Articles Tagged with ''gluten-free''

Looking to extend its healthy foods portfolio, Smart Balance Inc., Paramus, N.J., said it purchased Glutino Food Group, for $66.3 million from Claridge, a Montreal investments and holding company.

Gluten-free foods marketer Schar USA Inc., Lyndhurst, N.J., expects by early next year to build a 50,000-square-foot bakery in Gloucester County, N.J.

Let them eat cake. Actually, that's just what Michel De France, Ontario, Calif., was planning when it developed three new flavors of frozen, heat-and-serve Parisian Cakes for retail and foodservice channels.

Kettle Cuisine, Chelsea, Mass., said it is the first foodservice soup processor-supplier to receive GIG® certification from The Gluten-Free Certification Organization (GFCO). The certification includes 10 Kettle Cuisine gluten-free soups.

"All of the meat. None of the mystery." That's how organic and natural foods processor Applegate Farms, Bridgewater, N.J., talks about its offerings, including a new line of gluten-free chicken nuggets.

How do you translate world taste trends into menu concepts? What’s the latest thinking on reduced sodium or gluten-free products?

The market for gluten-free foods and beverages grew at a compound rate of 28 percent from 2004 to 2008 with sales reaching an estimated $1.6 billion last year.

Last year, food and beverage processors introduced nearly 50,000 new products out of a total 122,743 new UPC offerings in U.S. grocery, drug and mass merchandise stores.

Now those on a gluten-free diet have even more entrée options in the freezercase.

With gluten intolerance on the rise in the U.S., demand for gluten-free products also is increasing. Murray’s Chicken answered this call with Gluten Free Breaded Chicken Nuggets.