Spice & Seasoning Industry Insights
Practical insights for food manufacturers, procurement teams, product developers, private-label brands, and commercial food operations. Explore guidance on seasoning formulation, ingredient performance, sourcing, food safety, market conditions, and production at scale.
Cinnamon Beyond Ground: Understanding Quills, Quillings, Featherings and Chips
Most cinnamon reaches a finished food product as a familiar brown powder. But long before it reaches a grinder, cinnamon can move through trade in several very different forms. In the Ceylon cinnamon industry, terms such as quills, quillings, featherings, and chips…
A blend is not just a mix of ingredients.
In food manufacturing, a seasoning blend is expected to do more than combine flavors. It needs to perform consistently from batch to batch, move efficiently through production equipment, and deliver the same result in the finished product every time. The challenge is…
FDA Import Enforcement Is Putting More Attention on Contaminants in Spices
For food manufacturers, spice sourcing is not only about price, flavor, or availability. It is also about whether ingredients can move through the supply chain with the right documentation, testing, and compliance controls in place. Recent FDA import alert activity…
Ingredient Supply Chains Are Moving Away from Single-Source Purchasing
Why diversifying ingredient sources requires more than finding another available supplier For years, ingredient purchasing was often built around a relatively simple priority: identify a supplier that could consistently meet the required specifications, volume,…