Empower Customers to Make Informed Food Choices
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Resources
How Can You Provide Your Customers with Food Knowledge?
Stay informed by understanding some common misconceptions about food labeling.
Explore how food ingredients and additives play a crucial role in enhancing the taste, texture, freshness, and appearance of food
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Empower Consumers with Helpful Shopping Tips
Education about food labels is the simplest way to understand the contents of food.
Tips to Reduce Trips to the Grocery Store: How to Save Time & Money
Reduce grocery store trips, save time and money, and cut down on food waste with these tips.
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How Do Food Ingredients Support Sustainability?
How Food Ingredients Fit Into A Plant-based Diet
Food ingredients not only contribute to taste and texture of many foods, they also enhance many plant-based foods.
Food Additives: Supporting Food Affordability
Food additives play crucial roles in the production, distribution, storage, and availability of food and beverage products, including enhancing shelf-life, which also positively impacts cost and convenience
How Food Ingredients Make A More Sustainable Future
Each year, around one-third of the global food supply is wasted. Food ingredients help preserve this supply through preservation, enhance nutritional quality and many other ways.
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How Can You Address Customers’ Questions on Ultra-Processed Foods and Food Additives?
Get the Fast Facts on Ultra-Processed Foods
Foods are processed for several reasons including to prevent spoilage, ensure food safety, maintain or enhance taste and flavor, improve nutritional value, and many other reasons.
Trust the Process-es: Understanding the Truth About Processed Foods
Processed foods are those that have been altered from their natural state. Learn more about the various ways foods are processed by manufacturers and even in your own home
Why Do We Need Food Additives?
A food additive is any substance added to preserve, maintain, or enhance a food’s safety, freshness, taste, texture, and appearance. Explore the many benefits and needs for additives.
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