snacking

As snacking has become a mega-trend, the category itself has been transformed. Learn how to cater to current consumer expectations.

Ingredient Advancements Fuel Sports Nutrition Innovations

With double-digit growth in recent years, the sports nutrition market is a winning proposition for brands. But rising competition and complexity demand nothing less than your "A" game.

Sustainable Developments

As people become more sophisticated in their understanding of environmental and public health issues, they increasingly expect brands to align with their values.

Setting the Standard for Sustainable Stevia Production

Learn how Cargill is setting the standards for sustainable stevia through multi-level programs focused on agronomy, environmental, social and economic practices that assure full traceability.

Sustainable Sweetness

Proprietary research shows that sustainability claims are carrying ever-more weight in purchase decisions. Learn how Cargill's multifaceted approach to sustainable sweeteners can help you win with consumers.