The Prepared Foods Podcast

How do corporate chefs influence new product innovation? Prepared Foods profiles refrigerated foods giant Reser’s Fine Foods, Beaverton, Ore., and interviews Chef Sean Dwigans, Culinary Business Development Manager; and Chef Todd Ketterman, Culinary Manager. In this installment, Dwigans and Ketterman share how they research food trends and incorporate new flavors, tastes, textures and ingredients.

How do corporate chefs influence new product innovation? Prepared Foods profiles refrigerated foods giant Reser’s Fine Foods, Beaverton, Ore., and interviews Chef Sean Dwigans, Culinary Business Development Manager; and Chef Todd Ketterman, Culinary Manager. In this installment, Dwigans and Ketterman discuss the new product development process, timelines, and interactions with customers and their...

The crowded field of plant-based animal proteins tends to skirt the humble egg. As substitute ingredients in baking formulations are common, but very few players are tackling the breakfast table side of the equation. David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical for Prepared Foods sits down with Harold Bollaci, founder and CEO of The Vegg New York, LLC, and Rocky Shepherd, co-founder, inventor, and arti...

Prepared Foods' Executive Editor-Technical David Feder shares some new hot and spicy sauces and snacks he spotted at Natural Products Expo West 2023. The new product launches demonstrate that the category of pepper-infused foods and beverages not only is continuing to grow but is expanding in variety.

David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical for Prepared Foods media, takes a look at the trends in pasta and all things noodles, with Ann Contos, Senior Product Development Manager and Yury Krasilovsky, Executive Chef, Foodservice R&D for Barilla America, Inc., makers of pastas, pestos, and sauces since 1877.

David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical for Prepared Foods media, interviews Paul Kollesoff, co-founder of The Urgent Co., makers of industry-upsetters Brave Robot animal-free ice cream and Modern Kitchen animal-free cream cheese. Real dairy products made through the process of precision fermentation-derived real dairy proteins.

The media, and especially social media, have gone viral over a recently released study implicating the polyol sweetener erythritol in cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes. If you’ve been following this controversy surrounding erythritol, don’t panic yet. Check in first with David Feder, Executive Editor—Technical for Prepared Foods as he provides some reasoned opinion on the mat...

Executive Editor Technical David Feder interviews Zilian Cheuk, Vice-president of Product Development, and Hugo Perez, an executive for ZenB US, Inc., makers of pastas, sauces, and snacks from yellow peas on how the company’s single-ingredient yellow pea pasta is not only an excellent mimic for wheat pasta but helps promote digestive health, a key aspect of immunity.

Ethnobotanist, herbalist, and author Kerry Hughes, MSc, principal for EthnoPharm shares five botanical ingredients food and beverage developers should be paying close attention to. Some will be familiar, some will be new, and Kerry will tell us what put them on her radar and how product makers can make the best use of them.

Prepared Foods talks all things sugar reduction—from ingredients to formulation strategies—with Lindsay Wisener. Wisener is the owner and principal at WiseBev, a beverage development consultancy specializing in better-for-you beverages. In this podcast, Wisener identifies some of the most active beverage categories for sugar reduction, interesting new finished products, new ingredient options and...

In this podcast, David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical for Prepared Foods, welcomes Professor Hinnerk Von Bargen of the Culinary Institute of America, San Antonio. Professor Von Bargen, a regular contributor to Prepared Foods, shares his expertise on the trends and techniques that marry together seemingly disparate culinary styles and flavors in order to create new products with a flavor synchro...

Gwendolyn Wyard of the Organic Trade Association helps to define regenerative agriculture and how it differs from organic farming.

Nick Fallucca, Chief Product and Innovation Officer of Palermo Villa, Inc., brainstorms pizza with Prepared Foods’ Executive Editor-Technical David Feder.

Prepared Foods talks with executives at OWYN (Only What You Need), a New York City-based processor of plant-based protein and nutrition shakes and powders.

David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical for Prepared Foods, interviews Jackie Kim, product manager for Nasoya, a part of Pulmuone Foods, USA, makers of the Nasoya and Plantspired brands of tofu and plant-based foods.

Prepared Foods talks sustainable packaging design and material trends with R. Andrew Hurley, Associate Professor & Director of Entrepreneurship with Clemson University’s Department of Food, Nutrition & Packaging Sciences.

David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical for Prepared Foods, interviews Allison Rittman, research chef and expert on the art and craft of creating organic foods and beverages. Ms. Rittman gives her in-depth analysis of the challenges facing developers and processors formulating or reformulating for organic certification and the tools they need to overcome those challenges.

What do consumers want in indulgent snacking? Prepared Foods talks with Mike Senackerib, CEO for Dewey’s Bakery Inc., a Winston-Salem, N.C., company that’s growing quickly with new products, nationwide distribution and marketing. Senackerib talks strategy and brand-building solutions from his own 33-year career that’s spanned CPG giants to his own recent start-up.

In this special presentation on trends in kosher and halal certification in product development, David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical for Prepared Foods, interviews Joe Regenstein, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Food Science and head of the Kosher and Halal Food Initiative in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Dr. Regenstein is perhaps the leading authority on these...

In an effort to develop healthy and convenient snacks that address sustainability and food waste, Betty Lu of Confetti Snacks, identified rejected "misfit" vegetables as a source for product innovation. In this podcast, we discuss Lu's approach to product development and the importance of sustainability in her company's mission.

David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical for Prepared Foods interviews Dr. Devon Gholam on ingredient trends in new product development for immune support. Brought to you by EpiCor – a Cargill brand

David Feder, Prepared Foods’ Executive Editor-Technical interview’s heather Terry, CEO of GoodSam Foods, Pbc with a first-hand report on sugar reduction where it is at its trickiest: in chocolate making and cake mixes.

David Feder, Executive Editor-Technical, interviews Erhan Yildiz, PhD, director of the hydrocolloid consulting group SKC, LLC. Dr. Yildiz is one of the nation’s leading experts on hydrocolloids in food and beverage product development and an adjunct professor of food science at Rutgers University. He provides an overview on trends in gums used in making today’s food and beverage products.

Prepared Foods Editor Bob Garrison talks immunity-focused products and ingredients with Barbara Brueckner Shpizner, Vice President, Innovation at Mattson, a third-party innovation consultant in Foster City, Calif. This discussion covers recent on-trend finished food and beverage applications as well as trending ingredients for now—as well as 2023.

BAR-U-EAT Co-Founder Jason Friday discusses compostable packaging for the company’s organic snack bars and bites.