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Ingredient Insights

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What's Actually in an Ingredient: A Practical Breakdown of Nutrition, Cost, and Sustainability Data Behind Every Formulation Decision

Sweet Heat Snack Formulation: What the Swicy Trend Means for CPG Ingredient Sourcing

How to Build an Internal Ingredient Database Your Whole R&D Team Will Actually Use

Journey Foods × Snowflake: Enterprise Ingredient Intelligence, Now Available on the AI Data Cloud

Journey Foods × MongoDB Atlas: Bring Your Own Database, Connect in Minutes — a self-serve integration announcement for developers connecting Journey Foods to their own MongoDB Atlas deployment

How Journey Foods Works With Kroger: What a Retail Partnership Means for Ingredient Sourcing and Private-Label Innovation

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Journey Foods' Partner Ecosystem: What Working With Kroger, NASA, SAP, and the World Economic Forum Says About the Platform

Journey Foods Partners: Kroger, NASA, SAP, and the World Economic Forum — What These Collaborations Say About Ingredient Intelligence

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What's Actually in an Ingredient: A Practical Breakdown of Nutrition, Cost, and Sustainability Data Behind Every Formulation Decision

Sweet Heat Snack Formulation: What the Swicy Trend Means for CPG Ingredient Sourcing

What Are Doritos Actually Made Of? Ingredient-by-Ingredient Breakdown for Curious Readers

Fruit Fiber Rankings: Which Fruits Actually Deliver the Most Dietary Fiber Per Serving

Sex Coffee: What Is It, What's in It, and What Formulators Can Learn From the Trend

What the 2026 Food Recall Surge Reveals About Ingredient Risk — And How CPG Teams Can Get Ahead of It

Fiber Content in Food: A CPG Formulator's Reference for High-Fiber Ingredient Choices

Stevia vs Monk Fruit: Which Natural Sweetener Works Best in CPG Formulation?

Red Dye 40 Alternatives: What Formulators Are Actually Using After the 2026 Restrictions

The Evolution of Smart Supply Chains

Shifting Global Supply Chains: Rise of Regional Markets and the Implications for Packaged Foods and Beverage Businesses

New Sustainable Alternatives to Plastic Packaging

Ingredient Insights: Neem

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Ingredient Insights: The Spectrum of New Food Dyes

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Innovative Approaches to Improve Food Product Affordability

Economic Justice in the CPG world: An Interview with CEO Riana Lynn

Sex Coffee: What Is It, What's in It, and What Formulators Can Learn From the Trend

Sugar Alternatives for Baking: A Formulator's Guide to Clean-Label Sweeteners

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Homemade Upgrade: Haribo Goldbears

Homemade Upgrade: Jell-O Instant Pudding Mix #DUP

Homemade Upgrade: Swanson Chicken Broth #DUP

Homemade Upgrade: Boxed Mashed vs Scratch-made Potatoes with Recipe

Homemade Upgrade: Instant Ramen with Recipe

Homemade Upgrade: Sabra Hummus with Recipe

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Sweet Heat Snack Formulation: What the Swicy Trend Means for CPG Ingredient Sourcing

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Journey Foods × Snowflake: Enterprise Ingredient Intelligence, Now Available on the AI Data Cloud

Journey Foods × MongoDB Atlas: Bring Your Own Database, Connect in Minutes — a self-serve integration announcement for developers connecting Journey Foods to their own MongoDB Atlas deployment

How Journey Foods Works With Kroger: What a Retail Partnership Means for Ingredient Sourcing and Private-Label Innovation

Why Is Food Supply Chain Management Important? A Plain Answer for CPG Teams

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Frozen Food Recall June 2026: What's Happening, What to Check, and What It Says About the Food System

The Strait of Hormuz Just Moved Your Q3 Gross Margin: Oil across the supply chain

CNBC Feature: AI startups want to crack open the recipe book in Big Food’s test kitchens

Navigating the Complex World of Ingredients With AI - By Oreate AI

New Product Feature: Biodiversity Scoring

Story: Stuck at Sea - Predictive Logistics Auto-Swap

What's Actually in an Ingredient: A Practical Breakdown of Nutrition, Cost, and Sustainability Data Behind Every Formulation Decision

Sweet Heat Snack Formulation: What the Swicy Trend Means for CPG Ingredient Sourcing

What Are Doritos Actually Made Of? Ingredient-by-Ingredient Breakdown for Curious Readers

Fruit Fiber Rankings: Which Fruits Actually Deliver the Most Dietary Fiber Per Serving

Sex Coffee: What Is It, What's in It, and What Formulators Can Learn From the Trend

What the 2026 Food Recall Surge Reveals About Ingredient Risk — And How CPG Teams Can Get Ahead of It

Fiber Content in Food: A CPG Formulator's Reference for High-Fiber Ingredient Choices

Stevia vs Monk Fruit: Which Natural Sweetener Works Best in CPG Formulation?

Red Dye 40 Alternatives: What Formulators Are Actually Using After the 2026 Restrictions

The Evolution of Smart Supply Chains

Shifting Global Supply Chains: Rise of Regional Markets and the Implications for Packaged Foods and Beverage Businesses

New Sustainable Alternatives to Plastic Packaging

Ingredient Insights: Neem

New AI-powered nutrition scoring system aims to improve health equity across the US

Ingredient Insights: The Spectrum of New Food Dyes

Ingredient Insights: Food Dye History and Opportunities - Inside Bans and AI Alternatives

Innovative Approaches to Improve Food Product Affordability

Economic Justice in the CPG world: An Interview with CEO Riana Lynn

Sex Coffee: What Is It, What's in It, and What Formulators Can Learn From the Trend

Sugar Alternatives for Baking: A Formulator's Guide to Clean-Label Sweeteners

Homemade Upgrade: Cacio e Pepe from Trader Joe's

Homemade Upgrade: Haribo Goldbears

Homemade Upgrade: Jell-O Instant Pudding Mix #DUP

Homemade Upgrade: Swanson Chicken Broth #DUP

Homemade Upgrade: Boxed Mashed vs Scratch-made Potatoes with Recipe

Homemade Upgrade: Instant Ramen with Recipe

Homemade Upgrade: Sabra Hummus with Recipe

Atlanta's First Food A.I. Hackathon: What Happened When We Opened the API

Digital Tools Can Strengthen Transparency, Traceability, and Trust In The Future of Food

Digital Futures: A Night of Dance and Discovery

The FDA Making Big Changes

Riana Lynn: Partner Across the World, Across Genders for Food Change

Naturally Austin Women in CPG Summit - A Thanks from Riana at Journey Foods

Journey Foods Launches JourneyLabs & New Features As It Scales Its Quest to Simplify Food Innovation

Investing in Food Companies with Generative AI: A Winning Strategy for Tech Entrepreneurs

Ingredient Insights: How Recipes Have Evolved Since the 1970s

Journey Foods × MongoDB Atlas: Bring Your Own Database, Connect in Minutes — a self-serve integration announcement for developers connecting Journey Foods to their own MongoDB Atlas deployment

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What's Actually in an Ingredient: A Practical Breakdown of Nutrition, Cost, and Sustainability Data Behind Every Formulation Decision

Sweet Heat Snack Formulation: What the Swicy Trend Means for CPG Ingredient Sourcing

How to Build an Internal Ingredient Database Your Whole R&D Team Will Actually Use

Journey Foods × Snowflake: Enterprise Ingredient Intelligence, Now Available on the AI Data Cloud

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