________________________________________________________________________________________ Health and Wellness doughnut) demonstrate how layered textures can deliver these impacts without escalating sugar or fat levels.
Indulgence is not disappearing, but it is evolving to be more deliberate, more sensorial and with a higher nutrient for consumers. For food manufacturers and brands, this shift places greater emphasis on formulations that work harder, deliver more satisfaction through ingredient choices rather than richness or volume. Texture, flavor and protein and fiber positioning are critical to create contrast and reward while still offering a nutrient-rich experience.
This is where specialist ingredient partners such as ACI Group quietly add value by supporting brands to transform evolving expectations into products that feel modern, considered and genuinely satisfying with technical expertise, application insight and smarter ingredient solutions. ■
Greg Holgate www. acigroup. biz
Greg Holgate is Business Development Manager( Pharma) at ACI Group. ACI Group boasts an extensive portfolio of products and advisory capabilities for the food industry. Renowned and well established for its capability to supply innovative ingredients, products and raw materials into the food, pharmaceutical, chemical and road building market sectors, ACI Group has built up a loyal supply and logistical network helping it source complex and niche products as well as more universally used products.
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